According to Eric's proposed project plan, the Victoria's Secret show must be broadcast before the winter break of the TV series in early December, which can not only get the best ratings and advertising effects, but also lead a wave of sales boom in the New Year's consumption season, so as to achieve the effect of killing multiple birds with one stone.

The annual show also took a month of post-production from recording to playback, and because it was the first time that such a large-scale annual catwalk was held, and the pre-preparation and rehearsals required months of preparation, so even though it was only late June, the project was launched, so that Eric could also schedule his time more calmly among other busy matters.

Firefly Studios, the yet-to-be-opened Studio 11, has been set up as a project studio according to Eric's requirements.

At this time, Eric was in a small conference room separated from the studio, explaining the plans of the entire Victoria's Secret show to Emily Brighton and other LTD executives who had arrived from New York and his own royal production team.

“…… The whole Victoria's Secret show is actually equivalent to a large-scale commercial, and the audience we have to face this time is neither the editor of a fashion magazine nor the buying director of a chain store, but the ordinary audience in front of all the TV sets. It is impossible to expect the average person to be able to tell how good a model's tablecloth is, nor can we expect them to determine the market prospect just by looking at a set of internal design styles. What we have to do is to give them what they want to see: exquisite and perfect flesh, gorgeous and gorgeous stage, bright and catchy music. My goal is to make the Victoria's Secret show an Oscar in the fashion industry, only the best supermodels can appear on this stage, and I want to make everyone think of supermodels. can be associated with the Victoria's Secret show. And not a title given by a few fashion magazines at random. ”

Eric finished with a brief introduction. The senior management of LTD and Eric's royal team raised their own questions, and Eric patiently answered them one by one, and everyone discussed for more than an hour to roughly understand the effect that Eric needed.

Before I knew it, the sound of a warbler and a swallow outside the conference room had sounded, and a staff member knocked on the door and said, "Mr. Williams, Miss Brighton, the models have arrived." ”

"So. I'll be here today first, and I'll take the time to discuss the details with you," Eric clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Of course, if you want to see beautiful women, you can also stay, there are definitely some of the most beautiful beauties in the world outside." ”

Everyone giggled and got up, Eric's royal production team now has their own work to do, of course it is impossible to stay, even several high-level executives of LTD are specially flown from the headquarters. After this meeting, we must immediately return to New York and other places.

The two who stayed the most were Eric and Emily. There is also Victoria's Secret creative director Edward Lazek, who was specially named by Eric, Edward Lazek has been in charge of the production of the Victoria's Secret show since 1992, but in Eric's opinion, the real maturity period of the Victoria's Secret show should be after 07 and 08, most of which were in the exploration stage, and the Victoria's Secret show before 2000 is basically no different from ordinary fashion shows. Eric plans to directly adopt the program model of the Victoria's Secret Show after 2010 this time, but he can't always be in charge of the project, and the producer Edward Lazekra from the original time and space will come over to participate in the operation of the whole project, and he can also hand over the Victoria's Secret Show to the other party in the future.

After the people attending the meeting gradually left, Emily asked the remaining members of the main creative team to go out to prepare temporarily, leaving only Eric and Edward Lazek, and then took out a prepared document, handed it to Eric, and said: " This is a list of 40 people that Edward and I have privately selected, including a few of the in-house models that we have signed, and the rest are from other modeling agencies, this time there are more than 80 people from Elite and Ford alone, and there are 150 candidates from other agencies. LTD works very closely with these agencies, and we can't afford to offend them, so the ostensible promise is to let you pick them yourself, and you can focus on these people when you audition, and if you think other models are good, why not adjust them at any time. ”

Eric had only asked Emily to prepare a team of about forty people, and he was a little surprised by the sudden appearance of so many people, but after learning the reason, Eric just nodded casually. The fashion industry and the modeling industry have always been closely linked, and mid-range fashion brands like LTD really don't want to mess with industry giants like Elite and Ford for fear of being criticized in the future advertising process. But these things are not a problem on Eric's side.

When Eric opened the list, Emily said: "There is also the matter of spokespersons, the five spokespersons you proposed, we have signed Linda Evangelista and Christy Trilington, Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell have also expressed interest in the spokesperson of Victoria's Secret, but they don't want to waste too much time on this big show, especially Cindy Crawford, I heard that she has signed a big-budget contract with Warner, and there is not much time left for the catwalk." ”

In the 1990 issue of Vogue magazine, which published photos of five of the most influential fashion models and for the first time publicly used the title of 'supermodel', Emily was just mentioned by name as four of the five, the last of whom was German supermodel Tagana Partiz who was already in retirement. Originally, Claudia Schiffer would fill the vacancy left by Tagana Patiz, but because of Eric's appearance, Claudia has given up her modeling career and moved to Hollywood.

Although these supermodels have attracted the fashion world, Eric is not too serious. The Victoria's Secret show originally had the nickname of 'the end of the supermodel era', because many fashionistas in later generations criticized the Victoria's Secret show for greatly reducing the gold content of supermodels and reducing it to sensationalizing mass entertainment. But at the same time, no one dares to deny a single point. That is, it is difficult for models who have not appeared on the Victoria's Secret show to win the title of supermodel. And in the annual salary list of models in previous lives. The top 10 are basically models who came out of the Victoria's Secret show.

Hearing Emily say this, Eric said, "Since the two of them don't want to participate in the catwalk, forget it, it just so happens that we can train the other three spokespersons by ourselves." ”

Edward Lazek said: "Eric, Naomi Campbell may not care, but I think it's better to talk to Miss Cindy Crawford, who is the most popular of the top models. ”

Eric closed the roster and smiled at Edward Razek, "Edward. You have to remember that from now on, Victoria's Secret says which supermodel is the most popular and which supermodel will have real popularity, and since they have given up this opportunity, they will never want to be on this stage again. ”

With that, Eric picked up the roster and walked outside. Emily deliberately stopped, and waited for Eric to walk out of the room before she said to the somewhat embarrassed Edward Lazek, "Edward, don't mind. This guy is always so self-righteous sometimes, but most of the time. It turned out that he was right. ”

Of course, Edward Lazek couldn't mind, and he didn't think he was qualified to mind anything with a big man like Eric, and when he heard Emily's comfort, Edward couldn't help but say, "Emily, is that what you told me the other day true?"

"What?" Emily was stunned, but quickly thought about it again, and nodded: "Of course it's true, although Eric can be the director himself this year, it is absolutely impossible to do it all the time, he seems to hate doing certain things repeatedly, and he is not even willing to direct "Jurassic Park 2" himself." So next year's big show is likely to be in your hands, so you'd better brace yourself and jot down any details of that guy. ”

Having received a definite answer, Edward Lazek's apprehensive mind finally settled and said, "Emily, would it be possible for us to get Miss Claudia Schiffer back on stage without Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford?

It's a good idea, but it's unlikely, and with most of Claudia Schiffer's focus now on Hollywood and her salary has risen to $5 million, she's unlikely to waste months on a fashion runway. ”

Edward Lazek smiled and lowered his voice, "If we were to talk, of course there was no possibility, but what if Eric came forward to say hello?"

Emily was stunned for a moment, then her eyes lit up, and she said, "That's a good idea, I'll try it later." ”

Chatting about this, Edward Lazek and Emily walked out of the conference room together, hesitated, but Edward still found an interface to the bathroom, came to a no-man's land, dialed a phone and said something quickly.

……

Different from the actor audition room, the model audition room is more like a professional photography studio, in order to be able to show the stage effect of the models more intuitively, there is no shortage of background cloths, fill lights, and softboxes in the large room, Eric feels as if he has returned to the era of entering the advertising agency to shoot print ads in his previous life, but this time, he no longer needs to do it himself, just one sentence, someone will hold up the world's best top models and choose them at will.

In the thick roster, in addition to the two supermodels who have been confirmed, there are also some familiar names in previous lives, Heidi Krum, Tyra Bankes, Kate Moss, etc. Compared to the first few years, Eric has developed immunity to beautiful women at this time, after all, things that are too easy to get will inevitably make people gradually lose interest in chasing, perhaps this is why the proportion of homosexuals in Hollywood and the fashion industry is so high.

Hearing Emily's idea of getting Claudia back on the runway, Eric nodded, "That's a good idea, I'll contact Claudia to see if she has a schedule, if not, I'll have to forget it." ”

Emily said, "You speak in person, can she still have a schedule?"

Eric shrugged and said, "I'm trying to be an empathetic Qingren, not a tyrant. ”

"Oh, you're so happy," Emily teased, and then said, "You haven't been to New York to see Kevin and Xia Xia in months?"

Eric countered: "A woman in her thirties who refuses to marry or have children is not in a position to accuse me. ”

There were staff members all around, and the two of them had just begun to quarrel and invariably stopped the topic.

Now that most of the list has been decided, the so-called interview is actually just a formality, not to mention those bold flying teasing eyes, many 'accidents' falling to the BRA also made everyone in the audition room a little feasted.

In the interval between the departure of another group of models, Emily finally couldn't help but complain: "What kind of place are they, they don't have to be so impatient to catch Kaizi, right?"

Eric flipped through a page of information and said, "Can you stop looking at me when you use the word 'Kaizi'?"

Emily leaned at Eric and said, "Don't blame me for not reminding you, Eric, these chicks in the circle don't have a fuel-efficient lamp, and if you mess with them, they won't mind exposing your bed performance and size in gossip magazines in order to hype up their fame." ”

"Well, you've managed to scare the hell out of me," Eric also made a small meat joke.

Emily spat and then instructed the staff to call the next group of models in.

Three tall figures dressed in Victoria's Secret new Inner Yi rushed in, and Eric noticed the blonde beauty standing in the middle at a glance, and flipped through the list of internal orders pressed under the information, but did not find the other party's name.

Eduard Lazek routinely asked the three models to introduce themselves, walked around the tablecloth, and then began to ask some questions.

Eric approached Emily with a copy of the document and asked in a low voice: "This, why is Diane Kruger not on the list, she is the winner of the German section of the 1992 Elite Model Competition, and all kinds of conditions should be great?"

Emily glanced at the photo, looked up for a moment at Diane Kruger's tablecloth, and then bowed her head again and said, "She was indeed on the primary list, but we eliminated her according to your original request?"

Eric was momentarily confused: "My request?" (To be continued.) )