Chapter 080: An Email
To say this, it was originally a secret of the Qu family, but this time it was Qu Lao who took the initiative to drag Ling Anxun into the water, and of course he was responsible for it to the end. Moreover, Ling Anxun is his uncle, since he has openly and honestly shared the key points of these Qujia clothing with his master, he must believe in his uncle Ling Anxun's personality just like he believes in his master, and he will not spread these secrets.
In this way, Qu Lao informed Ling Anxun of these tricks during the banquet, and in order to facilitate Ling Anxun's understanding, he also specially gave Ling Anxun the e-book of "Detailed Explanation of the "Qu's Clothing" Method" that he and his master worked together. This book can be described as a fool's teaching book with pictures and texts, and it was written by Qu Lao to prevent the loss of this skill and to study it together with Bertha. The most valuable thing in the book is that it not only has detailed methods and steps in it, but also has a lot of practical experience accumulated by Qu Lao over the years, which can be said to be the essence of "Qujia Clothing".
However, in order to prevent the e-book from being easily stolen, Bertha added a double password to it, and you need to enter the password in charge of Qu Lao and Bertha at the same time to open it.
As soon as Ling Anxun returned to the ancestral house, he came to the studio across the wall from his bedroom. After using the studio's computer to enter the secure network monitored by the "Guantian" system, Ling Anxun sent a message to Senior Sister Bertha to ask for the password. Ling Anxun thought that he would not receive a reply from Senior Sister Bertha until the next day, but he didn't want Bertha to reply to Ling Anxun immediately. It turned out that at this time, Senior Sister Bertha ended the work at hand ahead of schedule and arrived at Mingzhu today to congratulate Qu Lao on his birthday. She also just learned about the cause and effect of yesterday's incident from Qu Lao. Therefore, in addition to giving Ling Anxun the relevant password, Bertha also said that she and Qu Lao are very much looking forward to seeing the works that combine the design concepts of the Wood school and the traditional craftsmanship of the Qu family.
When Ling Anxun saw Senior Sister Bertha's words of encouragement, he couldn't help but think that it would be better to inject the ancient "Qu's Clothing" into the genes of the Wood faction according to Senior Sister's words, so that he could return with a new image and glory. In this way, it may be possible to make "Qu's clothing" dominate for another century.
Ling Anxun felt that the inspiration at this time was pouring up like a spring, and she hurriedly recorded these inspirations one by one on her computer.
In this way, Ling Anxun read "A Detailed Explanation of the "Qu's Clothing" Method at night, and began to practice and design during the day. Time passed quickly, and at this time, the dress designed by Ling Anxun for Wei Yuheng had already taken shape. However, Ling Anxun didn't get into the studio as usual today, as soon as he got up. Instead, she changed into her favorite athleisure suit, tied her long hair into a ponytail, put on a baseball cap and her smart AI glasses, and carried her shoulders on her back as if she was going to make a move.
As early as 10 days ago, Ling Anxun received an email with an invitation to a competition. As a fairly well-known designer, Ling Anxun often receives such invitations, but she usually only goes to the ones she wants to attend. For this kind of competition invitation that she is not interested in, her usual way of dealing with it is to ignore it. However, just as Ling Anxun was about to transfer the mail to the "wastebasket", she accidentally caught a glimpse of one of the contents inside. It's just that the body is one step faster than the brain, and the mail has been thrown into the "wastebasket" by her. Ling Anxun had no choice but to restore it back.
Clicking on the email in her inbox again, Ling Anxun saw at a glance what she had just glimpsed, as if it was deliberately going to show it in front of her, appearing in the middle of the email. The words "Specially invited designer Li Weiwei" are not only different from others, but also use accentuated bold, which seems to be deliberately showing off in front of Ling Anxun, or provocative.
Ling Anxun couldn't help but shake his head, could this be the narrow road of the legendary enemy? After complaining in his heart, Ling Anxun could finally calm down and read the email carefully. This design competition is not a professional designer competition, but a designer's show, hence the name "design party". The competition has been held for four times so far. At first, it was just a product exhibition held by a few celebrities who had a good relationship and a design brand under their names. Therefore, originally only the model catwalk and star display were arranged. It may be that the first exhibition attracted a large number of fans to the relationship, at the end of the star show, in order to increase the interaction with fans, and in order to push the atmosphere of the show to a climax, a special temporary audience voting session was set up to vote for the most popular costume. The winners will receive benefits to all the spectators present. Unexpectedly, this impromptu approach caused a great response, not only making the exhibition site popular, but also triggering a wave of tap water in social media. People watched the live competition through the live broadcast. The media was also attracted to the exhibition and covered the exhibition. As a result, the stars who launched several exhibitions gained great popularity in the short term, and were called by the media as a model of star crossover.
With the success of the first exhibition, before the exhibition was held the following year, it attracted more celebrities to participate, and several initiating stars discussed, and simply changed the exhibition to this kind of informal competition, still focusing on model catwalk display, and officially joined the selection in the star display link, and the stars explained their works to the audience on the spot and canvassed for votes. The part of voting has expanded from the original single on-site voting to online and offline voting. The majority of netizens can participate through the live broadcast website while watching the live broadcast. This move sparked enthusiasm for the participation of the whole people, and the competition also received more celebrities and media audiences. With the success of the second exhibition, it eventually took on the current name "Design Party". In the end, one piece of work will be won, and the designer will be named "Party King" or "Party Queen" according to gender.
As the "Design Party" becomes more and more famous, more and more people are willing to participate, and even the designer friends of those celebrities are willing to come here to play tickets, the purpose is to take advantage of this event to increase the exposure opportunity in front of the media, so as to enhance their popularity.
Looking at the information about the "Design Party" costume design competition that he had preliminarily found on the "Guantian" system, Ling Anxun preliminarily determined that Li Weiwei's participation may be to revive the majesty of the Li family. According to Ling Anxun's understanding of the Li family, Shengchang Group has been in a slump since the battle in Jincheng a week ago and the complete loss to Jincheng. The old ministers of the group have resigned, and more shareholders and investors have proposed to prepare for the withdrawal of capital from the Li family. On the stock market, Shengchang Group's stock plummeted and had to stop trading. In order to avoid falling into the dilemma of investors and shareholders withdrawing capital and losing the stock market, the Li family now urgently needs a stage to show its ability, so as to inject a dose of strength inside and outside the group.
And this costume design contest called "Design Party" is one of the best choices. The Li family can take advantage of this event to promote their design capabilities in front of the media, so that investors can regain confidence. Once it wins, Shengchang Group can take advantage of it to become popular. And after all, this is an amateur-based competition, and professional designers rarely participate, and those who occasionally participate are just helping celebrity friends stand on the platform and go through the motions. Therefore, if a professional-level player like Li Weiwei participates seriously, it is very winning. Even if she doesn't win the award in the end, she won't be too unable to get off the stage, after all, Li Weiwei is nominally here to accompany her celebrity friends, and if she can win the award, it will naturally be her "accidental".
Although Ling Anxun didn't want the Li family's plan to succeed, there was no good way to make trouble at the moment. When you participate in the competition yourself, you have to go to the front desk and be exposed to the media. This is still early for Ling Anxun, and it is just to deal with Li Weiwei, there is really no need to do this. Just when Ling Anxun was at a loss, the "Sky Viewing" system once again brought him a surprise. It was a design draft of the entries for the contest that was brought up from the backstage of the official website of the "Design Party". The manuscripts and their text descriptions are entered and stored in the background of the website in advance, and will only be uploaded to the official website on the day of the competition for the audience's voting reference. And the powerful spy function of "Guantian" copied these works and displayed them in front of Ling Anxun.
Ling Anxun immediately called up Li Weiwei's work and examined it carefully. Based on her investigation and understanding of Li Weiwei during this time, she doesn't believe that this person will suddenly change his temperament, and she can be serious and down-to-earth in creation, instead of using his indiscriminate means. This time, Li Weiwei participated in a series of works. It contains 12 paintings and is named "Twelve Dreams of Jinling". Women's clothing that combines elements such as beauty, beauty, and vintage, suitable for twelve different occasions. Ling Anxun carefully inspected this set of works, and the idea was good, but the theme of the Twelve Hairpins of Jinling had been adopted by the predecessors many times a long time ago because of people's desire for beauty and romance. Ling Anxun created similar works during her university years, but she designed a series of 12 gowns, incorporating traditional Eastern aesthetics with Western gowns. Although Ling Anxun still seems to have deficiencies in this set of works, it received a lot of praise at that time and won the Academy Award that year.
And Li Weiwei's series is obviously more complex than a single costume, not like it was written by one person. Sure enough, in the description of the work, it was pointed out that this was a work completed by the design team of Shengchang Group under the leadership of Li Weiwei. When Ling Anxun saw this, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart, I am afraid that the eleven and a half works here are all from the pen of others, and the so-called leader Li Weiwei is afraid that even a fraction of the contribution is more. Through the description of the work and her understanding of Li Weiwei's design works, Ling Anxun quickly found the half of the work in her mind. This is the twelfth design work, and it is also the outstanding staple of the series. The description of the work also uses heavy pen and ink for it, and it is a bold exploration to talk about the collision of various design trends. Ling Anxun quickly understood the implication of this sentence, which was simply a piecemeal annotation of plagiarism for Li Weiwei.