Eva Chen On How Instagram Made The Fashion World More Friendly

by MR Magazine Staff

Eva Chen is not what you’d expect from someone who Instagrams a lot of photographs of their expensively shod feet. Then again, what did you expect? Social media, of which Instagram is currently the fastest growing platform (with over 400 million users, 14 million of them in the UK), has been accused of encouraging many evils, the most dismaying of which appears to be self-obsession. “There are a lot of people on Instagram desperately trying to keep up with the Joneses,” concedes Chen, somewhat quaintly. These days those people are probably more interested in keeping up with the Kardashians, or perhaps with Chen herself, whose fringe-y bob and penchant for wearing striking, furry (or “Big Bird” as she calls them) coats, have garnered her 548,000 followers and counting. Read more at The Telegraph.