Chapter 589: The Legendary Dress
After the girls entered, they came to sit down next to their families, and immediately after that, the waiter began to serve the food, and the dinner officially began. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
China is a country of foodies, and France is the only country that can compete with China in terms of food. This dance party is a French feast made by a top French chef with top ingredients, and Zhang Ran is naturally unceremonious and eats a lot.
Zhang Ran finished eliminating the lamb in front of him, raised his head and found that the things in front of Bishafu had barely moved, and when he turned his head to look at the other girls, the dishes in front of him had barely moved. He couldn't help but think of the movie "Gone with the Wind", Scarlett put on a beautiful dress in order to stretch out her thin waist, and ate a little bit like a bird at the ball.
He sighed in his heart, the girls are really fighting hard to maintain their image! It's still good for my family, no matter how much they eat, they don't get fat, and they don't need to go on a diet!
Half an hour later, the charity auction began. The main purpose of the Cleon Ball is to donate money to charity, and charity auctions are inevitable. However, because it is an auction at the dinner party, the auction will definitely start when everyone has eaten almost enough.
The auctioneer was Stephen Bain, the host of the dinner, and the first lot was a bottle of 1905 champagne, which sold for a reserve price of 50 million euros. Many people showed interest in the bottle, and the price climbed after the official auction began, and was finally auctioned off by the president of Bulgari for 40,000 euros.
Most of the items in the auction are related to the fashion industry, with limited edition bags, jewelry, designer manuscripts, and even haute couture dresses. The guests present were either rich or expensive, and for charity, they all opened their pockets and raised their cards one after another.
Next up for auction is a painting by the famous director Akira Kurosawa, provided by Yohji Yamamoto, which was created for the movie "Kage Warrior". The starting price is 10,000 euros. ”
Zhang Ran, who was chatting with Elle Sabo, suddenly looked up when he heard Kurosawa's painting, and when he looked closely, he found that it was a storyboard of "Shadow Warrior". Akira Kurosawa drew more than 200 storyboards for Shadow Warriors, all of which were individual paintings. The painting of the Takeda family's cavalry marching in front of me adopts a symmetrical composition and has a good sense of depth. He was a little surprised that Yohji Yamamoto was a fan of Akira Kurosawa and would donate Akira Kurosawa's storyboard for auction.
Zhang Ran rubbed his hands excitedly and held the auction sign in his hand, as a die-hard fan of Akira Kurosawa, how could he let his idol's paintings fall aside.
"Twenty thousand!" "Forty thousand!" "Fifty thousand!"
Most of the guests at the scene were wealthy people, and Kurosawa's paintings have been exhibited in many world art museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Paris, and they also have collection value, so the guests are relatively active, and the quotation soon reached 150,000 yuan.
Zhang Ran held up the sign and quoted directly: "500,000." ”
Half a million?
The people around were stunned when they heard this number, and this painting was worth 100,000 euros!
In this kind of charity auction, it is basically for charity, and few people are blushing for the sake of fighting for things. After Zhang Ran quoted this price, everyone knew that he really wanted the painting, and no one offered again, and he successfully won Kurosawa's storyboard.
Wintour smiled: "Your offer is too high, others will definitely think you are a big tyrant!"
Zhang Ran said indifferently: "I'm not a local tyrant, but a brainless fan!"
After that, Zhang Ran never raised a card again, and he didn't have much interest in luxury. Zhang Jingchu likes it, but he can't tell if Zhang Jingchu likes these auction styles. If you don't like it, it's wasted to shoot it.
The whole dinner lasted more than 2 hours, and everyone spent more time chatting and socializing. It was almost 11 o'clock, dinner was over, and everyone walked across the room to the dance floor next door.
The lights in the hall of the Palais de Chailfo in Paris dimmed, the noise became incredibly quiet in an instant, and Johann Strauss's "Viennese Temperament" sounded slowly and melodiously. In the center of the dance venue, Chen Yuan, chairman of the China Development and Development Bank, under the attention of hundreds of guests, walked solemnly towards his daughter Chen Xiaodan opposite, and kicked off the official prelude to the dance with a waltz.
The Eiffel Tower, across the Seine, is gracefully reflected in the middle of the large floor-to-ceiling glass windows facing the dance floor, shining with silver light, making the luxury of the scene even more dreamlike. Then, the other 23 fathers also extended invitations to their daughters, who were a few steps away, to dance to the accompaniment of a live band.
At the end of a dance, Shostakovich's Waltz No. 2 sounded, and the fathers gave their daughters' hands to their knights and retreated to the edge of the dance floor, their eyes full of pride and appreciation.
In the melodious and melodious music, the lights on the dance floor gradually dimmed, and the atmosphere of the whole scene suddenly became romantic, and the girls took the knight's hand and prepared to dance.
At this moment, a shocking scene happened, and the skirt on Bishafer's body bloomed with a little bright light. These little bits of light are intertwined with each other, like a brilliant galactic meal around the body.
All of a sudden, almost everyone's eyes were attracted by this stunningly beautiful dress, and even their brains crashed. They opened their mouths wide in a daze, but they couldn't say a word.
After a few seconds, someone in the crowd exclaimed, "Glow-in-the-dark dress, God, fairy tale glow-in-the-dark dress!"
Everyone else came to their senses, and the whole scene buzzed, like thousands of bees had been released, and the exclamations and chatters continued to sound.
"God, she's so beautiful, she's a princess from a Dinis movie!"
"This dress is so beautiful, it's almost suffocating!"
"It's like putting a crystal on my body, my heart is going to melt!"
"She's wearing the Milky Way on her body, and that's so beautiful? How did she do that?"
Almost all of them were deeply shocked by the miraculous dress in front of them, and the other 23 girls also opened their mouths in surprise, completely stunned, even Bishafer's knight Mark.
Glow-in-the-dark skirts are not unusual, and the clothes are painted with fluorescent powder to have a luminous effect, but now the skirt on Bishafer's body is not the kind of low green luminous, it has a transparent feeling in the luminous light, and the whole skirt seems to be made of crystal, especially like the crystal skirt worn by Cinderella in the Disney cartoon.
When many designers present saw the skirt on Bishafer's body just now, they were very unimpressed, thinking that the design was outdated and not fashionable enough. They were very puzzled as to why Wintour would let his daughter wear such a dress. Now they finally know why Wintour chose this dress, this designer is nothing short of genius!
Elle Sabo's design has always been known for its flowing and fairy dress, known as the fairy skirt, and now he sees the skirt on Bishafer's body, and feels that his fairy style is simply weak, this is the real fairy dress! He excitedly grabbed Zhang Ran's arm and asked, "Zhang, how did you do this, is it a special fabric, or is it a special device?"
Zhang Ran replied with a smile: "It is a new type of transparent organza containing optical fibers, in order to maintain the brightness, 30 mini batteries are sewn into the skirt to provide light source energy, and the waist and other brighter places are embellished with LEDs. ”
In the middle of the dance floor, Bishafer's knight Mark recovered from his shock and said in an incredulous tone, "It's so dreamy, you're like a princess coming out of a pumpkin cart, it's amazing!
Bishafu was happy when he heard this: "There is no fairy godmother, but there is a fairy godfather!"
Mark was also happy: "Your Royal Highness Princess, let's dance!"
Bishafer smiled and nodded, jumping up with Mark. Under the cover of glow-in-the-dark dresses, they dance, and the whole atmosphere is romantic and dreamy, almost like a scene from a Disney movie.
The other 23 girls present did not move, and watched with envy as Bishafer and Mark danced. Their hearts were envious and broken, and they truly realized what it means to be overshadowed.
Guo Pei looked at Bi Xia Fu, then at the other girls, and said to Zhang Ran with a smile: "Hurry up and pack your luggage and run!"
Zhang Ranqi said: Why?"
Guo Pei looked at the helpless parents and said, "If I were the parents of other girls, I would definitely kill you, because this skirt made my daughter a complete foil, and you ruined my daughter's coming-of-age ceremony!"
Zhang Ran felt that this seemed to make some sense, and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead: "You said too much!"
Karin Lofeld is also a woman, and when she was a girl, she also fantasized about dancing with the prince in a beautiful crystal dress, and in this moment, she felt as if her girlish heart had been resurrected. Now she understands why Zhang Ran designed the skirt like this, except that the princess dress is more suitable for the ball, in fact, she just wants to create a contrast effect, the originally ordinary skirt, as soon as the lights dimmed, it was suddenly amazing, and there was a feeling of Cinderella transformation!
Now Karin Lofeld is convinced that Wintour is not exaggerating, this is really a design that can rewrite the history of dresses, it is really amazing!
The music stops, and a dance ends.
Hundreds of guests in the audience warmly cheered their hands and gave the most sincere applause to Bishafer. The lights and flashing lights are connected together, which makes Bishafer's eyes feel a little stinging, but her smile is extremely bright, this kind of glamorous and overwhelming feeling is so beautiful, she really feels like she has become a fairy tale princess!
The reporters at the scene rushed to Bishafer, and some reporters directly handed her the microphone.
"Miss Schaffer, your dress is so beautiful, may I ask which designer designed it?"
"Miss Schaffer, may I ask if it was designed by Hussein Karajan?"
The eyes of many ladies present were focused on Bishafer, almost all women had the dream of wearing a crystal dress when they were children, and now the legendary skirt really appeared in front of them! They pricked up their ears and waited for Bishafer's answer, wondering which designer designed it, and they also wanted to have such a perfect dress.
Bishafu looked at Zhang Ran outside the crowd and said with a smile: "It was designed by Mr. Zhang!"
In an instant, Zhang Ran became the focus of the crowd, and was instantly surrounded by reporters, who threw out questions about clothing like cannons.
Zhang Ran raised his voice and said loudly: "Gentlemen, ladies, I just provided the idea of the dress, mainly Ms. Guo Pei is responsible for the design, you should ask her about the costume!"
As soon as the reporters heard this, they immediately threw the question to Guo Pei, and Zhang Ran took this opportunity to squeeze out of the encirclement and get rid of the entanglement of the reporters.
It's just that before Zhang Ran could catch his breath, he saw Karin Lofeld walking towards him with a cold face, and the corners of his mouth twitched, Auntie, I want to tear you to find Wintour, I am not interested in tearing you up. But when Karin Lofeld stepped up to him and looked at him with a strange look, he smiled and said, "Lady Lofeld, is there something wrong?"
Karin Lofeld suddenly laughed, stretched out her hand, and said: "Anna is right, this dress will be written into history, it will broaden the boundaries of clothing, it will combine fashion with technology, and installation art! Galliano is right, you're a genius!
Zhang Ran felt that Karin Lofeld was sincere, and thought to herself that this woman was really amazing, no wonder so many people would support her after being expelled from "Vogue", shook her hand, and said, "Thank you, Ms. Lofeld!"