In the dressing room on the second floor of the Hotel Cleon in Paris, seven or eight young girls are doing their hair and makeup, and they are a busy scene. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Anna Wintour's daughter, Catherine Schaffer, has already put on her makeup and changed into a blue gown. She stood in front of the mirror, looking at herself in the mirror, the blue princess dress with the ruby necklace looked particularly bright, the side bangs exuded a strong elegant atmosphere, the few strands of curls scattered on both sides of the cheeks made it more charming, the blue-gray eye makeup and the blue evening dress were very harmonious, and the whole person looked perfect.

Bishafer feels very satisfied, other girls basically choose well-known brands of haute couture dresses, rather than tailor-made dresses, these dresses are often mature, many girls can't control it, making people feel that the clothes are borrowed, do not belong to them, and their own dresses are completely designed for this ball, and their age and temperament are particularly matched, it is simply perfect!

Mr. Zhang is really a genius, and it is indeed correct to ask him to help design it!

The more she looked, the more satisfied she became, and she was self-absorbed in front of the mirror for a while before she remembered that her mother and Zhang Ran were still waiting outside, and quickly opened the door and smiled apologetically at Zhang Ran.

Although Wintour is known as the female devil, she usually always has a straight face, but in front of her daughter, she is an extremely gentle mother, and she can't help but praise: "This dress is very good, the dress and jewelry are very good, and the makeup is also very good, it is very suitable for this ball." ”

Zhang Ran smiled and bowed, "See Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

"Mr. Zhang, thank you!" Bi Xia Fu pursed her lips and smiled embarrassedly, "I like this dress so much, it's really beautiful!"

Zhang Ran lowered his voice and said: "The night is the most beautiful time, I even have some sympathy for other girls, then all the brilliance will be taken away by you, and everyone will become your foil." Let's go to the ballroom, you'll have to rehearse for tomorrow night's ball!"

"Let's go!" Bishafer smiled and reached out to the crook of his arm.

The general process of the Cleon ball is that on the first day, the girls try on clothes, choose accessories, pick shoes, and practice dancing, and on the second day, they take individual and group photos, and are interviewed by many media.

Zhang Ran and his party came to a banquet hall on the first floor, which was very large and could accommodate hundreds of people. At this time, there were already quite a few girls in bright costumes practicing their dance steps in preparation for tomorrow night's ball. Zhang Ran raised his eyes and swept it, making people have to sigh that Bai Fumei, who was selected from all over the world, has a good image and temperament, and it shines in front of people's eyes.

When the dancer in charge of dance training saw Zhang Ran and them, he came over and brought Bishafer to the dance floor to guide her in waltzing.

To Zhang Ran's surprise, among the young girls who practiced dance, there were two Chinese faces, one of whom was wearing a purple Oscar-de la Renta dress, and the other girl who was wearing Lang Van Haute Couture did not know who it was.

However, Zhang Ran didn't want to have anything to do with Chen Xiaodan, nor was he interested in asking who the other girl was, so he and Wintour found a place to sit down next to the dance floor and chatted quietly.

Not far away, a middle-aged woman wearing a black suit, thick eyebrows, and thick smoky makeup saw Zhang Ran and walked over, followed by a man in his thirties with a stubble on his face.

When Zhang Ran saw the woman's signature thick eyebrows and smoky makeup, he knew that it was Karin Lofeld, the editor-in-chief of French "Vogue", and the man next to him should be Givenchy's designer Ricardo Tisi.

In 1990, Tom Ford, who was unknown at the time, became a designer at Gucci, and he invited Karin Lofeld to be his stylist. However, Lofeld had no interest in the old-fashioned Gucci, and Tom Ford repeatedly called and invited, but she always refused. But after meeting Tom Ford, she immediately agreed, she felt that Tom Ford was too handsome, and she very much wanted to cooperate with him.

Tom Ford's creations have always been known for their eroticism, and Karin Lofeld is also a mouthful, the two can be said to be like-minded. So, two coquettish guys teamed up to make the old-fashioned Gucci coquettish, glamoury, and vibrant, becoming the sexiest brand in one fell swoop, and successfully saving Gucci from bankruptcy. Tom Ford rose to the top designer, and Karin Lofeld became the editor-in-chief of Vogue France in 2001.

After taking over as the female editor-in-chief of Vogue France, Lofeld continued to play with pornography and sexiness, causing controversy. She once said, "If people look at the pictures I create, they will think that I am a female nymphomaniac." Although Lofeld has caused a lot of controversy because of her style, she has also promoted a number of young designers, one of whom is Ricardo Tisi.

Karin Lofeld walked up to Wintour and smiled, "Anna, long time no see!"

Wintour said with a cold face, "Why did you come here?"

"I love Catherine and I heard that she was going to be at this year's prom. Karin Lofeld noticed Zhang Ran standing beside Wintour, a look of interest flashed in her eyes, and she asked, "This is the designer you trained, King Alexander?"

Wintour said with a cold expression: "He is much better than Alexander. Let me introduce you, he is Zhang Ran, a film director, and the founder of YouTube, and he also founded a particularly popular social networking site in the United States recently!" She said to Zhang Ran: "This is Karin Lofey, the editor-in-chief of French "Vogue"!"

Zhang Ran pursed the corners of his lips, thinking to himself that Wang Daren's boy is so motherly, he actually sees a pure man like me as Wang Daren, this vision is too bad, but he still maintains a smile on his face: "Ms. Lofeld, it's a pleasure to see you!"

"Hello, Mr. Zhang, I know YouTube, it's a very interesting site!" Karin Lofeld, who has always liked handsome guys, smiled and stretched her face over.

Zhang Ran didn't want to come to the face ceremony with his aunt, but people stretched out their faces, and it would be rude to refuse, so he had to stretch his face over, perform a face ceremony, and then squeeze out a smile that was more ugly than crying: "Fly is more interesting, I'm sure you'll like it!"

Karin Lofeld laughed: "I'll definitely see it when I have a chance." You're Catherine's boyfriend?"

Zhang Ran hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, I am in charge of the design of Miss Schaffer's dress with Ms. Guo Pei." After speaking, he introduced: "Ms. Lofeld, this is Ms. Guo Pei, a very famous designer in China. ”

Guo Pei was so excited that both sides of his cheeks were flushed: "Ms. Lofeld, I am your loyal fan, it is such an honor to meet you!"

"Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you!" Karin Lofeld shook Guo Pei's hand, then looked at Zhang Ran, full of surprise, "You also know how to design dresses?"

Zhang Ran said modestly: "I just know a little bit of skin, I think movies and the fashion industry are a match made in heaven, it is difficult for movies to survive at the box office alone, and if you want to survive, you must develop derivatives, and clothing and accessories are a very important part of derivatives, and a director who understands a little design is good for the development of derivatives." ”

Before his rebirth, Zhang Ran once saw a statistic that the global retail sales of movie derivatives reached 250 billion US dollars. Among them, the clothing category generated $37.9 billion, accounting for 15.1% of the global total, followed by toys with $33.7 billion, and fashion accessories with $28.5 billion, which together exceed $100 billion, three times the box office of movies.

The reason why Zhang Ran invested in Wang Daren and kept in touch with people in the fashion circle like Wintour was that he hoped to combine the film with the fashion circle and develop the derivatives market for domestic films. When filming "Time and Space Warrior", he made an attempt in this regard, and the T-shirt designed by Wang Daren with "Maple Blade City" written on the chest sold more than 1 million pieces worldwide, and even brought a wave of Chinese T-shirts.

The reason why Zhang Ran bought one or two floors when he built the cinema was that in addition to the fact that the housing prices are cheap now and will rise sharply in the future, the most important thing is that he hopes to open a derivatives store next to the cinema and vigorously develop the film derivatives market.

Karin Lofeld originally admired Zhang Ran, but after hearing these words, she immediately had a bad impression, in her opinion, fashion is art, and being too commercial is a blasphemy against fashion.

People in the fashion industry know that Karin Lofeld and Wintour don't like each other, in fact, she has no contradiction with Wintour itself, but she thinks Wintour is too commercial, too utilitarian, and too marketable. In the first half of this year, she even publicly ridiculed Wintour on the French "Vogue" for "a hundred years of unchanged children's flower head, big sunglasses, leather, and sitting with her legs crossed and majestic".

Lofeld doesn't even want to see the commercial Wintour, how can he see the commercial Zhang Ran. She frowned, ignored Zhang Ran, looked at Wintour, and said puzzledly: "This is Catherine's coming-of-age ceremony, how could you find a layman to design a dress for her?"

Wintour replied lightly: "Zhang is not a layman, even Galliano said that he is a genius, I like the dress he designed for Catherine!"

Karin Lofeld stared at the skirt on Bishafer's body, and said disdainfully: "Anna, you have a business cooperation with this Mr. Zhang, otherwise how could Catherine wear such a dress to the ball? This dress is very beautiful, but it has nothing to do with fashion." Fashion is a small part of what can be worn, and a large part of what can only be appreciated and aspired to be worn by a large part of the can't afford to wear, fashion is leading, and there are things with the designer's own ideas and ideas. I'm so sorry for Catherine to wear such a dress to a coming-of-age ball!"

The meaning of this sentence is obvious, that is, Zhang Ran's skirt design style is backward and has nothing to do with fashion, Anna Wintour has a commercial cooperation with Zhang Ran, so she let her daughter wear this skirt that she thinks is very old-fashioned.

Zhang Ran didn't know where he offended this woman, so he said it so ugly, frowned and said: "I think the coming-of-age ceremony ball has a traditional color, it needs to be matched with classical traditional elegance, I think this event should be respected, and every girl will have a princess dream, this is their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to realize their dreams, dress them up like real princesses, let them meet the prince, this will be the most beautiful memory of their lives, so the princess dress is the most suitable choice." ”

Wintour looked at Karin Lofeld and raised her eyebrows, revealing a mocking smile: "Karin, as an artist, you didn't even see the art of this dress, I really regret for you, or you should take a look at it again!"

Hearing Wintour say this, Karin Lofeld realized that she might have lost her eyes, although Wintour is more commercial, but her understanding of fashion and art is not weaker than herself, there may be something special about this skirt, and immediately beckoned: "Catherine, come here, let me see your dress!"