South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Model from Congo takes on Asian beauty standards in Hong Kong’s fashion industry” – below is their description.
As a Congolese model in Hong Kong, Harmony “Anne-Marine” Ilunga found it hard to meet beauty and body expectations in Asia. Despite being rejected by several modelling agencies, the 22-year-old has remained unfettered. In 2018, Ilunga founded her own agency that welcomes male and female models of all skin tones and sizes. She has also started an online shop for ethnic minority and refugee designers to sell their products.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.