Raven Tao, (titled ''Lady Allom)'' is a Eurasian model, media personality and entrepreneur based in Hong Kong.
. "Raven Tao isn't your average model, actress, TV host and radio personality—she also has 'real estate agent' and 'law student' on her résumé." ''HK Magazine''.

Career

Tao modelled prolifically across Asia in her teens, a cover girl of

Harpers Bazaar ''Harper's Bazaar'' is an American monthly women's fashion magazine. It was first published in New York City on November 2, 1867, as the weekly ''Harper's Bazar''. ''Harper's Bazaar'' is published by Hearst and considers itself to be the st ...

and other publications. She starred as the face of international advertising campaigns for Sprite, Escada Laurel,

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Sunsilk Sunsilk is a British hair care brand produced by the company Unilever. The brand was introduced in 1954 in the UK and available in most countries globally. It is a hair care brand in Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, an ...

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Ferrero Rocher Ferrero Rocher () is a chocolate and hazelnut confectionery, introduced in 1982 and produced by the Italian company Ferrero. Michele Ferrero is credited as the product's creator. Each Ferrero Rocher ball is covered in foil and placed into a pap ...

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Chow Sang Sang Chow Sang Sang Holdings International Limited, or Chow Sang Sang Group, doing business as Chow Sang Sang jewelry Company Limited or Chow Sang Sang (), is a jewelry company with its corporate headquarters in the Chow Sang Sang Building () in Kow ...

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, Apex Beauty,

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, Qui Mei, Claire TV, MW-Giorgio Fedon and numerous other global brands. Tao starred in multiple international campaigns for

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and

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, and a semi-global campaign for Olay Total Effects. Tao’s media presenter roles include TV, onstage, radio and celebrity interviews. She hosted

Rockit Hong Kong Music Festival Rockit Hong Kong Music Festival was held each autumn from 2003 to 2006 in Hong Kong's Victoria Park. The event was created by Nimal Jayawardena (AKNJ Fujii and Didier Li of Matrix Entertainment Group. 2003 The first Rockit festival, 25–26 O ...

2004-2006, was radio DJ & producer for

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Singapore’s Top 40 radio station

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in 2007, and presented on

AXN AXN is a pay television channel owned by Sony Pictures Television, which was first launched in September 1997 in Asia. Local versions have since been launched in several parts of the world, including Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Funded th ...

and

HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is ba ...

Singapore. Tao hosted on

Fox Movies Premium Fox Movies (formerly Star Movies; and Fox Movies Premium) was a Southeast Asian movie network owned by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific, subsidiaries of Disney International Operations that was originally from the Walt Disney Company. It has first- ...

and Channel V International’s SPLASH Vol. 7, 8 and 9. She emceed the W Hong Kong 5th Anniversary global broadcast event in 2013, the 2014

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series Tokyo Luxe and was an

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for luxury realtors Engel & Voelkers HK in '' The Apartment 2013''. Tao has acted and cameoed in movies. She filmed with director Yick- Sum Poon on Wong Chi Wai’s music video 'Building Bridges, Fixing Roads', and starred in Poon’s avant-garde short film on SARS, titled ''STILL'' which aired at the

Torino Film Festival The Torino Film Festival (also called the Turin Film Festival, TFF) is an international film festival held annually in Turin, Italy. Held every November, it is the second largest film festival in Italy, following the Venice Film Festival. It was f ...

. Tao has a guest appearance in acclaimed director

Ann Hui Ann Hui On-wah, (; born 23 May 1947) is a film director, producer, screenwriter and actress from Hong Kong who is one of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave. She is known for her films about social issues in Ho ...

's 2010 film, All About Love. and has a leading role in the 2012 movie ''Reunited in Malaysia'' (''Wiedersehen in Malaysia'', as ''Raven Hanson''), where she is dubbed in German.
.“Raven Hanson. IMDB” In 2015 Tao founded Hong Kong's first luxury corsetry brand, Pearls & Arsenic which featured on magazine covers and in multiple seasons of Asia’s Next Top Model.

Background

Tao is titled Lady Allom by marriage to financier Chevalier Commandeur Zak Allom. Her mother is ethnically Chinese-Nepalese and her father is English-Polish. She was raised in Hong Kong, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and studied

law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vari ...

Charity

Raven Tao has worked with charitable causes including "Bullets For Beauty",
." Bullets for Beauty is a unique commercial project devoted to creation of fashion objects and apparel including jewelry and apparel created through utilization of used military ammunition" which supports local artisans in war torn countries by recycling military ammunition, youth empowerment program "Project Share"""." Project Share is a Hong Kong registered non-profit organization aimed at connecting and empowering Hong Kong youth" and "Liberty Asia",
."Liberty Asia is a Hong Kong registered charitable organization made up of a group of dedicated professionals from different industries, united by the common goal to provide new solutions to change the way slavery and human trafficking is addressed." a charity devoted to prevention of human trafficking. Tao is the poster face and an interviewee of the 2017 documentary on women in media, The Beauty Machine.

References

External links

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Raven Tao (Instagram)
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