2017年12月27日
今年的维密，多了一个熟悉又陌生的身影。
In this year’s Victoria’s Secret Show, we saw someone familiar but also distant.
熟悉，是因为她曾经是维密的一大台柱。
She looks familiar, because she has been a major pillar of this show.
陌生，是因为她曾猛然地从这个舞台淡出。
She seems distant, because she once disappeared from this stage all of a sudden.
许多新晋的维密粉丝可能还并不知道她。
Many new fans of Victoria’s Secret may not even know her.
它就是被大家称为 KK 的卡丽·克劳斯 。
She is Karlie Kloss. And people call her KK.
今年的秀上，她以一袭空灵的白发和一身精灵女王式的着装艳压全场。
On this year’s show, she outshone everyone on the stage with her spiritual white hair and that outfit as an elf queen.
1992年出生的 KK，虽然年仅25岁，却已经是维密的多年御用天使。
KK was born in 1992. Though as young as 25, she has been a favorite model of Victoria’s Secret for many years.
同时也是维密签的第一个90后，而且位列“世界超模排名top 30”。
She is also the first post-90s who got signed by VS. And she is among the Top 30 Supermodels of the World.
KK 在2015年的T台收入高达500万美元，也就是人民币千万级，相当于中国好多白领300年的工资。
In 2015, KK’s income from the stage reached as high as 5 million dollars, which means tens of millions of RMB and equals to 300 years’ worth of salary of many ordinary Chinese white-collar workers.
在福布斯杂志公布的“全球最赚钱超模榜”中排名第11。
In Forbes’ List of Models with the Highest Incomes, she ranked 11th.
不过 KK 并没有止步于此，她深知脸蛋和青春是靠不住的。所以坚定地选择在这个看脸的行当成为异类。
But KK didn’t stopped just there. She knew that you can’t rely on your face or your youth forever. So she made her mind to become an outlier in this beauty-worshiping industry.
比如，在做模特的同时，她还在纽约开了一家饼干店，成为了一个小业主。
For example, when she was still a model, she opened a cookie store in New York and became a business owner.
这家店叫 Karlie's Kookies （她喜欢把C写成自己的K）
This brand is called Karlie’s Kookies. (She likes replacing C with her K.)
她时不时还自己去帮帮忙，
Every now and then she would go to the store and lend a helping hand.
还经常蹦出些神奇的点子：
And she came up with cool ideas quite often.
在我的模特事业之外，
Outside of my modelling career,
我还经营一个饼干品牌。
I have a cookie line.
我觉得，
And I thought
如果能用无人机来送货的话，肯定非常酷。
it’d be cool to deliver cookies via drone.
另外，她还动用自己的高收入去做投资，而且做得还很好，
Besides this, she took advantage of her high income to do investment. And she did it with flying colors.
比如她之前花190万美元投资了纽约的一处房产，3年后净赚了200万美元，相当于200多年的银行利息。
For example, she once invested 1.9 million dollars in a real estate in New York and made a neat profit of 2 million dollars 3 years later. That was as much as 2 years’ worth of bank interest.
除了房地产呢，她还投资新兴的环保服装品牌，并且自己去代言：
Apart from real estate, she also invested her money in revolutionary environmentally friendly fashion brand. And she made her self the brand face.
不过，如果单单只是做这些的话，好像也和一般的偶像没太大的不同。
But if this was all that is, then she wouldn't be so different from all those ordinary idols.
KK 真正与众不同的，是她还热衷于投资硅谷的高科技公司，
What really makes KK so extraordinary is that she also invested a lot in the high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.
这一方面是因为这里的新兴公司的确有潜力，另一方面是因为 KK 有这方面的专业背景。
On one hand it’s because these emerging companies do have potentials, on the other hand it’s because KK has the relevant knowledge of this field.
没错，KK 其实是个喜欢打代码的技术宅。
Yes, KK is a techy otaku who loves coding.
谁说理工科女生注定是土包子的？
Who said all STEM girls are unfashionable?
而她在2014年决定离开维密也是因为这个。
And this was the very reason for her to decide to leave Victoria’s Secret in 2014.
她当时的原话是这样的：
Her original words back then were like this:
去过太多的地方后，我觉得我更要投资我自己。
After traveling to so many places, I realized that what I really should invest in is myself.
这就是教育的魔力，给自己一次深度的投资。
And this is the charm of education. It’s a chance to make a deep investment in yourself.
我需要在事业和学习之间找到平衡，所以我决定暂别模特事业，重返大学。
I need to find the balance between my study and my career. So I decide to leave modelling for a while and go back to college.
（纽约大学）
于是，她就去了纽约大学。
So she went to New York University.
这是一所位于纽约繁华区的名校。
It’s a famous school in downtown New York.
而她在这学的，是计算机科学和商业管理。
And what she studied there was computer science and business management.
（“周三我们打代码~” 图片来自KK的Ins）
选这样的专业，有两个原因。
This choice in major has 2 reasons.
首先，这是因为 KK 本来就对这些感兴趣。
First, these 2 had been what KK was interested in.
第二，是因为她认为这样才能更好地在硅谷做投资。
Second, she thought only by doing this could she make better investment in Silicon Valley.
而她的努力显然是值得的，因为她2016年的收入超过了2500万美金。是做模特时的5倍多。
And her efforts turned out to be worthy, because her income in 2016 was over 25 million dollars. It’s 5 times of what she earned as a model.
除此之外呢，KK 认为变身成码农不光能让自己的事业更顺利，同时也能让自己成为一个更独立、更自由的女性：
Besides all these, KK thinks becoming a programmer can not only make her career run better but also make herself a woman with greater independence and more freedom.
如果你能打代码，你就能自由地创造一切你想创造的东西。
To be able to code gives you the freedom to build anything
这会让你拥有非常强大的力量。
and that is just so empowering.
而且她不光自己这么身体力行，还设立了一个专项奖学金：
And she didn’t just do this herself. She established a special scholarship.
它叫做“和KK一起写代码奖学金”。
It’s called Koding with Karlie Kloss Scholarship
这个奖学金专门提供给18岁以下、喜欢编程的女孩子，让她们能在编程界名校 Flatiron School学习为期2周的课程。
This scholarship is specially offered to girls under 18 who loves to code. It makes them able to take a 2-week course in Flatiron School which is quite a famous school in the world of programmers.
她告诉姑娘们：
She told the girls:
学习编程不仅仅意味着一份工作。
Learning coding is not only about job.
它更意味着置身未来世界中心的话语权和影响力。
It’s also about getting your voice and impact in the center of the future world.
在计算机行业男性占大比例的今天，女生也应有与未来对话的权利。
In the IT industry which is dominated by men, girls should have the right to have conversations with the future.
她说得没错，因为这样的事情真的在世界各地发生。
She is right, because things like this are really happening worldwide.
在印度和一些南亚国家的农村，妇女的地位是非常低的。
In the countryside of India and some Southeastern Asian country, women have a very low social status.
而有一些公益组织带领一部分女性去学了编程，让她们能够在家里接一些远程的外包工作。
Some NGOs led a few women to learn how to code and made them capable of doing some outsourcing work remotely back home.
结果这些女人慢慢成了家里收入最高的人，于是获得了地位。
And the result is these women became the main bread winner in their homes and thus acquired respect.
所以，说真的，
So, yes,
投资什么都不如投资自己，
there is nothing which deserves your investment more than yourself.
因为靠什么都不如靠自己的一手技能。
Because there is nothing more reliable than your own skills.
美貌、精力，这些都终将离你远去，但你积累的能力却不会。
Beauty and stamina will both abandon you eventually. But the abilities you accumulated won’t.
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