Vanessa YEUNG-Tsang

Biography

Vanessa YEUNG-Tsang is a Hong Kong model, television and radio host, writer and image consultant, born in Shanghai in 1972. She graduated from St. Mary's Anglo-Chinese School and Lingnan University in Hong Kong, where she studied business administration. She began appearing in advertisements in junior high school through a friend, then won a supermodel contest in 1995 and launched her modeling career. Designer Vivienne Tam invited her to walk in New York, after which she signed with the Ford modeling agency and moved to New York. She regularly attended Paris, London and Milan Fashion Weeks and walked for brands including Hermes, Chanel and Sophia Kokosaiaki. She later returned to Hong Kong and participated in the Hong Kong Fashion Week and various brand shows. She entered television in 2003 by hosting an information program on ATV, then took part in a cooking show in 2006, finishing second. She hosted several lifestyle, food and information programs on TVB. She has also been a columnist since 1996, writing for local and international publications such as Elle, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan. She published her first book in 2002, an autobiography titled 2555 Days, recounting her seven years as a model, and a second book in 2012 about Michelin restaurants, which won second place at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in 2013.