When this invitation was received, Germany was also a little surprised, although there was no real fashion show in this era, in the old time, the first real fashion show took place in Philadelphia, USA, in 1908, and thus officially began this kind of performance. In 1914, the Chicago Garment Manufacturing Association hosted a costume show attended by more than 100 models, and the "T" stage was used for the first time in this performance, thus becoming a special stage for future costume performances.

But the use of real people to display clothing has long been around for a long time, starting with some Parisian tailor shops having female clerks or assistants wear their clothes to attract customers, or even letting people wear their clothes in public for free.

At this point, there are two main ways to display costumes by real people, one is to unite with the theater industry to create costumes for actresses on and off stage. High-class fashion houses often advertise their outfits by pitching to famous actresses of the era. The theatres of England and France were the places to see the most fashionable objects of the era, which led to the creation of fashion shows, and where fashion houses displayed their latest products, the hiring of women to wear their designs to proms and other social events, and of course a small number of haute couture designers would even use real people to show off their latest designs to elite clients in some private and informal gatherings, of course, this kind of performance was very casual, and the models would make different gestures according to the client's request to show off the effect of the costume。

Although Germany is not the fashion center of Europe, it is a strong country and the premise of playing art is economic strength, and secondly, there is no shortage of outstanding artists in German history, so the members of the German mission are no strangers to live costume performances, and Prince Heinrich and his wife attend several gatherings every year to show their costumes. However, I didn't expect that East China ** would actually show this kind of costume as the content of diplomatic activities, of course, I was a little dismissive in my heart, but this is the arrangement of East China **, and it is not easy to refuse, of course, I still have to criticize a few words in my heart about "countrymen" and "I have never seen the world" and so on.

However, after everyone came to the scene of the performance, they felt that such an arrangement in East China was not targeted, because the middle of the venue was a stage about 30 meters long, about 4 meters wide, and about 0.6 meters high, and at the end of the stage was a horizontal platform against the wall, about 10 meters wide, just forming a "T" shape, and the wall was painted with a variety of wonderful women's shapes, and above the stage, various lamps and lanterns were installed. On the front and sides of the stage, chairs are arranged. Judging from this arrangement, it is clear that it is completely different from the European party where costumes are displayed, and it does look like a performance stage.

At this time, I saw a woman about 35 years old, tall, wearing a slim plain dark flower, stand-up collar middle sleeves, long skirts on both sides, and a shawl, and came first, greeted Li Songchen and said, "Mayor Li, welcome to the scene." ”

Li Songchen smiled and said, "Mr. Jiang, how can you not come to such a grand performance?" Turning to Prince Heinrich and his wife, he said: "Prince, Mrs. Princess, this is the organizer of this performance, Ms. Jiang Yi, the general manager of Wuren Group, the costumes for this performance are all made by them. ”

Jiang Yi owed a debt and said, "Welcome to Your Excellency the Prince, the Princess's Wife, and all your German friends, I hope you will enjoy our performance." ”

Prince Heinrich said: "Thank you for your kindness, I think this will be a wonderful performance." ”

And Mrs. Princess's wife is a woman, she should naturally be more active on this occasion, so she first gave Jiang Yi a hug, and then looked up and down, seeing that she was generous, elegant, and naturally behaved, obviously well-educated, and couldn't help but be afraid, and said: "Dear lady, is this dress you are wearing made by you? ”

In fact, Jiang Yi's height is only 1.62 meters, but wearing a pair of 9 cm high hating the sky, she suddenly reached a sense of sight of more than 1.7, plus she has been in charge of the company for 4 or 5 years. Said: "Madame Princess, this is indeed a costume designed and made by ourselves, if you like it, after the performance is over, I can arrange someone to measure it for you and make one." However, I recommend that you make a decision after watching the show, and I think it will definitely surprise you. ”

Gao Jun said: "Mr. Jiang, after the performance starts in a while, you will sit next to Mrs. Princess, so that you can introduce your products to Mrs. Princess." ”

While they were talking, the rest of the audience was seated one after another, and the costume show was free, but there were only about 500 seats at the scene, and each seat was a fixed person, all of whom were celebrities from all walks of life in Shanghai, of which about 150 were women, a small number were well-known women in Shanghai, and the others were the wives or daughters of celebrities. At the same time, behind the seats, there were also about 1,000 people.

At this time, Gong Weibo, the chief director of this costume performance, came to Jiang Yi's side and said, "Mr. Jiang, almost everything that should come is here, you can start." ”

Jiang Yi nodded, "Let's start." ”

So Gong Weibo waved his hand, only to see that the main lighting of the audience was extinguished, and only some auxiliary lighting lights were left, but soon the stage was lit up, the original stage was divided into 80*80 cm squares, the middle three pieces were made of glass, covered with a layer of gauze below, built-in lights, plus the lighting on the top of the stage was also lit up, and the whole stage was suddenly illuminated.

Then the music played, and I saw four women walking out from each side of the stage, standing in a horizontal row, and the two people in the middle walked along the stage and walked along the music, and two circles appeared on the stage, always following the two.

Then everyone else also walked along the stage in turn, with different costumes, and the performance was not only women, but also men, but both men and women were tall and tall, with delicate views, demeanor or coldness or smile, walking steps with a unique charm, and the lights on the top of the stage flickered, dazzling and dazzling, coupled with music, singing interspersed with cooperation, forming a strong visual and auditory impact. There were bursts of applause from time to time.

The Germans also looked quite shaken, although the clothing on display was not unusual, both men and women, basically the line is simple, trimmed, close-fitting style, it can be seen that it is more popular, but this form of expression, stage, lighting effect, is indeed never seen before. Even Prince Heinrich and the princess nodded frequently.

In fact, this is only the first part of the display, for daily clothing, basically in accordance with the clothing style of the old time and space, casual, convenient, concise, and because it is now the middle of April, so the clothing is also based on spring and summer clothing, most of which are women's clothing, and there are also a small number of men's clothing.

It lasted about 30 minutes, a total of about 50 sets of daily clothing were displayed, and the next display was a variety of high crotch dresses, men's dresses were mainly long trench coats, and with top hats, scarves and other accessories, although the style was simple and complicated, but they were obviously a grade higher than the clothes just shown; Scarves, cloaks, etc., including the cheongsam worn by Jiang Yi, of course, there are more than 10 styles and matching styles of cheongsam alone. Coupled with the atmosphere of lighting and music, it makes people dazzled and overwhelmed.

At this time, the princess and lady were also dazzled, in fact, except for a few people with unique tastes, the aesthetic vision of the East and the West, The point of view is basically the same, because it is the aesthetics of the patriarch and the West is closer, so the clothes designed are more in line with the appetite of Westerners, and the princess and Mrs. are the first time to see this kind of European traditional dress is completely different, but it is indeed another style of clothes, the result is only that one dress is good-looking, I really don't know how to choose, I finally saw a few, but there are too many clothes on display, and I forgot that it was that one in a blink of an eye.

However, during the performance just now, Jiang Yi explained to the princess and wife the styles and occasions of various clothing, and also talked about some fashion topics with the prince's wife, Gao Jun also participated in the discussion from time to time, and the three women seemed to be talking very speculatively. In fact, these three women are not the ladies who do not go out of the door and do not step out of the door, but women who have seen the world and big occasions, and have quite excellent communication skills, plus clothing, dress, and fashion are also the topics that can attract women to talk about, so the relationship between the three has also been rapidly closer.

Seeing that the princess's wife was difficult to choose, Jiang Yi smiled and said: "Mrs. Prince, the clothes displayed today have samples in our company, I see that you don't have to be busy choosing, if you are free tomorrow, you can go to our company to try them on. ”

The princess also nodded, turned to Prince Heinrich and said, "Albert?"

Prince Heinrich hurriedly raised his hand and said, "Of course, ma'am, you go as soon as possible, and it is better to pick out a few more beautiful clothes." I think that when we return to Germany, you will be the object of envy of all the ladies of Berlin. ”

When the princess heard this, she immediately smiled, so she ignored the prince and discussed it with Gao Jun and Jiang Yi.

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