The National Fashion Design Competition, sponsored by the Huaxia Garment Association, is the most authoritative, most influential, and most concerned fashion design competition in the country.

Around New Year's Day, the organizers received thousands of emails from all over the country.

By January 6, the organizers had received tens of thousands of submissions.

The preliminary competition was presided over by the vice president of the Huaxia Garment Association, looking at the latest statistical results, the vice president smiled: "This year's entries received more than 1,000 more than last year, it seems that this year's competition will be greater." ”

Every year's competition is a battle of dragons and tigers, with cutting-edge designers who have become famous, as well as dark horses who were previously unknown.

"This shows that there is a lot of fresh blood in our industry." The other judges laughed and agreed.

The vice president nodded, and said, "The results of the preliminary round will be released within half a month, so everyone should hurry up." ”

The background automatically distributes the entries to each judge's computer, and the vice president speaks, turns on the computer, and comments and scores from the first work.

Because of the comment session, at the end of the day, the vice president only finished reading 100 works.

However, it is a pity for her that although there are several works that can catch her eye today, none of them can make her feel bright.

There are also some works, which are obviously fishing in mixed waters, at most the most basic design has been completed, and it is not even a finished draft, so the vice president can't help but laugh and cry.

For the next few days, the previous work was repeated.

On this day, near noon, the vice president finished correcting the work in front of him, and planned to go to the lunch break first and then come back to continue revising.

Just as she was about to turn off the computer, a judge surnamed Su in front of her suddenly let out an exclamation.

"The color of this work is so special."

Particularly?

This word immediately made the vice president spirited.

She needed something special right now to spark her passion.

"I'll see how special it is."

"Come on, come on." Judge Su directly turned the computer around, "The design is quite bold, but it is also very outstanding, it can be seen that he is a very thoughtful designer, not stuck to one style, and the overall design is also in line with the mainstream aesthetics." ”

I haven't seen the design drawings yet, but Judge Su's comment has already made the vice president feel interesting.

The vice president has met a lot of costume designers.

They are bold and avant-garde, not bound by mainstream aesthetics, and may be popular for a while, but it is difficult to last long.

The mainstream aesthetics not only represent the aesthetics of the judges, but also the aesthetics of the majority of consumers.

Truly smart designers tend to build on the mainstream aesthetic and further transcend the mainstream aesthetic.

Full of anticipation, the vice president looked at Judge Su's computer.

Then, she froze.

"This work—"

In front of the work, the skirt is designed with several layers.

But the bottom skirt is boldly made of glossy black.

On the contrary, the outermost skirt chose a dull dark blue.

Between the skirts, the golden gradient beads and the white gradient diamonds complement each other, as if a whole vast galaxy has fallen.

Such a color scheme looks a little abrupt at first glance, but it can't help but make people look at it a few more times. After a closer look, I was surprised that it was just right.

If I had to use one word to describe it, it would be "attracting attention".

"Do you think this dress looks like something?" Judge Su laughed and teased.

"Yes."

The vice president frowned.

The name of the thing was on her lips, but she couldn't say it for a while.

"Starry sky."

"I looked at the designer's explanation, and the name of this work was originally called Stars, and finally after several revisions, the designer decided to name it Starry Sky."

The vice president smiled: "This name is also very bold. ”

Judge Su also laughed: "It seems to be very appetizing to you." ”

"yes. I think this dress is designed for people my age. To be honest, I want to have a dress like this. The vice president sighed.

It's really on her appetite. Both the skirt itself and the designer of this one.

The other judges also finished their work one after another, and when they saw that the vice president and Judge Su were chatting energetically, they all gathered around.

"There are no obvious shortcomings in all aspects of the design, and the color scheme and the design of the skirt completely constitute the highlight of the whole skirt, which is the best one I have seen."

"What a vivid dress."

"Yes, yes, yes, it is vivid, and the designer is very aura. What is the name of the other party, and is it a designer who has recently become famous. ”

Judge Su: "I remember being a college student. ”

The vice president raised his eyebrows: "Actually a college student?" Which school? ”

She originally thought that the age of this designer should be close to the highest standard of 30 years old, so she could grasp the female aesthetics of the age of 30 to 45 years old so well.

Judge Su looked at the computer screen and read out the designer's prefix and name.

"A senior in the fashion design department of University A, Yao Shiyun."

Yao Shiyun didn't know that she was being discussed by the judges.

After handing in the first draft, she put aside the competition for the time being and began to prepare for her final exams and graduation project.

Because of the previous accumulation, neither of these things is difficult for her.

Soon, she ushered in the last winter vacation of her college career.

On the first day of the holiday, Yao Shiyun rarely stayed in bed, and slept directly until noon, and finally woke up at Yao Rong's knock on the door.

Glancing at the phone, Yao Shiyun, who was still stunned, immediately woke up, sat up from the bed suddenly, and rubbed her long hair into a mess.

She jumped out of bed, put on a cotton towel and walked to open the door.

Outside the door, Yao Rong clasped his arms with both hands: "Why are you getting up late today?" ”

She came back from the company, but when she came home, she saw that the door of Yao Shiyun's room was still closed.

Yao Shiyun covered her face: "Isn't there a preliminary result today, I'm a little excited in the middle of the night, so I ...... I couldn't help but chase a few episodes of the show......"

"Let's go wash up." Yao Rong smiled, "Is it okay to eat steak, I'll make it for you." ”

"As long as you do it, it's okay."

Yao Rong tapped her forehead, turned around and went downstairs to the kitchen.

The steak is not difficult to make, Yao Rong simply fried the fries, and finally squeezed a cup of orange juice, and when she went out with the food plate, Yao Shiyun had already set up the napkin and sat at the table obediently.

Today's meal was eaten relatively early, and the two of them finished eating, and there were still two minutes before it reached eleven o'clock.

When Yao Shiyun took his computer downstairs, the time for the results to come out.

She began to type in the URL of the search result, her name, and the entry number, and waited patiently for the page to jump.

In fact, he didn't have to wait long, almost in the blink of an eye, Yao Shiyun saw his achievements.

[Yao Shiyun, first in the preliminary round, finalist]

is a very brief sentence, but Yao Shiyun has read it several times.

"You read that right, you're the first in the preliminary round."

As if knowing what Yao Shiyun was thinking, Yao Rong opened his mouth and said to her in a very affirmative tone.

Yao Shiyun closed the computer suddenly, turned around and hugged Yao Rong, and was so excited that she was incoherent: "Mom...... I...... I've thought about it, I've really thought I'm going to be number one...... But you know what, I'm just thinking about ......"

Number one.

The first to stand out from so many contestants across the country.

Even though this is only the preliminary round, it is still a very big encouragement and affirmation for her.

Yao Rong patted her back lightly again and again, and said with a smile: "You are the number one who deserves your name." Next time, you can think more exaggerated. ”

Yao Shiyun, who was still secretly excited, was amused by this sentence: "Next time? Isn't that the next time a rematch? ”

"I've won the first place in the preliminary round, add a lot of oil, and then take the first place in the semi-final, and then I will charter the entire hotel to give you a celebration banquet." Yao Rong did not hesitate to set high goals for Yao Shiyun.

Yao Shiyun imagined that picture, and was even happier, and got out of Yao Rong's arms: "Anyway, keep working hard, this is only half of the Long March." ”

As he was talking, Yao Shiyun's mobile phone rang.

Looking at the word "counselor" in the remarks on the phone reminder, she knew that it was a call from the counselor to ask about her grades, so she quickly picked up the phone.

After learning of Yao Shiyun's results, the counselor laughed out loud: "Yao Shiyun, you have won glory for the school too much!" ”

The counselor praised Yao Shiyun word for word, and Yao Shiyun was a little embarrassed, so he said another serious thing: "Have you read the questions of the first round of the semi-finals?" ”

The difference between the National Fashion Design Competition and other competitions is that there is no limit to the preliminary round.

Entrants can submit any unpublished work that they are satisfied with.

But when it comes to the semi-finals, its design theme is completely determined by the organizers.

The semi-finals are divided into two rounds.

The first round, which lasted for a month, decided the top 10.

In the first round, the top 10 will go offline and make their own clothes on the spot, and finally the models will put on their clothes and walk the runway, and the judges will score to determine the ranking.

"I'll see later." was reminded by the counselor that Yao Shiyun remembered this incident. I was just happy.

Yao Rong, who was sitting next to her, directly opened Yao Shiyun's computer and helped her board the official website of the competition.

"Design Theme: Everyday Business Wear."

Yao Shiyun pondered: "This topic is very broad. ”

The wider the theme, the harder it is to design.

Because there are already countless industry seniors who have designed this kind of work, it is difficult for latecomers to innovate.

"Think about it, there's still a month to go." Yao Rong didn't give her any advice, just touched her head and encouraged her gently, "If you really can't find inspiration, come and talk to me again." ”

Yao Shiyun couldn't care about being happy, and frowned and began to think about the topic of the rematch.

In the next few days, she wrote and drew in her drawing book, and the related classic shows were all over, but she still didn't have a good idea.

That morning, Yao Rong and Yao Shiyun sat at the dining table for breakfast.

Putting down the spoon, Yao Shiyun said, "Mom, I'll go to the company with you today to have a look." ”

Instead of making no progress on the sketch every day, it is better to go to the site and observe the clothing of the group's employees, and maybe inspiration will come.

When he arrived at the company, Yao Rong went directly to the chairman's office on the top floor, Yao Shiyun took a cup of coffee, sat on the sofa in the hall on the first floor, and watched the flow of people quietly.

I sat down for a whole morning.

Nothing to do.

Yao Shiyun vaguely felt that she had found the wrong direction, but she didn't know where the right direction was.

After thinking about it to no avail, she temporarily chose salted fish, dragged her tired body to the office on the top floor to find Yao Rong for lunch.

The top floor office is very spacious.

Yao's office building is the tallest building in the area.

From here, you can see everything around you.

It's also very quiet, because except for the shareholders' meeting, only Yao Rong and her assistant secretaries are here. So as soon as she got out of the elevator, Yao Shiyun unconsciously lightened her steps.

When the assistant heard the movement, he stepped forward with a smile and told Yao Shiyun softly: "Yao Dong is holding a meeting remotely, and it may take another ten minutes to finish." ”

"No problem."

Yao Shiyun sat all morning, didn't want to sit anymore, just stood by the office door and observed the assistant and secretary.

But the more she observed, the more she felt that something was wrong.

After struggling for a moment, Yao Shiyun gently pushed open the office door.

Yao Rong leaned back in a soft leather office chair and spoke coldly to the person on the other end of the video, but his expression was calm. She is wearing a light gray dress, even if she doesn't frown, she has her own intimidating courage.

Looking at Yao Rong like this, Yao Shiyun's heart moved, and she suddenly knew where she was wrong before.

It was never anyone else she was observing, it was her mother.

In the next few days, Yao Rong found that he had an extra little tail.

Even when she watered the kapok tree, Yao Shiyun would follow her and watch her.

"Haven't you been busy designing clothes lately?" Yao Rong put down the watering can, wiped off the water droplets on the back of his hand, and asked Yao Shiyun casually.

"I'm still thinking about it."

In the past few days, she has had a lot of new inspirations, but these inspirations can only be regarded as good, and none of them can particularly move her.

Yao Shiyun didn't want to talk about design, so she asked Yao Rong why she liked kapok so much.

It was the first time she had asked this question.

When asked for the first time, Yao Rong only smiled and said nothing.

I thought that she still wouldn't hear the answer this time, but before she wanted to change the topic again, she heard Yao Rong caressing the tall trunk of the kapok tree and said with a smile: "Do you know the alias of kapok?" ”

Yao Rong pulled Yao Shiyun to sit directly on the lawn, although the kapok tree was not lush enough, the shade it sprinkled was enough to cover the figures of Yao Rong and Yao Shiyun, in exchange for a coolness for them.

"Kapok, also known as the hero flower. When it blooms, it does not need to be set off by green leaves, it is vibrant, like a fire, and strangely, its flowers are so enthusiastic, but the fragrance of the flowers is extraordinarily light. ”

Yao Rong didn't say many things too bluntly, but the slightly bright touch on his chest reminded Yao Shiyun of the kapok necklace that Yao Rong gave her.

Yao Shiyun took the necklace out from under her clothes.

- So, in my mother's mind, she is like kapok?

After staring at the necklace for a long time, Yao Shiyun raised her head and looked at the kapok tree in front of her that was shading her.

She thought she had finally found the design idea that struck her the most.

This time, after having the design idea, Yao Shiyun's design draft was almost completed in one go.

After refining a few details, Yao Shiyun sent the manuscript to the organizer.

Because only 300 people made it to the semi-finals, the judges' job became much easier.

However, the number of entries has decreased so much, but the number of judges has become quite large.

Each judge needs to look at the 300 works and then rate the 300 works. Finally, the highest score and the lowest score are removed, and the rest is weighted according to the weight.

It took less than three days for the judges to score all the scores, and the top 10 with the highest scores entered the semi-finals.

Soon, the official website of the National Fashion Design Competition announced the names of the finalists.

Yao Shiyun's name is impressively listed.

March 10.

The leaves of the kapok tree began to fall gradually, and small raised buds also grew on the branches, but I don't know when they bloomed.

Yao Shiyun was dressed in light clothes, and dragged two large suitcases around her, which contained the materials she used to make clothes. Although the organizer will have materials available, they are all basic and commonly used materials, and if the contestants want to use some special materials, they still need to purchase additional materials by themselves.

"Let's go." Yao Rong and Yao Shiyun wore the same mother-daughter outfit and wore a sunhat on their heads.

The venue for the first round of the semi-finals is in the capital, and Yao's Group has a branch there, Yao Rong plans to accompany Yao Shiyun over and go to that branch to deal with some affairs by the way.

"Mom, you wait." Yao Shiyun let go of the suitcase and walked briskly through the cobblestone path to the kapok tree. She folded her hands and looked reverent, as if she were asking the kapok tree to bless her with a good ranking.

Soon, she smiled relaxedly, followed Yao Rong on the plane to the capital, and arrived at the hotel in the evening.

Yao Shiyun was not the only player who arrived at the hotel at this time, and there were other people queuing up at the front desk to check in.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Yao Shiyun to go through the formalities.

"Mom, let's go." Because the hotel allows accompanying people to stay together, Yao Shiyun directly asked for a double room.

The mother and daughter chatted and walked to the elevator room, and it just so happened that the elevator had just arrived on the first floor, and a woman dressed in a particularly fashionable way walked out of the elevator.

Yao Shiyun gave her a place.

The woman smiled at Yao Shiyun and walked towards the front desk.

People who met her on the road politely addressed her as "vice president".

When the vice president was about to walk past the front desk, he suddenly remembered something, took two steps back to the front desk, picked up the check-in list and looked through it, and saw that the name "Yao Shiyun" happened to be written at the end of the list.

The girl I just met in front of the elevator was Yao Shiyun?

The vice president was surprised.

She actually likes Yao Shiyun's "Starry Sky" very much, but she is not very optimistic about Yao Shiyun's semi-final results. For no other reason, this kind of design with a clear scope is actually disadvantageous for students.

Perhaps because of this disapproval, when she saw the dress named "Kapok" in the first round of the semi-finals, she was sincerely amazed and a little curious about this designer.

However, she is a judge in the first round of the semi-finals, which is really not suitable for contacting the contestants at this time.

Let's wait until the game is over.