Hanoi, Vietnam
Mai Phuong
Vintage & Romantic Editorial Model
About Me
Every November, for three short weeks, the fields on the edge of Hanoi turn white with chamomile - and that is where a photographer first found me, seventeen years old, holding my grandmother's lace parasol and completely unaware I was being photographed. That accidental frame ran in a wedding magazine, and I've been chasing the same soft light ever since.
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Experience
A selection of recent work
My work is unashamedly romantic: heirloom dresses, hand-made lace, flower fields at golden hour. Clients book me for campaigns that need tenderness with a spine - bridal houses, silk ateliers, fragrance stories. I collect vintage gowns the way other people collect books, I know how to make a hundred-year-old silhouette breathe on camera, and I have never once been outworked by a prop.
Latest
Journal
30 November 2025
Three Weeks of White Flowers
Hanoi's chamomile season is short, crowded, and impossible to reschedule. Notes from the fields that started my career - and still set my calendar.
5 September 2025
The Parasol Is Doing Half the Work
My grandmother's lace parasol has appeared in more campaigns than most models. A tribute to the best scene partner I've ever had.
12 June 2025
Mending Dresses, Mending Pace
I restore the vintage gowns I model - slow evenings of thread, tea, and hundred-year-old seams. It turns out to be the best training there is.
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Vintage & Romantic Editorial Model. Based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Interested in working together?
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