Chapter 571
Ding Zeming was still quite curious about Li Xuan's identity, and from the first time he saw the other party, he already knew that Li Xuan's origin was extraordinary. As the saying goes, people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles, and a person's dress often inadvertently reflects the class they belong to.
Li Xuan is actually not a person who pays special attention to dress, even if he puts a T-shirt of twenty or thirty yuan on the stall, he will not feel uncomfortable. But the problem is that when he reaches his status, it is really difficult to have access to clothes worth dozens of dollars.
All of Li Xuan's current clothes were made by a few of his women. And who will give him, a man with the richest man in the world on his head, to buy cheap stall goods. For example, Li Xuan accompanied the child to attend the parent-child event in the kindergarten today, and Zhong Chuhong specially chose it for her husband, a casual suit, reflecting the solemnity of the child's father, but not serious.
The top layer of fashion can be divided into two types, ready-to-wear and haute couture. The so-called ready-to-wear is the clothes that we can buy directly in the haute couture stores such as Armani, Gucci, Versace and Prada. Like ordinary ready-to-wear, they are mass-produced at fixed sizes, but the designers are more famous, the fabrics are better, and the process is more complex.
Haute couture, on the other hand, has elevated clothing to the level of a work of art, and each set of haute couture clothes is individually carefully designed by top designers for customers, which needs to be tailored after multiple trials, and then handmade by hundreds of craftsmen for weeks or even months.
For example, what Li Xuan is wearing today is a haute couture suit by Armani. When he first made clothes for Armani, Giorgio Armani, the founder of the brand, came from Milan himself. Flew to Hong Kong to explain his design philosophy to him.
Designers and customers need to communicate and run in face-to-face, which is the biggest difference between haute couture and ordinary ready-to-wear. Giorgio Armani and Li Xuan discussed it seven or eight times. Only then did he gradually find out a design style that not only conformed to Li Xuan's personal aesthetics, but also had a trendy fashion taste.
Of course. Once the designer and the customer slowly start to get to know each other, the process will not be so cumbersome. But every set of clothes on Li Xuan's body is designed from the beginning to the end of his family's wardrobe, and there are still at least two fitting processes in between. This is still the result of his unwillingness to waste too much time on such things that do not seem to him to have much meaning, and try to simplify.
As the so-called slow work and meticulous work, Li Xuan's figure is naturally impossible to compare with those male models, but the haute couture fashion worn on him will look particularly stylish in addition to being comfortable. Because the designer at the beginning of the design of the garment. I have already figured out how to cover up the various deficiencies in the shape of the clothed person, which is something that the ready-to-wear produced by the assembly line cannot do.
However, you get what you pay for, and the price of haute couture clothing is naturally quite expensive. Each of Li Xuan's suits or jackets is priced at more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars. And he spends millions of Hong Kong dollars on custom-made clothes every year, which is almost equivalent to the salary of ordinary white-collar workers in Hong Kong for a lifetime.
It may be difficult for the average person to discern the difference in the fabric of a garment just by looking at it for a few moments. And Ding Zeming happened to have such a pair of fiery eyes. His main job is to sell his analysis and investment advice on the capital market to his clients. But he is not an ordinary stockbroker, and the person who qualifies as his client must at least have a deposit of millions of Hong Kong dollars.
Millionaires in Hong Kong can only be regarded as the general public. Because as long as you can own a house of your own in the city, it is basically worth more than one million. But having a million deposits is not something that ordinary people can achieve, at least they have to be the boss of their own store and factory, or the gold collar of the company's senior management.
And among Ding Zeming's customers. There is no shortage of multimillionaires, even billionaire-level figures. According to an analysis in a recent article in the Hong Kong Economic Journal, there are as many as 5,000 billionaires in Hong Kong. Want to have a good communication with these rich people. Ding Zeming naturally needs to be familiar with their taste of life.
And judging the assets of a person by what they wear is an entry-level skill. In fact, it's not just Ding Zeming. Like most high-end fashion stores, the shopping guide also has this ability. From the moment customers enter the door, they can already guess whether the other party has the strength to spend in their own store.
And the reason why Ding Zeming talked to Li Xuan so patiently just now. even recommended stocks worth investing in to Li Xuan in great detail, in order to naturally turn Li Xuan into his own customer. You must know that these same words are said to Ding Zeming's customers, and he has to charge a lot of service fees.
"Li Sheng, it's not easy for you to drag two by one!" The three-legged game between the two had just ended, and Ding Zeming stood next to Li Xuan seemingly inadvertently and smiled.
As the name suggests, the three-legged game is to tie one foot of the child and the parent together, so that two people can only have three feet to move, and compete for the coordination ability between the parent and the child.
However, because Li Xuan's family has a pair of twins, other parents need to do the game once, but he needs to do it twice. Although it was cloudy today, it was already summer after all, and Li Xuan was soon sweating profusely.
"Rui Rui, you see that your father is already out of breath, how about the next game of big feet and small feet, let your uncle accompany you to the game?" Ding Zeming touched the head of Li Xuan's little radish head Li Zhirui again, and said with a smile.
Although Li Xuan introduced himself just now, he simply said that his surname was Li, and even brought his full name and occupation directly, and he didn't seem to have any plans to have a deep friendship with Ding Zeming. However, Ding Zeming was obviously not ready to let go of such a potential customer, and began to take the initiative to get closer to Li Xuan.
It's a pity that Ding Zeming didn't guess that the man in front of him was actually a dealer rather than a player. The results of his painstaking efforts to gather all kinds of information and conduct various analyses were transparent to the man in front of him. For example, he is still waiting for Aikang to announce the final sales of the first week of the NoteBook series of laptops, but Li Xuan already knows the results.
NoteBOOK's sales figures are very gratifying and have exceeded Aikang's expectations. According to Aikang's original target, the sales volume of NoteBook was set at 200,000 units within one year of its launch. But in the first week of its launch, the global sales of NoteBook exceeded 20,000 units. Although this exaggerated figure is largely due to the large-scale publicity of Aikang in the early stage, it has accumulated a large number of interested customers.
These accumulations began to be released as soon as the NoteBook went on sale, which pushed up the sales in the first week, and the sales in the following single week will definitely drop sharply. But this data still greatly exceeds Aikang's own expectations.
In a report sent to Li Xuan this morning, the marketing department of Aikang has raised the sales plan for the first year of NoteBook to 30 to 350,000 units. You must know that compared with the ABC-6 computers on the market before, the performance of the current NoteBook series laptops is still relatively simple.
As early as the previous ABC-5 computer, Akon began to provide support for multimedia technology, so as to make the computer more versatile. With the advancement of sound card and graphics card technology, as well as the expansion of computing power such as processor and memory, the overall performance of the ABC-6 computer has made great progress compared with the previous ABC-5.
Especially with the addition of support for VCD reading to the new generation of optical drives, ABC-6 has basically been able to realize most of the functions of later computers, such as surfing the Internet, playing games, listening to songs, watching movies, etc. The PC market has always been divided into two main segments, namely home entertainment and business office. And throughout the eighties, the latter was the mainstream of personal computer demand.
However, with the gradual improvement of multimedia technology, the home entertainment function of personal computers is rapidly improving. This is particularly evident in the post-launch sales figures for the ABC-6, where the growth rate from office purchases is still within a reasonable range, while orders from household purchases have taken a huge leap.
And for today's NoteBook laptops, there is little to no support for multimedia technology. Therefore, almost all of its orders come from the business office field, and the biggest feature of the notebook - portability, is a very important advantage in the business market.
The overall performance of the NoteBook-1000 is actually only equivalent to the level of the earlier models of the ABC-3. But under the guise of being able to take it with you, poor performance isn't a problem at all for business travelers who often need to travel.
In this era when there are no USB disks, mobile hard disks, and the Internet is just starting, data transmission is a very painful thing. At present, the capacity of a standard 3.5-inch floppy disk is only about 1M, and it is difficult to store a large amount of data. If you can bring a computer directly with you when you are on a business trip, you can not only retrieve all kinds of information at any time, but also work with the computer at any time.
And this is also the most important reason why NoteBook ushered in hot sales immediately after its launch. With the popularity of the ABC series of computers in the business field, electronic office is becoming an unstoppable trend. The advent of laptops just solves the problem that ordinary desktop computers cannot carry.
While Ding Zeming was waiting for NoteBook sales to come out, there were many other people in the world who were nervously concerned about this issue. Compared with Ding Zeming, who can only rely on collecting public information for analysis, other people's news channels are obviously more powerful.
When Aikang has not officially announced the sales data of NoteBook in the first week, Toshiba's new president, Koichi Tanimura, has already obtained the relevant data in advance.
Last year, Toshiba's former president was forced to resign due to the revelation of Toshiba's illegal export of five-axis linkage CNC machine tools to the Soviet Union. Since becoming the new president and CEO of Toshiba Corporation, Koichi Tanimura has been looking for new profit growth points for the company! )