Chu Wong in 'Chrysalis & Butterflies' for Vogue China December 2018, Lensed by Sharif Hamza

THEN: In December 2018, Chu Wong was two years into her rising model career. Daniela Paudice styled Chu Wong in ‘Chrysalis & Butterflies’, lensed by Sharif Hamza [IG] for Vogue China’s December issue.

NOW: We fast-forward to the January 2024 issue of Vogue China, where Chu Wong [IG] shares her cover-story news with fans and followers.

New York photographer Sharif Hamza — who captured this 2018 fashion story — is very successful and doing fabulous work as a contributing creative director at Vogue Philippines.

He shares on his IG very poignant thoughts about being forced to wait a longer time in 2004 than fellow photographers, to get his US residency visa. Hamza felt ‘targeted’ in our post September 11 world.

In my own small way, I hope to contribute to this conversation at a very difficult time in America today — because there are two sides to every story. And that includes my own September 11 story. ~ Anne