Eva Huang Sheng-Yi--dramatic portraits

Eva Huang Sheng-Yi could be a Spanish countess in the court of Phillip IV sitting for a portrait by Velasquez.

The retoucher should have taken a bit more care with her lips; they look to me to be a bit too big and too red.

Gotta love the cheekbones, though.

Xinhua

Eva Huang: a photographic calling card for action roles in Hollywood

Eva Huang emerges from the smoke with some vicious looking weapons, leather hotpants and killer boots.

She also shows she can pretend to throw a knife while standing on one foot, part of the skill set the aspiring action actress is expected to have.

Xinhau

Eva Huang Sheng-Yi looking delightful at Ifeng

Eva Huang Sheng-Yi dropped in at Ifeng to discuss "White Snake" and pick up a plaque. She said she didn't have a double for the martial arts scenes in the movie.

Ifeng

Huang Sheng-Yi at "Contgagion" while Zhao Tao hits the Lancia Cafe

Huang Sheng-Yi showed her third look at Venice on the red carpet for "Contagion" which google auto-translated to "Infectious Disease", a more foreboding but less catchy title. Nothing wrong with this long, loose fitting, semi-transparent gown, just nothing terribly special. Terrific make-up and a notable ponytail.

The photographer in the short skirt and purple flats is getting one hell of a picture of the train of this dress.

The slug on this image at Zimbio is "ponytail detail" which sums it up pretty well.

Huang Sheng-Yi is probably the only actress to wear stripper platform heels twice (at least) on the red carpet at a major film festival.

Whatever odd reason she has for bringing these shoes to Venice it isn't comfort: look at the bruises, especially on her instep. An artist may have to suffer for her art but not this is silly.

Zhao Tao was at the Lancia Cafe which is the Venice Film Festival version of Rick's Cafe Americain--everyone shows up there eventually. She wore a brown one shoulder column dress, a good complement to her more formal blue earlier.

Someone just out of the frame whispered "Don't forget to show the accessories".

A bit of info on the Lancia Cafe here.
Zimbio;Ifeng

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

This just in: Huang Shengyi has no gay friends

Red carpet, White Snake, clear shoes. A bad mix.

Apparently Huang Shengyi has no one close to her that would say "You are not wearing those cheap stripper heels anywhere and especially at a huge movie premier where thousands of camera will be focused on you."

Maybe she thought the long dress would cover her shoes completely. No such luck.

Contrasting shoes--Huang Shengyi and Charlene Choi

The big question: Why did Huang Shengyi have insane shoes like that in Venice under any circumstances?

I hope that she got a good deal on them. Pleaser has them on their clearance page.

Zimbio and Sina through Dennis Lee.