Chapter 200: About the Closed Circle
At half past one o'clock in the afternoon Italian time, people in Florence have just started their lunch, and people in New York have just started work.
If Qi Yi is ready to leave, he should have a lot of things to do after he arrives at the company, and Qi Yi's position has too much data to hand over, and this process will take a while.
This is also why, after Yan Yun saw the email, he did not call directly, but lay on the bed and typed back the email.
It's just that after Yan Yun sent the email, almost at the same time, she received another email from Qi Yi in her mailbox.
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When I called before, I said that I would write to tell you what I, a person outside the fashion circle, think about the closed circle of fashion.
When you were on the plane, I was alone and researched the history of fashion.
I want to see if the current Chinese designers are really standing on the cusp of fashion like the Japanese designers in the sixties and seventies, as you said.
I found that the history of modern fashion is quite short, and many so-called "historical" materials are also about the development of clothing technology.
If we go back 40 or 50 years to the fashion we are talking about today, Paris will still be the only place in the world of fashion.
In terms of the four major fashion weeks that you are particularly concerned about, Paris Fashion Show Week started in 1910, and Milan and London were at least fifty or sixty years late, in 1967 and 1971 respectively.
Historically, New York Fashion Week is a bit more complicated.
I read that New York Fashion Week was founded in 1943, but the official Ne York Fashion eek was only in 1994, and before that it was called Press eek of Ne York.
The launch week and fashion week are not the same concept at the beginning, and this launch week still took advantage of the cheapness of World War II, when France was a war zone, and there was no way to host Paris Fashion Week.
The New York press week was not led by a designer or a trade association, but by a media publicist named Eleanar Lamber.
Her media resources are very rich, as long as she is a designer she supports, she will definitely be popular.
Since 1939, because of World War II, many of Europe's fashion-conscious financiers have taken refuge in the United States, where peace has flourished.
The wives and daughters of wealthy people in the United States, there are not many people who dare to go to Europe casually to do haute couture, after all, compared to life, love beauty is sometimes not so important.
After Paris Fashion Week was shut down due to the war, New York had a whole new opportunity.
In 1945, Eleanar Lamber gathered all the designers in the United States in New York and released their works intensively.
This should be the prototype of New York Fashion Week. However, the start-up model of this launch week is a bit strange, the press conference is only for media people, and buyers can only visit the sample room if they want to buy.
You said that China's current fashion outlet is very similar to Japan in the sixties and seventies.
I researched it and decided that it would be better to compare it with the United States at that time, rather than compare it with Japan at that time.
In the sixties and seventies of the last century, the U.S. government and industry associations paid for and sent delegations to let American designers hold shows at the White House, and also sent American designers to the Soviet Union and Australia at that time to hold fashion shows all over the world.
Similar things, with the support of the government, our domestic industry associations have been doing it since the eighties and nineties of the last century, I don't know if it is within the scope of your attention.
Since the twenties of the last century, American designers have been lamenting why there are no world-class fashion brands in the United States, and the U.S. government and industry associations have spent eighty or ninety years to give the United States its current status in the fashion industry.
New York Fashion Week is now second only to Paris Fashion Week in influence.
The conclusion of my layman's rough research is that whether it is from the perspective of the transformation from a manufacturing country to a brand power, or from the background of industrial development, there are more places for us to learn from American fashion history than Japan.
I recently read a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning Robin Givhan, the highest award in journalism you studied, The Battle of Versailles, about a 1973 fashion showdown between five lesser-known fashion designers in the United States and five bigwigs in France over a fundraiser at the Palace of Versailles. (Note 1)
It was after that showdown that American fashion began to emerge on the global fashion stage
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In this way, when Yan Yun was looking at the email sent by Qi Yi, Qi Yi was also looking at Yan Yun.
Yan Yun was almost stupid when she saw Qi Yi's beginning, even if the alien Qi Yi could reply to emails in seconds, she would not be able to guess anything she wanted to ask.
When I saw the end, I found that the email was obviously sent before it was finished.
Yan Yun knew that Qi Yi should just happen to be writing an email to her.
Most of them were interrupted by the emails she sent, and when I wanted to see what her emails were about, I accidentally clicked send.
However, at this time, shouldn't Qi Yi be at work?
Anyway, since Qi Yi received the email, Yan Yun also got up and went to brush his teeth with peace of mind.
Otherwise, I slept until I woke up naturally today, and I didn't have time to call Qi Yi, the "little daughter-in-law" who was in a sensitive period, to say good morning, and I would probably be moved out soon.
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Qi Yi's previous email was written in the middle of the night last year.
Qi Yi's last email analyzes the process of his psychological struggle over whether to follow Ian to do this.
But in fact, whether it is dissected or not, Qi Yidu has already figured it out, what he really wants to know is the question he asked about who loves whom more.
Qi Yi is very confident in his love for Yan Yun, but after a long time of long-term love in a foreign country, he has little confidence in whether Yan Yun has the same level of love for him.
Exotic couples who have not been able to meet for a long time are inevitable.
What's more critical is that Florence, where Yan Yun is now, has a rival in love who has entered his eyes.
Qi Yi wrote an email to Yan Yun yesterday because he couldn't get up from sleep.
After writing the first email, Qi Yi still couldn't sleep.
Qi Yi didn't try to sleep again, he decided to just wait until Yan Yun called him in the morning, took a shower, and went straight to work.
As a result, Qi Yi waited until Yan Yun usually called him, but Yan Yun still didn't respond.
Qi Yi's mental activities last night were too rich, which is why when Qi Yi received Yan Yun's email, he was too excited and sent out his unfinished email.
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Note 1:
Robin Givhan's "The Battle of Versailles" is a true story, the quintessential American dream, and is best suited to be made into a movie.
Last year (2016), the book was adapted and made into a film funded by HBO, which is not yet completed, and I don't know if there is a chance to release it in China.