1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 55 I was just kidding her!

The National Culture Palace is a tower-shaped building that was built twenty years ago and has a very Mao Zedong style.

The tower in the middle of the building has 13 floors above ground and is 67 meters high. The roof of the central body is coordinated in primary and secondary, and contrasts with the hip roofs of the two wings.

The building is made of white bricks and has a roof of emerald green glazed tiles. It is tall and beautiful. It is a successful example of the combination of traditional and modern architecture in the field of high-rise buildings. It is also a proof of Liang Sicheng's exploration of the ideal of national architectural form in high-rise buildings.

There are four people including Xia Tian and Dachun, six people including Milan, Yu Beibei and Li Bailing, and Ma Xiaojun and his group of five or six people... Wow, there are really a lot of people!

The fashion show started at 10 o'clock, but in summer they went up to the second floor before 8 o'clock - and got in through the window.

Everyone was hiding on the platform on the second floor, just like watching an internal reference movie. There was a kind of hidden taboo excitement~
There were quite a lot of people at this fashion show, probably about two or three hundred, and there were also several reporters with cameras.

In fact, at that time, we were worrying about how to make our textile industry with huge production capacity go abroad and earn foreign exchange, so we attached great importance to this matter.

The people below were all wearing navy blue or black Zhongshan suits, and they looked very formal.

And Mr. Pierre Cardin is so fashionably dressed!
He formed a sharp contrast with the translator beside him and the practitioners waiting for the fashion show below.

Ms. Song Huaijia also wore a dress with a very stylish design, a bright red and black color combination.

This should be the clothes she brought back from abroad. In China now, a red skirt is very rare, and she will attract a lot of attention when walking on the street.

I didn't know whether it should be called a press conference, a clothing exchange meeting, or an audit meeting, but it started very quickly.

A makeshift, unregulated catwalk soon had models appearing in all kinds of "strange costumes"!
Eight French models, four Japanese models, hip-swaying catwalks, shoulders-lifting, waist-hugging dresses...

Some of them smiled brightly, some had a blank expression on their faces. Each of them walked back and forth on the stage in a very professional cat-like manner, showing off their clothes!
The models on the stage were wearing short skirts and colorful clothes, which formed a sharp contrast with the black, white and gray colors of the audience.

And when a female model with big wavy blonde hair walked to the end of the stage and faced the "audience", she suddenly smiled narrowly, lifted up her long skirt, revealing her snow-white thighs!
"Boom~" There was an inexplicable commotion from the crowd below the stage, and everyone leaned back in unison, as if they were avoiding a shock wave that was so close.

In fact, the female model only exposed a little bit above her knees, but for these people now, it was already a huge shock!
It seemed like everyone was about to be knocked down by the huge waves!

Xia Tian and his group, who were lying on the handrails on the second floor, also suffered a huge "shock"!
"Hiss~" The monkey took a deep breath and his eyes almost popped out.

If it weren't for the guardrail, both of them would have fallen downstairs.

Milan, Li Bailing and other girls also turned their heads away, looking embarrassed and secretly watching.

Only the glasses lowered their heads shyly...

Milan whispered, "Alright, stop looking. Your eyeballs are about to fall out! If you can be more promising, look at Xiao Qiu!"

Xiaodong knew his best friend too well, and he retorted at the time: "Glasses need to be cleaned, so they look clearer."

When everyone looked, they saw that the man with glasses quickly wiped his glasses, put them on with an excited look on his face, and stretched his neck to look at the white legs of the foreign girl below!
Xia Tian leaned on the railing and said calmly, "I say, can you guys show some promise? What's so good about those long white legs? You should know that this is China's first fashion show. It is our first step to connect with international fashion. We are witnessing history!"

The friends expressed their disagreement, incomprehension and rejection of Xia Tian’s inexplicable feelings.

Ma Xiaojun: "White legs aren't pretty?!"

Pants: "Look, is it that Tian'er has a good command of words? We only saw the big white legs, but he has already witnessed history!"

Only Dachun agreed: "Xia Tian is right. What's so good about this? It's colorful and looks like a big flowered coat from Northeast China."

Fang Yan looked very disappointed: "Who told you to look at the clothes?!"

A group of people snickered when they heard this.

However, many years later, the model's white legs have faded from memory, and it is hard to tell whether the white in my memory is real or just an illusion. But the memory of witnessing history is indeed timeless.

……

The show started off well but ended badly. The audience left in a hurry after the show, as if they would be caught and eaten by a fairy if they ran too slowly.

But after the fashion show, the real work comes.

I'm afraid that people in China today cannot accept these things.

However, before leaving, Xia Tian and the others went to see Ms. Song, who was so busy that she was a little dizzy.

After all, someone has opened a "back door" for you, so you have to express your gratitude.

Song Huaijia's face was obviously tired, and he asked, "How do you feel?"

Xia Tian smiled: "Mr. Pierre Cardin has a great vision and great ambition!"

Ms. Song didn't expect that Xia Tian had no opinions on fashion and models, but instead commented on Pierre Cardin.

"What do you mean?" she asked. "This shouldn't be his last fashion show on this land, right?" Xia Tian looked towards the Cultural Palace not far away.

"In other words, he should be preparing a new fashion show in China soon. He has taken a fancy to this vast virgin land of fashion clothing, just like when Europeans discovered the American continent!"

Song Huaijia didn't know what to say. After all, she hadn't thought about it so deeply before. She just wanted China to be exposed to the outside world, the fashion and beauty outside.

Now that Xia Tian said this, I feel a little excited.

Xia Tian smiled: "But don't think it's that simple! The days when Western invaders could occupy a country by simply setting up a few cannons on a coast in the East for hundreds of years are gone forever!"

"Next time he comes, we will definitely challenge him to a duel!"

"French fashion leads the world, but don't underestimate our 5,000 years of great accumulation! We will let him see the Chinese fashion show!"

Xia Tian said, turned around and left, and his friends followed behind him, also following in silence.

Song Huaijia looked at the backs of a group of people and didn't react for a long time.

After they walked a long way out and could no longer see anyone else, everyone finally couldn't hold it in any longer.

Pants screamed, "Fuck! Tian'er! Brother Tian'er! Absolutely amazing! What you said is absolutely amazing! So inspiring!"

Ma Xiaojun raised his head and chest, repeating General Peng's famous words: "For hundreds of years, Western invaders could occupy a country by setting up a few cannons on a coast in the East. The days are gone forever!"

Milan was a little surprised: "Are you really going to hold a fashion show?"

Yu Beibei also said: "That's right, can you do it?"

Xia Tian waved his hand and said, "Of course not! I was just kidding her!"

"But you think you can intimidate us with a few fancy dresses? Who are you looking down on? Can I let her be so arrogant?!"

"Besides, the next time Pierre Cardin comes to China to hold a fashion show, we don't know when it will be. We'll talk about it then!"

……

The next day, "Chan K News" reposted a review of the fashion show from a Hong Kong Z-faction newspaper titled "The Smell of Foreigners' Farts".

As expected of a Hong Kong media, the title is sharp~
This article severely criticized this fashion show: Why watch a fashion show when you can’t even afford to eat?

This led to a cooling of Pierre Cardin’s treatment.

However, for a country that intends to open up, this is a fresh wind, a wind that we want and will surely blow. It will not stop because of a few criticisms.

Once the wheel of history starts rolling, it cannot be stopped.

It is worth mentioning that old man Pierre Cardin is very resilient!
Moreover, this brand was the first to be introduced in China and was a major domestic brand in the 1980s and 1990s.

But later the brand started to license various OEM and other products, and he only collected licensing fees, so the brand was ruined.

The fate of Pierre Cardin and China began three years ago.

At that time, the China Light Industry Products Expo was held in Paris, France.

At that time, the Chinese delegation displayed a hand-woven tapestry called "The Great Wall" at the expo. The pattern on the tapestry deeply attracted Pierre Cardin from Italy and made him fascinated.

So, Pierre Cardin spent a huge amount of money to buy this handmade "Great Wall".

The staff who first came to the exhibition refused to sell it at first because there was the Great Wall on it.

As a result, my boss scolded me for being stupid, and I went to my house with the tapestry rolled up - this tapestry belongs to my dearest friend! I had to pay more, from 30,000 to 50,000~
From then on, Pierre Cardin began to be interested in this ancient country with its vast land and large population, which led to his tour last year and the first fashion show he held this year.

After the reform and opening up in 78, we were short of foreign exchange and decided to create a Silk Road to export our clothing.

We have silk fabrics, but we don't know what kind of clothes the world needs or how to sell them.

We urgently needed to hire a designer and expert to do this, and Ms. Song Huaijia took the lead in the work.

Ms. Song found seven or eight big designers in France, but many of them were unwilling to come. Finally, Pierre Cardin was invited to Yanjing…

Although this fashion show was not well received, he will come again soon...

Ps: Song Huaijia’s real name is Song Huaigui. I always got it wrong at first, and finally decided to use this pseudonym.

(End of this chapter)