1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 97 The Second Pierre Cardin Fashion Show
In the summer, everything has been prepared and we are just waiting for the fashion show to begin.

And Pierre Cardin also informed him of the time, they would start first and come back the next summer.

Pierre Cardin also notified many foreign media and reporters to come for interviews. After all, this is an event with strong symbolic significance.

Although the last trial was severely criticized by domestic media, it will not happen this time!
This time he has the advantage!

In the summer, they will be watched and interviewed by foreign media the next day.

This is why Xia Tian and Pierre Cardin fired each other:

Because it’s summer, Pierre Cardin can get several times more domestic attention than before, and more reporters and media will report on this matter.

And because of Pierre Cardin, they were able to attract foreign media that they would not have been able to invite in the summer, thereby amplifying the influence of the labor clothing exhibition!
After all, they are foreign journalists. For us who are now trying to open up, one good word from a foreigner is worth a hundred good words from a hundred Chinese people!

People are happy to see competition, especially this kind of competition that represents the inside and the outside, represents tradition and openness, represents the working people and fashion aesthetics!

This kind of thing would make any media practitioner feel excited and they would be eager to work overtime to wait for breaking news!
Xia Tian: Take it easy~
Tomorrow is the day of the Pierre Cardin fashion show. Ms. Song is busy working in the exhibition hall set up in a large conference hall of the Yanjing Hotel.

And in the summer I go to bookstores.

Now Xia Tian no longer needs to do anything, or rather, he has always been the one in command.

Or give suggestions if you have any trouble, or offer opinions on any problems you find at work.

Moreover, Director Zhou has already taken it seriously since he heard that many foreign journalists will be coming. Now there are more than 20 middle-level cadres and three senior cadres in the factory who are responsible for the specific and minor matters, and they must be 100% perfect.

They were very nervous, but Xia Tian didn't feel anything.

He even has the mind to go to the bookstore!

These days the main way to get information and knowledge is to read books and newspapers. In the summer I subscribe to six newspapers and eight books, periodicals and magazines, and then I have to borrow some from others!
I buy several books every week, and I have to buy a batch at the beginning of every month!
This is the same as how people browse websites and play with their mobile phones nowadays.

If you don't go, you won't know anything.

If you go there too much, you'll get addicted~
This summer I bought the Complete Works of Lu Xun published by Renmin Literature Publishing House this year.

This is the 1st edition, it makes sense!

There is no need to explain the status and influence of Brother Xun...

March 3, Spring Equinox.

After half a year of preparation, Pierre Cardin's second fashion show was finally held in the Yanjing Hotel.

Xia Tian took Dachun and the other four people, Feng Kuazi, Ma Xiaojun, Milan, and Yu Beibei, and everyone went there.

Xia Tian: Ms. Song, we are all related, so it shouldn’t be a problem for me to get a few tickets, right?

Song Huaigui: Are you so confident when you use the backdoor?

There is no other way except to use the back door, the Ministry of Textiles won’t give us tickets!

A large conference hall, or rather a small auditorium, has been decorated to have a very "modern feel"!

Although this sense of the times seems to have a 1990s "rustic" feeling in summer~
But nowadays, it is indeed very fashionable.

Whether it is the booth style, the shape and color of decorations, stage lighting, seating arrangement, etc.... their foreign team is very experienced.

But Xia Tian was unmoved. After all, all this had already been revealed by the undercover Xiaodong, and Xia Tian already knew it!

We don’t learn their fashion, we have our own things!

In the backstage, Ms. Song was still instructing the male and female models: "If a reporter interviews you, you must tell the truth. Tell the reporter what you do and where you live..."

Although Ms. Song has reminded them many times, she is still worried when she sees these young people tense up with muscles and stiff expressions as the time to go on stage approaches, so she has to say it again!
Although I had prepared myself mentally, and had gone through three or four months of hard training, and had overcome all kinds of psychological, life, and conceptual problems to get to this point... but you didn't mention that there were also foreign journalists! So many?
Nowadays, when people in China hear about models, they think of them as the kind that need to take off their clothes to show their bodies to others. Xia Tian: You are talking about the models that we painters need.
A little girl peeked from backstage and saw that more than half of the people in the first three rows were foreigners with big noses. They could hardly move their legs!
There were quite a few people from China, including representatives from Textile B and Diplomacy B, and many factories also sent representatives...

So much so that they had to temporarily add more than 70 seats in this small auditorium, and there were even about a hundred standing tickets!

They are all people from various institutions and units. They have come to witness the hot topic of "labor and fashion" that is being discussed in the newspapers in person. You definitely can't chase them away!
There are now more than five hundred people crammed into this small auditorium!

It's still cold in mid-March, but I have to open all the windows, otherwise I can't breathe.
Soon the time was up and people sat down - some even stood.

Everyone remained quiet, suppressed their excitement, and waited for the fashion show to begin.

The lights around me started to dim, and then the lights on the catwalk started to brighten. Soft music started to play...

"Huh?" Unexpectedly, the first person to walk out of the stage was a middle-aged man? !

what's going on?
Finally, he opened a manuscript and started reading - ah~
Is it so formal? And the leader is giving a speech?

Fortunately, perhaps considering that there were many foreign journalists at the scene, the leader did not speak for too long. After saying "Welcome to Mr. Pierre Cardin's fashion show", the leader left. Ms. Song Huaigui took a few steps forward and said to the microphone: "Then, the Pierre Cardin fashion show will start now."

As soon as the words fell, a model came out from the backstage...

The first one to come out was a young man, about 1.8 meters tall, about the same height as Xia Tian.

He was good-looking, wearing a fitted sky blue suit...but his expression was indifferent!

Xia Tian has good eyesight and can see clearly that the man’s eyes are out of focus. He is probably numb. He is hypnotizing himself in his mind - there are cabbages underneath!

Even in this situation, the model's catwalk and expressions are excellent, which shows that she has trained really hard in the previous few months and has formed muscle memory.

Then there are the female models...

You know what, this Pierre Cardin is the real deal. The clothes have a novel yet not overly fashionable feel in terms of form, material, color, etc. The sizes are very well controlled, which makes people feel bright.

Suits, leather shoes, women's long skirts, knitted hats, long leather gloves... Each of the 17 models has about three sets of clothes, with a wide variety of styles.

Many of the audience at the scene were dazzled!
It has to be said that they developed early, and we have been suppressed for many years, so we have already been controlled by them in this aspect.

In the next thirty or forty years, foreign luxury brands will make a lot of money from us, with a single bag costing hundreds of thousands!
Even a paper bag costs you thousands!

Don't think it's expensive, this is the effect you want~
There were some minor accidents. One female model was wearing high heels and sprained her ankle slightly.

But she remained calm, with a good expression on her face, and continued to show off as if nothing had happened...

But when I got backstage, my eyes were red!
Before Ms. Song could comfort her, she spoke up: "It's okay, Sister Song, I'm fine. I can continue!"

She immediately calmed down, started to change her clothes, and continued with the show.

A few years later, this fashion team went to Paris to show off their fashion style wearing cheongsams, and this girl was the team leader...

Finally, the fashion show ended perfectly amid rounds of applause.

From the time the leader started speaking to the time Mr. Pierre Cardin gave his thank you speech at the end, it took about ninety minutes in total.

Because the exhibition is held in the afternoon, it is almost time for dinner. A dinner will be arranged at Yanjing Hotel after the fashion exhibition.
Dachun came here just for this!

This dinner was a Western buffet style, and Milan and the others didn’t know how to eat it!

Xia Tian pointed at a row of delicacies and said, "Take your own plate and pick up whatever you want to eat..."

Suddenly he remembered something and looked at Dachun: "Eat now and don't pile it up too high! Don't say you came with me when the time comes!"

Dachun and the others have already started getting ready, while Xiatian went to chat with Ms. Song and Pierre Cardin.

I walked over and saw someone, "Auntie Deng?!"

"Xiaotian is here too?" Aunt Deng smiled. "By the way, aren't you guys going to have a fight? I have to come and see!"

Ms. Song looked at Aunt Deng and Xia Tian's friendly attitude, as if she understood something.

I found out after some inquiries in the summer that Ms. Song Huaigui had studied at the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and was Aunt Deng's senior!
On the other side, Dachun and his friends had already started eating.

Although the delicacies in front of him were all things he had never eaten before, he was still excited about the scene just now!

At that time, when the female model walked out wearing women's slim-fit trousers and high heels, Feng's pants were in such a state!
Xia Tian was afraid that he would "pull out a rubber band to make a slingshot and shoot it at someone's glass"!
It's not an exaggeration at all, it's so fucking scary!
Pants kept mumbling, "Hey, that thigh! Did you see it? Hey~ so straight, so long, I have to look at it!"

Dachun swallowed the food in his mouth and asked vaguely: "Why? Did she force you to watch it?"

Pants was stunned and shouted: "Tsk~ vulgar!"

Dachun was confused and didn't know what was going on: "What's wrong with me? Am I vulgar?"

Glasses pushed his glasses up, and a white light flashed: "This is it: you say Qianmenlouzi, he says Kuakuaxizi..."

Xiaodong was trying to hold back his laughter...

The next day's newspapers were filled with reports of the Pierre Cardin fashion show.

According to Ms. Song’s statistics, there were about thirty foreign media and more than fifty domestic media at the fashion show yesterday afternoon!

Not to mention local newspapers such as the Yanjing Daily, Yanjing Evening News and Yanjing Youth Daily, even the nearby Tianjin Daily and Jizhou Daily have come.

There are also similar newspapers like Guangming Daily and People's Daily!
Of course, the major newspaper reports were relatively conservative, focusing on the possible differences between the two different fashion shows.

In short, the pressure is on Xia Tian and the others!

(End of this chapter)