Huang Sheng-Yi and Charlene Choi on the Venice red carpet for "The Sorcerer and the White Snake"

Huang Sheng-Yi and Charlene Choi, accompanied by Jet Li and director Tony Ching Siu-Tung hit the red carpet for the Venice International Film Festival premiere of "The Sorcerer and the White Snake".

Charlene works her split skirt

Huang Sheng-Yi is every inch the movie star in her translucent, highly decorated gown...

if you ignore her shoes.

Another view. Huang Sheng-Yi's dress, while it left parts of itself all over the read carpet, gave her a perfect silhouette.

Some detail from a very painstakingly constructed dress including the appliqued images on the translucent skirt and all the hand-worked detail on the corset-like top.

Charlene seems less than thrilled to be there--click through the 22 images of Charlene Choi on the Zimbio link below. She seems tentative and certainly not happy, particularly in the close-ups.

Ifeng; CRI; Sina; Zimbio