BEIJING -
In November, Mrs. Maye Musk was at the Shanghai store opening of Chinese mattress brand Aise Baobao, for which she is a global brand ambassador.
Earlier in 2024, she walked the runway for local apparel brand JNBY in Hangzhou and was at an event in the financial capital Shanghai for Fila, the sportswear brand owned by China's Anta Sports Products.
Since early 2023, she has been a regular visitor to the country for speaking engagements and modeling jobs, starring in advertisements promoting consumer electronics firm Oppo's popular Find X6 Pro smartphone, and partnering with handbag brand Oleada on a limited collection.
The popularity of the silver-haired 76-year-old is surging on Chinese social media, too, with numerous posts on Instagram-like platform Xiaohongshu, where she has some 576,000 followers, generating hundreds of comments and thousands of likes.
Her popularity in China took off in 2020, when her memoir A Woman Makes A Plan: Advice For A Lifetime Of Adventure, Beauty, And Success was published in Chinese and became especially popular with female readers.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 24, 2024 من The Straits Times.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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