The Asia"s Next Top model alum is the first Singaporean mã sản phẩm to walk for Gucci on the international fashion week circuit, & stars in fashion label Pomelo"s latest campaign. Here are 8 things to know about her.
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The Asia's Next Top model alum is the first Singaporean mã sản phẩm to walk for Gucci on the international fashion week circuit, & stars in fashion label Pomelo's latest campaign. Here are 8 things to know about her.
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She’s not a conventional beauty, but when Layla Ong stares at you from a styled photo, all soulful almond-shaped eyes, razor-sharp jawline, luscious lips và long limbs, you begin lớn understand why her unusual look is so in demand. & we’re not just talking cover of local magazines demand, but Gucci show at Paris Fashion Week demand. Layla’s the first Singaporean mã sản phẩm to walk for Gucci on the international fashion week circuit, and just shot a new chiến dịch for Gucci Beauty. She’s also strutted for Dolce và Gabbana, MSGM, Rodarte & more in New York, London, Milan và Paris.She may be tasting sweet success right now, but the 24-year-old is taking it all in her long-legged stride. When 8days.sg asks in our email interview if she’s the most successful alumni of Asia’s Next Top model Cycle 5, despite being one of the first contestants lớn get the boot that season, she demurs, “I dare not take the title. Everyone in the show has been successful in their own way.”In between living it up in fashion capitals, she found time to lớn shoot a dreamy Fall 19 chiến dịch for Pomelo, a popular Asian fast fashion label with headquarters in Thailand. Here are a few things you should know about Layla Ong.
1 of 9 #1: “If you never try, you will never know” — that’s the best advice she’s been given.
Layla has this khổng lồ tell young girls chasing their dreams: “As the cliche goes: If you never try, you will never know. Thinking about sending that CV? Send it. Thinking about that audition? Go for it. Thinking about a change in career? vày it.”
2 of 9 #2: Being eliminated early from Asia’s Next Top mã sản phẩm didn’t kill her modelling career.
She was the fourth out of 14 girls lớn get kicked out of Cycle 5 in 2017, but she didn’t curl into a ball và give up. She tells us, “As
3 of 9 #3: She turns negative comments into something positive.
The modelling industry is infamously brutal. But Layla has turned criticisms into ways to improve herself. “It actually spurs me on, and I take
4 of 9 #4: People have said mean things to lớn her, but she didn’t give up.
The worst thing Layla has heard about herself? “You look lượt thích a lizard.” The best? “You are so beautiful.”
5 of 9 #5: She’s humble in the face of success.
When we ask if she’s the most successful alumni of Asia’s Next Top mã sản phẩm Cycle 5, she takes the chance khổng lồ praise her cycle-mates, saying, “I dare not take the title. Everyone in the show has been successful in their own way — like in hosting, being in pageants or being a KOL (Key Opinion Leader, or influencer). For example, Tu
“The travelling always gets me — going around the globe for work, you get lớn see a piece of everything. But contrary lớn popular opinion, modelling is not all glitz & glamour. Behind the short-lived fame are long hours of waiting, days of pending options and years of up-keeping yourself. Và not khổng lồ forget the number of rejections you get in your face. You have it all only when you turn into a supermodel.”
“My fave piece from the collection is the đen ruffled floral maxi dress (seen in the first pic in this story), & I absolutely adore the moment when I was shot with one of the bunnies owned by Nicole Lee (fellow ASNTM alumni from Season 2 who is also the art director for the Pomelo campaign).
This is the thought that goes through Layla’s head when she poses for a shoot or walks down the runway: “Be fierce be fierce be fierce!!!”
The collection modeled by Layla is available at www.pomelofashion.com and at Pomelo"s flagship store at #B1-23, 313