# Connie Chiu

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{{Short description|Fashion model and jazz musician}}
{{Distinguish|Connie Chan Po-chu}}
{{BLP one source|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name            = Connie Chiu
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| birth_date      = {{birth year and age|1969}}
| birth_place     = [British Hong Kong](/source/British_Hong_Kong)
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| height          = {{height|ft=5|in=6}}
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| website        = [http://www.conniechiu.com/ ConnieChiu.com]
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'''Connie Chiu''' (born 1969) is a [fashion model](/source/Model_(person)) and jazz musician known for being the world's first fashion model with [albinism](/source/Albinism_in_humans).<ref name=SCMP>{{Cite news|url=https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2117293/worlds-first-albino-model-connie-chiu-growing-kowloon-and|title=World's first albino model Connie Chiu on growing up in Kowloon and diversity on the catwalk|last=Wilson|first=David|date=2017-10-30|work=South China Morning Post|access-date=2019-01-30}}</ref>

Chiu was born in [British Hong Kong](/source/British_Hong_Kong) and grew up in [Kowloon](/source/Kowloon).<ref name=SCMP /> The congenital absence of pigmentation in her skin and hair, makes them sensitive to the sun. To avoid Chiu's exposure to Hong Kong's intensive sun, her family moved to [Sweden](/source/Sweden) when she was seven years old.<ref name=SCMP />

Connie Chiu was first introduced to modeling at age 21, when her sister asked her to become a model at one of her final shows.<ref name=SCMP /> After sending a black-and-white photograph to French fashion designer [Jean-Paul Gaultier](/source/Jean-Paul_Gaultier), he invited her to model at his autumn/winter 1994 show.<ref name=SCMP /> At age 25, Chiu began modeling for [fashion photographer](/source/fashion_photographer)s such as [Terry Richardson](/source/Terry_Richardson), [Paul Burley](/source/Paul_Burley), [Heidi Niemala](/source/Heidi_Niemala) and [Morten Smidt](/source/Morten_Smidt).<ref name=SCMP /> Chiu later studied [journalism](/source/journalism).

Chiu starred in the music video for the single "Stalker" by [Recoil](/source/Recoil_(band)), the solo project of [Depeche Mode](/source/Depeche_Mode) member [Alan Wilder](/source/Alan_Wilder).

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.conniechiu.com/ Connie Chiu official website]
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Category:1969 births
Category:Living people
Category:People with albinism
Category:Hong Kong female models
Category:Swedish female models
Category:Chinese female models
Category:Immigrants to Sweden
Category:Hong Kong emigrants

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