Hong Kong film star Maggie Cheung, with bright-red lips and heavy eyebrows, appears in the 2008 Pirelli Calendar. [Photo: TheFirst .cn]

Hong Kong film star Maggie Cheung has been chosen to show her glamor to the world on the Pirelli 2008 Calendar, the only Chinese selected for the 12 supermodel calendar, the Beijing-based newspaper 'The First' reported on Friday.

The Pirelli calendar is an annual publication issued by Italian conglomerate Pirelli & Co that has made its name for its artistic portraits of the world's most beautiful faces since it appeared in 1964.

This year, the company set its focus on Shanghai and moved its filming team, led by major French fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier, to China in May.

The calendar came out on November 29. Other faces that grace its pages include supermodels Coco Rocha and Gemma Ward.