Tang Ning paused for a moment and continued: "Another important reason is that China has always implemented a limited supply system, and each person only has 16 feet of cloth per year. Moreover, China pursues frugality, paying attention to the new three years, the old three years, and the sewing and mending for another three years! So if you want to develop fashion in such a country, I think it's too difficult. ”

Pierre Cardin shook his head and said, "Tony, allow me to call you that." There's a little story I don't know if you've heard of, it is that there are two shoe salesmen who arrived in a country together, but all the people in the country don't wear shoes, so one of the salesmen exclaimed, oh my God! There was no way to sell shoes in such a place, so he left; And the other salesman exclaimed, Oh my God! This market is completely untapped, and it's a godsend! So he stayed, and as a result, he became the largest shoe merchant in the country. Do you have any thoughts after listening to this story? ”

Tang Ning complained in his heart, I don't want to tell this story in my last life, I have used it countless times in my composition, and it is still a junior high school composition, and I am embarrassed to use such an old-fashioned joke in high school, and now people can take it as a new thing. Although he was complaining in his heart, he had a deep understanding of the Chinese, especially Chinese girls' enthusiasm for fashion, before crossing, especially in Chengdu, there are almost no clothes that girls dare not wear, so he nodded and said: "Okay, then let's try, but the first step, we can't recruit people hard, but need to guide everyone's thinking, I think we can open a fashion exhibition first, let everyone see what real fashion is like." ”

Pierre Cardin clapped his hands and applauded, "Tony." It's a genius idea, I'm going to arrange this catwalk, and I'm sure they won't refuse my invitation as long as they see the charm of fashion. ”

Tang Ning hurriedly stopped: "Mr. Cardin, there are two points that you must pay attention to. First, the fashion on display must not be too avant-garde. Otherwise, the Chinese people will not be able to accept it for a while. Second, the models you choose should all be Oriental, so that everyone is more acceptable in terms of body shape and skin color. ”

Speaking of Downing, he was also very lucky, it was impossible for him to apply for a fashion show at all, but it happened that Deng XX visited the United States some time ago, and in an arena in Texas, he generously put on a white cowboy hat sent by two female knights, this symbolic detail not only triggered enthusiastic reports around the world. Moreover, it also made the officials change their previous wait-and-see attitude, and they happily allowed this performance.

However, there are also some restrictive requirements for performances: the performances are not reported or promoted, and they should be as low-key as possible; It is not open to the public, and only officials and professionals in the foreign trade and clothing circles are limited to "internal observation"; When issuing tickets, all units should strictly control the selection of audiences with "excellent ideological quality", and all seats should be numbered, names should be recorded, and private transfer of admission tickets is not allowed.

These demands annoyed Pierre Cardin: "No reporting, no publicity, and a low profile!" So why am I doing this? It is not yet open to the public. So who am I looking for this fashion show? And an audience with excellent ideological quality, can he understand fashion? ”

Tang Ning hurriedly stopped: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, you can't eat a fat man in one bite." Well, it should be said that Rome was not built in a day. Anyway, it's a good thing to have this first fashion show, and it's a little bit of a bit in the future. ”

A week later, in a side hall of the Palace of National Culture in Beijing, the first fashion exhibition of the new China finally began. However, what made Downing a little depressed was that the old guy Pierre Cardin didn't listen to him at all, not only did most of the models selected be French, but the fashions he chose to exhibit were also extremely Westernized, with a lot of bare chests and arms. There was even a model with a very good figure, when she came out to perform, there was only a cloak outside, and when she walked to the middle of the stage and slid the cloak down, the whole perfect figure was exposed, and many gay men on the spot all lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at it at all, while the lesbians exclaimed, seeing this scene, Tang Ning scratched her head with sorrow, no need to ask, something must have happened after this exhibition.

In fact, Pierre Cardin caused more trouble than that. Since the model performance will definitely require a change of clothes, the attentive venue manager considers how inconvenient it would be to have a mix of men and women in a large house. So he pulled a curtain in the middle, divided the room in two, and divided it into two dressing rooms for men and women.

But when Pierre Cardin went backstage to check this, he shook his head and stubbornly and kindly insisted that the venue manager get the curtain, saying: "When we are on a fashion show, the designer has to understand the shape of the model, both men and women, they have to change clothes together, and that's our job." ”

As Downing expected, a review article appeared in the newspaper the next day, entitled "The Smell of Foreigners' Farts," in which "China's food and clothing problem has not yet been achieved, and the introduction of fashion models is purely superfluous." ”

In fact, it was not only the model performances that were boycotted and criticized during that period, some people thought that Li Guyi's "Hometown Love" was a "yellow song", saying that continuing to sing it would lead to "the death of the country"; Some people think that Su Xiaoming's "Night at the Military Port" will "weaken the revolutionary fighting spirit", and think that sailors should stand guard for the motherland, how can they sleep while standing guard? Criticizing young people wearing bell bottoms as "blindly imitating the Western bourgeois way of life", some local governments have even issued direct announcements prohibiting young people wearing bell bottoms from entering government buildings

However, Tang Ning was somewhat relieved that although these audiences were strictly censored, when they walked out of the National Culture Palace, most of the men unbuttoned their style and discipline, and some bold girls even lifted their skirts, revealing snow-white knees

In any case, with this performance at the bottom, the next invitation work was finally smoother, and finally the model was recruited by taking product promotion as the main performance task, but the name was not called a model, but a "fashion actor". (To be continued.) )