In fact, in terms of performance itself, Zhang Ran is not better than other actors, especially actors like Wang Chao, who have acted in dramas and TV series for more than ten years.

In addition to the high quality of the sketch itself, it is very important that he and his students were really hungry all day in order to make the performance more realistic, and this professionalism impressed the judges. The judges are all experts, but they are also emotional, so in the second round of character observation exercises, they gave Zhang Ran a shocking high score.

No matter what, Zhang Ran still relied on their strength to win the championship, and there was no doubt.

However, in the individual competition on the second night, Zhang Ran failed to maintain good luck. The individual competition is dominated by improvisation, and this is where the reflexes of the sketch actors and the stage experience of the drama actors come into play, but Zhang Ran still has too little stage experience, and in the end he only won the fourth place.

Zhang Ran didn't feel sad because of this, because he waited for the news that he had been waiting for, and the Tokyo Film Organizing Committee informed him that the movie "Bursting Drummer" was shortlisted for the Tokyo Film Festival.

The Tokyo Film Festival is an international A-category film festival, and the so-called A-category film festival is a competition-type non-specialized film festival, which has no restrictions on the type of film, and no matter what type of film can be registered. Because there are no restrictions and there are many films participating and screened, the A-class film festival is a platform for filmmakers from all over the world to communicate and communicate, so it has a relatively large influence.

Zhang Ran: The last fantasy film festival they participated in belonged to a B-class film festival, which is a competition-type special film festival, and the main ones who signed up for the competition were science fiction films, fantasy films, and horror films. There is also a lack of big names, so the influence is relatively small.

Although the Tokyo Film Festival is far inferior to Cannes, Berlin and Venice. However, as the earliest and largest A-category film festival in Asia, it still has considerable influence. Attending such a grand event must be taken seriously. Otherwise, it will become an international laughing stock if you are not careful. Therefore, after receiving the notice of the film festival, Zhang Ran dialed Zhang Jingchu's phone and asked her to go back to Peking to solve the problem of clothing.

Zhang Jingchu didn't dare to delay when she received Zhang Ran's news, told the crew, and got back on the plane back to Beiping.

When she landed at the airport, Zhang Ran and Li Xiaowan were already waiting there.

"Why are you here?" Zhang Jingchu ran over in surprise when she saw Zhang Ran.

"Waiting for you!" Zhang Ran said with a smile.

Zhang Jingchu was very happy when she heard Zhang Ran say this, did she miss me? But Zhang Ran's next words. Let her understand that she is thinking too much: "We have made an appointment with the costume designer, come with us!"

Zhang Jingchu said faintly: "Where are you going to do it?"

"Rose Square!"

got out of the airport and got into Rong Xinda's car. Zhang Jingchu asked puzzledly: "Why do you have to make clothes, what a waste of money, can't you borrow it directly?"

For celebrities, it is enough to wear their own clothes and match themselves on less important occasions such as small press conferences and meet-and-greets, while they must wear dresses for major occasions such as the Tokyo Film Festival. As a star. You can't wear a dress repeatedly, you have to do it every time you appear, otherwise it will attract countless ridicule. Spending tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a piece of clothing and wear it only once, that's really not cost-effective. Therefore, the dresses of celebrities are basically borrowed.

There are several ways for celebrities to borrow clothes, one is to borrow from designers, and many costume designers have a lot of dresses that can be lent to actors. For example, Liu Shishi often wears Lanyu clothes, and the second is borrowed through clothing editors or special modeling studios. Several domestic first-line clothing editors like Su Mang and Zhang Yu, as long as they come out. There is no clothes that can't be borrowed;The third is to contact the brand's public relations department directly, borrowing this brand of dresses, of course, the top brands can only be borrowed by big-name stars, and they can't be borrowed if they are not famous enough.

"Of course not, we are going to a class A film festival, the global media gathers, you go there to represent China, you can't be sloppy!" Zhang Ran retracted his gaze looking out the window, looked at Zhang Jingchu, and said with a smile, "There are many taboos in attending this kind of film festival, there are two taboos in dress, the first is that you can't wear copycat clothes, it's a trivial matter for the brand to pull you into the blacklist, and more importantly, the entire fashion circle will draw a line with you." What is the main income of an actor? Advertising and endorsements, once the fashion industry draws a line with you, it will be difficult to get top endorsements!"

The consequences of wearing celebrities and copycat costumes abroad are more serious, such as Courtney Love wore a copycat Chanel when she attended Paris Hilton's birthday party, and after being debunked, she received dozens of calls to terminate various business cooperation. The domestic situation is better, but it also has an impact, Liu Yifei has been wearing a cottage dress, which has led to poor fashion resources for a long time.

When Zhang Jingchu heard these for the first time, she asked with relish: "What is the second one?"

"The second is to pay attention to the collision shirt. Why? Because as long as celebrities hit shirts, they will be compared. Even if she is Siqin Gaowa and you are Zhang Ziyi, there is no comparison at all, but as long as you wear the same clothes, you will be compared. Every time you take stock of celebrity bumping incidents, your photos will appear repeatedly. Of course, it is difficult to avoid the situation of colliding shirts, and many celebrities have encountered it, but what can be avoided is to avoid it as much as possible, especially on major occasions. Don't fantasize that you can collide with big stars, it's impossible, big brand clothes won't be lent to small stars, you can't borrow them if you are not famous enough, top stars often wear haute couture, this thing is just one set, it is impossible to wear it on two people at the same time. ”

Zhang Jingchu asked curiously: "What is Gao Ding?"

Zhang Ran was surprised and said, "You don't even know this?"

Zhang Jingchu was a little embarrassed: "I'm dirty!"

Zhang Ran shook his head helplessly, now domestic celebrities generally have poor fashion awareness, and they don't even have the concept of this. For example, Gao Yuanyuan, who was famous for fashion in later generations, went in sportswear when she attended some cocktail parties at the Berlin Film Festival in 01.

"There are two kinds of fashion, one is called ready-to-wear and the other is customized," he explains. Ready-to-wear garments are mass-produced, while customization is made to order according to the customer's size. Haute Couture is haute couture, and the real haute couture is a brand recognized by the French Haute Couture Association, and there are more than ten in the world. There are more than a dozen in France and six or seven overseas brands. The real haute couture requirements are very strict. Must have a studio in Paris, have a minimal number of pieces of clothing per style and are largely done by hand, the garments must be tailor-made, employ more than 3 full-time models and at least 20 full-time employees all year round, and attend the biannual launch of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week. A minimum of 50 works need to be published per series. If you were originally a haute couture brand, but now you can't meet the conditions, then you will be disqualified, so there are more than ten real haute couture brands! If one day, you can wear the haute couture dress of the season, it means that you are a first-line star!"

Zhang Jingchu stuck out her tongue: "I didn't expect to be so particular about wearing clothes, it's so complicated!"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "The entertainment industry and the fashion industry have never been separated, you have to learn these!"

An hour later, the car stopped at Hongyuan Hutong. The doors open. Zhang Ran stepped down from the car and looked up to see the words "Rose Square".

Rose Square is Guo Pei's fashion custom studio, Guo Pei is one of the earliest custom dress designers in China, she has been for CCTV "Spring Festival Gala" host and important actors for ten consecutive years to make clothes, it can be said that CCTV is the queen. Of course, her most famous outfit is the pancake-like dragon robe worn by Harley at the 2015 MetBall at the Oscars of the fashion industry.

Zhang Ran is not too interested in Guo Pei's dress, her design is more like to pile up Chinese elements, big flowers, big red and green, straightforward and abrupt. It is very eye-catching, and it is very suitable for lively and festive occasions such as the Spring Festival Gala, but it will look more tacky to get the red carpet of the film festival. It's just that there are only a handful of custom dresses in China now, and the others are not as good as her.

In the car. Li Xiaowan had already contacted Guo Pei, so when Zhang Ran and the three of them got out of the car, they saw two women waiting at the door.

"Little Sister Wan, it's been a long time. "Guo Pei is a young woman in her early thirties. Wearing a long skirt, she looks good.

"Long time no see. I'm sorry to ask you to come down to greet you. I'm going to trouble you this time. Li Xiaowan smiled and hugged the other party.

"Little Sister Wan, don't be polite with me. Guo Pei smiled.

Li Xiaowan smiled and pointed to Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu behind him and said: "This is director Zhang Ran, and his film was shortlisted for the Tokyo Film Festival." This is Zhang Jingchu, an actor in our company, and we are here for her costumes. ”

"Hello, I like the costume you designed for "Daming Palace Ci", it is very beautiful. Zhang Ran smiled and stretched out his hand.

"Thank you, it's a great honor to meet you!" Guo Pei shook hands with Zhang Ran first, and then shook hands with Zhang Jingchu, and said, "I'll take you to visit our studio first, and then we'll talk about clothing." ”

Walking into the headquarters of Rose Square, the first floor is a magnificent reception hall, displaying exquisite haute couture clothing, and the second floor has set up different styles of fitting rooms, dignified and elegant Chinese style, enthusiastic and unrestrained youth confession, noble and luxurious aristocratic demeanor, creating an infinite reverie space for guests with different temperaments and styles. The third and fourth floors are the soul of the Rose Workshop, where a professional team of more than 100 senior designers, embroiderers, pattern makers, craftsmen, etc., are busy in their respective positions, accompanied by beautiful background music, and customized fashions worth tens of thousands to millions of yuan are born one by one in the cumbersome procedures.

After a visit, Zhang Ran and the others sat down in the conference room and began to discuss the issue of clothing with Guo Pei. Zhang Jingchu is still a local girl, and she doesn't have a clear concept of clothing, she thinks that Guo Pei's customized clothes are good, they are all beautiful, and she thinks it's okay to borrow a few sets at will. Of course, she cares more about Zhang Ran's opinion, after all, women are the ones who please themselves.

Zhang Ran really didn't like the clothes Guo Pei displayed, so he took out a few pictures in his bag and put them in front of Guo Pei: "Look at this!"

Guo Pei glanced at it, it was a clothing design manuscript, and frowned, what does this mean? Come to me, you take other people's designs, this is too much to look down on me! But when she saw the content of the design clearly, her expression suddenly changed greatly, and then she retracted her smile, looking extremely focused.

Guo Pei's assistant couldn't see the design drawing in Guo Pei's hand, and he didn't know why she was like this, he was very surprised, what was this, and how could Mr. Guo Pei react like this?

At this moment, Guo Pei suddenly stood up, holding the drawings in his hand, and asked in a trembling voice, "This, who designed these costumes?" (To be continued.) )