No one else knows what Sid and Arnhorn Milkan talked about about Turkey, but the look of excitement on Arnhorn Milkan's face when he left was telling.

But then, for Sid and the crew, the real journey has just begun, and the filming of "The Departed" has a long way to go.

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Just when Sid and the crew of "The Departed" were absent from Hollywood's daily party in March, the most intensive of the awards season, this year's Victoria's Secret show preparation meeting also began at the New York headquarters.

Mark Lee, Frida Janani and show director Todd Thomas all came together, but this was the prep meeting, in addition to the usual creative crew.

There are also some new members, and the personnel of Fire Lion TV are mainly engaged in TV recording and related planning, and in addition, there are ...... this year

"This is Garland, the CEO of IMG Models, and he's going to be in charge of the modeling handover with us. "Victoria's Secret's CEO Mark Lee officially began today's meeting after introducing the new IMG model CEO Garland.

"At the moment, the most important issue is the theme of the show and the design of the costumes. Mark Lee began.

Although after the quality of the Victoria's Secret show declined in later generations, various media and melon-eating people have summarized their experiences and lessons from all aspects, and their enthusiasm is no less than that of movie audiences who discuss "why DC is not as good as Marvel".

Some of them say that Internet celebrities have replaced supermodels, catwalks have become shopping, and there is even a certain "supermodel" who wrestles on the ground in front of his home.

The original high-end and glamorous sexy catwalk has become a scissorhands, cheaper than love flying all over the sky.

But in fact, for a catwalk, especially a very creative, performative and entertaining catwalk like Victoria's Secret, the model can only play the role of icing on the cake after all, and it is impossible to turn things around.

What really determines the level and quality of a show is the designer team, or in other words, the leading designer himself. And Victoria's Secret really began to decline, which started with the innovation and decline of the standard of show clothes, as for the battle between models and Internet celebrities, that is still a later matter.

It's like Chanel every few years, it can always arouse the popularity of the fashion circle, not because of the big-name models such as Giselle to walk the catwalk, but because of the fashion emperor Galeries Lafayette.

Therefore, Victoria's Secret under the leadership of Sid will never do that kind of stupid thing of sacrificing the basics, and the historical Victoria's Secret, whether it rises or falls, is inseparable from the departure and stay of Todd Thomas, an elite designer.

Therefore, Mark Lee has also agreed to a preferential employment contract with Todd Thomas according to Sid's instructions.

After the first two years of the big show process, the Victoria's Secret show has now formed its own process, in which the tone of the theme is the highest priority.

And then whether it is the design of the venue, or the selection of models, it is based on this.

After all, the theme, shape, and color of the show clothes are closely related to the overall design, and there will also be a natural preference for the skin color and temperament of the interpretation model.

And the angry Todd Thomas has also done a good job of the first case.

"Neon plastic. ”

Under the lightning-like neon lights, the sharp, slightly punk-inspired plastic wings look trendy and bright.

Whether it's a red sharp wing or a blue wing, it's full of novelty. And the clothes on this theme are not only made of plastic, but also embroidery and floral designs borrowed from Frida Janani's haute couture lingerie before.

Mark and the others even saw a show dress embroidered with a Chinese dragon pattern.

"Pattern lace. ”

Different from the slightly monotonous black and white lace in ordinary people's impressions, Todd Thomas boldly introduced a variety of colors such as black, white and red in the first draft, and also added a variety of different elements such as French corset and modern interest to design different show clothes.

And the designer is not overly immersed in creating a complex lace collection, but uses the elements of simplicity and lace to a certain extent, so that this link does not look the same.

Moreover, in this part of the performance, Todd Thomas also added his own ideas - at the bottom of the runway, plus a dance performance similar to a bar girl.

I have to say that with the run-in in the past two years, there is more and more tacit understanding between Todd Thomas's design team and Fire Lion's TV team, as well as the venue design team.

So after seeing Todd Thomas's show costume design, they also began to work with him on other matters related to run-in catwalk design, performance, broadcasting, etc.

And this year, in addition to these same things as before, there are some different new things.

"First of all, we at Victoria's Secret have to cooperate with IMG to set new rules in terms of models. Mark Lee couldn't help but say when it came to modeling.

"Mark, what do you mean?" asked Frida Janani.

Although she is the chief designer of Victoria's Secret, Frida focuses more on the design of the product itself, rather than on the details such as models.

Mark Lee smiled and looked at Garland, the CEO of IMG Models, Garland nodded and stood up and said: "First of all, in terms of Victoria's Secret models, we need to adopt a new system on the basis of the current contracted models and catwalk models-Angels and Archangels. ”

"Archangel?" Todd Thomas was also stunned, and he couldn't help muttering: "We are not a religious group, Victoria's Secret Angel I know, but what is 'Archangel'?"

"Angel refers to contracted models, while Archangel is a super-potential model that we at Victoria's Secret and IMG, as well as the whole group, will focus on cultivating. Garland explained.

"As for the difference in the Victoria's Secret show, only angels can wear wings, and only archangels can interpret the 'dream bra'. ”

The so-called dream bra is an annual ultra-luxurious, diamond bra that began in the late 90s.

Although it has this gimmick, Victoria's Secret was obviously only a mid-range and nameless women's underwear brand before, so it was not necessarily a contracted model who performed the dream bra, such as Gisele's debut in 2000, when she became popular, she directly wore the ruby dream bra at that time as an unsigned model.

"But if only the archangel can wear a dream bra, then if we want to absorb the newly popular models like Giselle did back then, wouldn't it be difficult?" asked one of the Victoria's Secret managers.

"It's simple. Garland smiled slightly, "If it was before, it would be really difficult to rely on Victoria's Secret ability alone, but now IMG will also be involved, so this problem is not so difficult to solve." ”