Fashion models grapple with China's love for 'tall, light and skinny'


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Model Harmony Anne-Marie Ilunga (left), who moved to Hong Kong as a child refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, believes that representation matters. Photo: AFP

As a young black woman modelling in Hong Kong, Harmony Anne-Marie Ilunga rarely saw anyone who looked like her in the magazines.

Now the 22-year-old is trying to change that, one model at a time.

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