When she graduated from junior high school, Li Dongtian suddenly told her father that she wanted to learn hairdressing. The idea must have been particularly strange at first, but although my father was sorry, he didn't stop it. With such a sharp turn, he became a child who didn't have to cross the "wooden bridge" of the college entrance examination, and his life experience was rewritten.
It was noon in summer. He came out of school and went out to buy a popsicle. His head only has a very avant-garde hairstyle, that is, the sides are shaved short, but the top of his head is long and messy. In other people's words, it is "the hair has not been cut." Of course, this hairstyle should be nothing today, but walking on the streets of China more than ten years ago is enough to stand out from the crowd. In addition, Li Dongtian was young, handsome and sunny, so he was caught by a cyclist.
The man stopped the car, turned around and asked him what he did and whether he wanted to shoot advertisements.
Li Dongtian thought, even if he met a liar, otherwise how could he have a chance to bump his head in the street? He asked people, where to shoot? The other party said, Asian Games Village! Li Dongtian thought, my family lives in Wukesong and I don't know how far it is from the Asian Games Village. You don't say! However, the young man really had nothing to be afraid of, so he wrote his phone number to others at the request of the man.
Unexpectedly, after more than 20 days, that person really called and really asked him to shoot an advertisement. He arrived at the scene at the appointed time. At first glance, four men and four women are young enough. When his own hair is done, he will give it to other actors. Hairdressing is his specialty. Seeing that the stylist was too busy, he offered to help. Unexpectedly, people looked at his hair and nodded and said, yes, your craft is good. In this way, he unexpectedly left a good impression on others. The advertisement didn't go well, but after that, several people in the film factory got to know the young man and he was introduced to Gekko to do his hair.
At that time, Gekko had just returned from abroad and was not satisfied with the domestic hairdresser. He immediately fell in love with Li Dongtian's hairstyle. I not only asked him to do it many times, but also introduced him to Pan Hong, Ding Jiali, Lin Li and other big stars. This contact suddenly gave Li Dongtian a chance to get close to the film. At the age of 65,438+09, he became a makeup artist for several films and met many big stars.
When Li Dongtian was 2 1 year old, a "pretty girl" made him famous overnight.
I met Li by chance. When he was a model, he met Li, who was a guest, so they met. After Li became the director of pink lady, his requirements were strict and perfect, and several makeup stylists in the film factory were not satisfied. In this case, Li was recommended. At that time, Li Dongtian people were still very young, and even Li Xiaowan was not completely sure about him. Li took him home to see the demo, let him try it, and specifically told him to take the work seriously.
I carefully studied the image and role of the protagonist and Cai Feihe, and also put forward some ideas for Li. Ten days later, Li made up and took photos, and made a decision to make him the chief makeup artist. Later, he worked as a makeup artist for Li's TV series Thunderstorm.
The release of two works, especially "pink lady", won the international prize, and all aspects of the response were good. This achievement made Li Dongtian famous overnight. He was really a teenager at that time, and the road ahead was smooth.
At this time, Li Dongtian suddenly prepared to go to the United States to study visual arts. This time, even the father didn't agree, because he felt that his son had developed well in China, and he had gained a lot of fame and ability at an early age, and there were too many opportunities in his hand. It's hard to say what will happen in the future.
But Li Dongtian went her own way and stayed in the United States for two years.
During this period, he watched many fashion shows, photo exhibitions and MTV, and his young brain absorbed all kinds of new things like a sponge. After studying, he worked in a hair salon to earn money, and at the same time, he kept learning and exploring new styles through this. Those days were hard. A young man who gave up and went abroad successfully, no one knows you, let alone your qualifications. Only his own skills can make him stand firm. However, a person's efforts will not be ignored by God after all. Soon, the most powerful hairdresser in the salon also appointed Li Dongtian to do his hair. If opportunity is very important to a person's success, then Li Dongtian always thinks that ability is the most important factor of success. 1996 in the second half of the year, Li Dongtian came back from the United States. He has really grown up and has a brand-new concept that he didn't have before going abroad.
1997, when others had no brand awareness at all, Li Dongtian thought of making a company like "Dong Tian Modeling", and it took him several years to truly establish a brand. It is precisely because few makeup artists in China have brand awareness that it really affects society. This has become a road full of unknowns and explorations, and also shows Li Dongtian's unique pioneering consciousness.
When the name "Dong Tian Modeling" was adopted, the word "image design" was quite popular in China, but Li Dongtian didn't want others to call him an image designer, but called himself a stylist, hence his company's name.
After returning to China, Li Dongtian was very interested in graphic design. He admitted that during this period, the person who had the greatest influence on his work was Juanzi, a fashion photographer, because she hired a makeup artist at the request of a graphic designer, which was a new perspective for herself.
The appearance of Lv Yan is of great significance to Li Dongtian, and people are still talking about it with tongue twisters like "Lv Yan made Li Dongtian and Li Dongtian made Lv Yan".
When Li Dongtian met Lv Yan, Dong Tian Model Company had just been established, and he needed to find an image spokesperson to take a group of wedding photos. Li Dongtian's friends recommended two models to him, one is Wang Haizhen, who is also famous today, and the other is Lv Yan.
At that time, Wang Haizhen was already a minor celebrity, and Lv Yan was a contestant who had just come to Beijing from a mine in Jiangxi province and lost the model contest, so he could only do odd jobs on the fashion stage. However, when Li Dongtian first met Lv Yan for an interview that day, she was shocked by her flat nose, round face, small eyes, thick lips, high cheekbones and short chin, and could not help but say to her, "You are so beautiful." Lv Yan joked with him afterwards and said, "You're not scolding me, are you?" ?
Lv Yan let Li Dongtian's inspiration come unexpectedly. He designed a series of models for her, including a freckle makeup model with high photogenic rate, and put it at the door of the company. But almost everyone said he made a mistake, saying that this photo was bad for the company's image. Even when they go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to apply for hanging a huge poster of Lv Yan on Wangfujing Street, people will ask, if you want to hang it, you have to hang it beautifully. Can't you find a better model?
During that time, Lv Yan's development was not very good, and few people appreciated her. But Li Dongtian always told her that having a special face will be popular in the new century and you will be famous all over the world! Lv Yan, this sounds like a fantasy. After the Spring Festival in 2000, Lv Yan called Li Dongtian and told him that his future here was uncertain and he wanted to go back to his hometown in Jiangxi. At that time, Li Dongtian encouraged her to stay in Beijing again. Soon, Li Dongtian's words really came true. Lv Yan met a staff member of a French modeling company in a hotel and fell in love with him at first sight. Li Dongtian came to help her as a translator, helped her go abroad, successfully sent Lv Yan to Paris, visited her in Paris, and accompanied her through some modeling companies and performance venues. 165438+ 10. In October, Lv Yan, a girl who subverted the traditional Asian aesthetic, returned to China to participate in the World Supermodel Competition and won the runner-up and became the best model in China.
Li Dongtian became famous, and countless stars asked him to be a model. Gong Li, Liu Xiaoqing, Chen Chong, Rosamund Kwan, Christy Chung, Sophia Kao, Gui Yalei, Na Ying, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Xu, Li Bingbing, Fan Bingbing, Hashimoto Li Xiang, Qu Ying, Zhang Fengyi, Zhao Wen, Mao Ning, Hu Jun, Liu Ye, Su Youpeng and Hu Bing all asked him to do makeup modeling.
When Zhao Wei was introduced to him, "Princess Pearl" had been popular all over the country, but when Li Dongtian came back from abroad, he didn't know the play or who Zhao Wei was. I nodded politely when I met him, but I was confused. But Zhao Wei said that he had heard the name of Li Dongtian a long time ago.
Many outsiders Li Dongtian didn't know met Sun Jihai on the plane, and his assistant mentioned it to him. He also asked, what does this man do? It's more interesting to know Yang Chen. He flew from Beijing to Shanghai to shoot an advertisement for Gillette. Early in the morning, he asked the assistant who was the model today. He was told that his name was Yang Chen and he was an athlete. Li Dongtian thought, aren't all male models athletes? At lunch, he asked people, I heard what sports you play. Yang Chen said, I play football. Li Dongtian asked, where to kick. Yang Chen said it was in Germany. Li Dongtian thought, that this person should be a little level? Just say, "Hey, you're still a professional player, so you might play well." Yang Chen also implicitly said, I'm fine.
This has become the laughingstock of everyone, Li Dongtian thought. Maybe from Yang Chen's point of view, he doesn't know who I am, does he? The result is really like this. Yang Chen later asked him, "I heard that you are famous in this industry, aren't you?"
Big names don't know big names, but majors are really professional. This is the so-called interlacing like a mountain. Li Dongtian said that he is narcissistic and belongs to a super narcissist, so he has a slogan: narcissism is an attitude towards life.
He said that he appreciates himself, likes himself and likes beauty, and will spend a lot of money on clothes that look good and suit him.
1990 graduated from Monita Beauty & Hairdressing School, and stayed as a teacher for one year after graduation. Since 199 1, she has officially entered the literary and art circles in China, and participated in the work of the chief makeup artist for many film and television works. Now I live in Beijing and new york and work in new york, Paris, London, Hongkong and Japan. He used to be a special lecturer in the graduation courses of makeup in Beijing Film Academy in 1998 and 1999.
He is the chief stylist of MTV festivals over the years, the only domestic stylist who served as a guest of LycraFashionAwards, and even won the China Makeup Artist's Outstanding Achievement Award in the Century. He is the judge and modeling consultant of many beauty contests and model contests in Chinese mainland, the judge of L 'Oreal, and the chairman of the earliest fashion modeling company established in China. 1June, 1999, he established Dong Tian Modeling Studio in his own name.