{"id":1005,"date":"2023-10-24T03:59:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/why-are-vs-models-denied-visas-for-china\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T03:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:59:05","slug":"why-are-vs-models-denied-visas-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/why-are-vs-models-denied-visas-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are VS models Denied Visas For China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The 2017 Victoria&#8217;s Secret Fashion Show is just days away from filming, but for some up-and-coming models, the dream of walking the glittering runway alongside the Angels in Shanghai is over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2017 Victoria&#8217;s Secret Fashion Show is just days away from filming, but for some up-and-coming models, the dream of walking the glittering runway alongside the Angels&nbsp;in Shanghai is over. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20171115174152.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fj9JyREJwJ5ZnarJu17fnorgbKQs?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><font>Models walk in the 2016 Victoria&#8217;s Secret Fashion Show. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four models have reportedly been denied the requisite Chinese visas, according to online&nbsp;fan accounts: Julia Belyakova, Kate Grigorieva and&nbsp;Irina Sharipova from Russia,&nbsp;as well as Dasha Khlystun from Ukraine. Instagram user @VSModelSpain posted a screenshot of a conversation with Khylstun to their Stories in which the model confirms that she will not be walking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20171115174156.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fmgn8hqZuIDnXXnHqRk2_Xy-8Ggc?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"640\" height=\"1138\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><font>Photo: Screenshot\/@vsmodelspain<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not immediately clear why China would deny the visas for the Russian and Ukrainian models; as recently as July, relations between China and Russia were reportedly at their &#8220;best time in history,&#8221; according to one Chinese news agency. In October, a 14-year-old model died after collapsing at a fashion show at Shanghai Fashion Week. Russian authorities are currently investigating her death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are rumors that other models are reportedly affected by the visa issue, and many outraged Chinese fans are calling for model Gigi Hadid to be denied a visa for a &#8220;racist&#8221; video&nbsp;she posted to social media earlier in 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAADUlEQVQImWNgYGBgAAAABQABh6FO1AAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20171115174200.gif\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fl-zmr79Igiq3HL8aD7RLghGok62?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><font>Photo: Baidu<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: start;\">Source: Fashionista<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gic.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2017 Victoria&#8217;s Secret Fashion Show is just days away from filming, but for some up-and-coming models, the dream of walking the glittering runway alongside the Angels in Shanghai is &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}