It was also a French company in the fashion category, and they were also negotiating for capital investment. They also encountered cold looks and contempt from the other party when they met for the first time.
However, the feelings and results brought to Ning Weimin by these two negotiations were completely different, and they were essentially different.
For no other reason than because the decision-makers in the two companies have completely different temperaments.
Henri Lacamier, the head of LV, is a headstrong, blindly arrogant, very emotional person who relies entirely on personal preferences.
Even the most basic courtesy is not shown to the people who come to help him.
Although as the head of LV, he does have an extraordinary artistic style and a high social status.
But such a person who acts extremely egotistically and doesn't care about other people's feelings is unreasonable.
It is simply impossible to rationally analyze problems with him and make unanimous decisions together.
Moreover, this person is still very suspicious, and even the person he seeks help from, Master Pierkaton, does not completely believe him.
It's like after suffering a loss, he has a psychological shadow on people, and it is difficult to trust anyone again.
When you collude with teammates like this to do big things, you can imagine the probability of success. And how painful it will be?
To put it bluntly, from Ning Weimin's perspective, such a person cannot cooperate at all.
The so-called alliance is actually just a form he acquiesced to comfort the master.
In fact, it has no binding force on him, and he will not have high hopes for it.
If his plan goes smoothly, God will do his best, and everyone's interests can be taken into account in the end, then everyone will naturally be happy.
But if not, then he will definitely abandon the CEO of LV without hesitation and only consider the interests of himself and the master.
But the two decision-makers of Yves Saint Laurent are different.
No matter which one of them they are, Ning Weimin truly appreciates them and considers them to be partners with whom they can cooperate sincerely.
First of all, although Yves Saint Laurent himself is a contemporary fashion master and design genius comparable to Pierre Cardin and Chanel Lafayette.
Even in addition to this, he also takes into account his identity as a descendant of a baron and the second generation of rich people.
But he himself has no arrogance whatsoever.
On the contrary, he is a humble, polite, personable, friendly, soft-looking, shy and introverted person.
In particular, Ning Weimin learned that the Saint Laurent founder was also deeply troubled by drugs and mental illness.
Judging from his performance, he still has a bit of interpersonal phobia.
For such a person, he not only felt extremely sorry and sympathized with him.
And I suddenly understood why Pierre Bergé was so suspicious and wary of him.
To be honest, he didn't expect that the design master would be able to attend today's negotiation in person in such a state.
Although Catherine's role cannot be ignored, it is actually a kind of respect in itself, which makes him feel gratified and satisfied.
In addition, although Pierre Bergé was picky about Ning Weimin in every possible way, apart from the reasons, he could indeed be seen to be serious and responsible, shrewd and capable, and full of business ethics.
For Saint Laurent to have such a business manager, it is exactly what Ning Weimin needs and is grateful for.
He and Keiko Matsumoto were busy enough with their own affairs. He didn't even bother to get involved in Pierre Cardon's main clothing business. How could he be willing to spend his time and energy in distant France and unfamiliar Europe?
How cool is it to be a jobber if you can just lie down and make money?
It is undoubtedly the most beautiful thing to do nothing and just wait for listing and dividends.
If Saint Laurent's business managers lack such qualities and he still needs to worry about specific operations, it will only give him a headache.
Therefore, it is precisely based on this feeling and basis of cooperation that both of them can be said to have the same goal and achieve the same goal through different paths.
Although at the beginning, there were some misunderstandings in the words because they didn't understand each other.
But once we had an open and honest exchange of opinions, the rest of the matter began to become gratifying and extremely smooth.
In the end, both parties were in a mutually happy mood and quickly reached the following agreement that day.
1. Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko should complete three overseas remittances of 100 million francs, 200 million francs, and 200 million francs to the French Yves Saint Laurent Company within the first week of each month in the next three months.
The acquisition of 25% of the shares, otherwise the acquisition agreement will be invalid.
Second, after the acquisition is completed, all transaction equity is recorded in Matsumoto Keiko’s personal name.
Matsumoto Keiko did not ask for a seat on the board of directors, did not actively interfere in the company's operations, and agreed to maintain the company's current management structure.
Keiko Mimatsumoto has temporarily entrusted Catherine Deneuve with full agency for her personal shareholder rights.
In other words, Matsumoto Keiko's shares will be bound to Catherine's personal shares, and voting decisions will be made in major board resolutions in the form of joint voting.
4. Agreement on the withdrawal mechanism midway.
In order to ensure the orderly progress of the listing, Matsumoto Keiko's equity is prohibited from being transferred or withdrawn within three years.
If the company fails to go public, the target of Matsumoto Keiko's equity transfer three years later will need to be approved by the board of directors.
5. Whether before or after the listing, Keiko Matsumoto continued to increase her shareholdings.
Its shareholding cannot exceed 33% of Saint Laurent Company at most.
This is to comply with the relevant laws of the French government and is also a necessary restriction to prevent a one-vote veto.
All in all, this agreement is one to sign.
Keiko Matsumoto is about to become the third largest individual shareholder of the French company Yves Saint Laurent.
Of course, it is also the only foreign shareholder.
Its shareholding ratio will be second only to Yves Saint Laurent himself, who owns 33% of the shares, and Pierre Bergé, the general manager, who owns 27% of the shares, and far higher than
Catherine Deneuve has a personal stake of six percent.
There is no doubt that once this deal is completed, it will not only help Matsumoto Keiko improve her personal status in the international film industry, but also
It also allows the Yves Saint Laurent Company to receive capital injections without any worries and is free to develop its ready-to-wear business, which can be said to be a happy outcome for everyone.
And that's not all, because the social status of Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko, a young couple, is somewhat special.
One of them is the major shareholder of Yi La De Company and the inventor of the trolley suitcase.
In addition to being a Japanese movie star, the other one is also the owner of Fog Studios.
Therefore, there are many directions in which they can cooperate with Yves Saint Laurent in other fields.
For example, in order to help Yves Saint Laurent improve its operating income as soon as possible, Ning Weimin took the initiative to cooperate with Yves Saint Laurent in the trolley suitcase business.
Considering Yves Saint Laurent's current tight financial situation, Ning Weimin even proposed that the patent fee be calculated based on actual product sales.
In principle, Yves Saint Laurent can develop this product immediately as long as it pays a deposit of five million francs.
Ning Weimin is even willing to provide mature production drawings for free, or provide domestic OEM services to produce accessories for them.
The fees Yves Saint Laurent needs to pay are only calculated annually based on the sales volume of related products.
Sell more and pay more, sell less and pay less, and you will make a steady profit without losing money.
In other words, if a trolley suitcase based on Yves Saint Laurent's reputation is priced at around eight or nine thousand francs, for every product sold, Yves Saint Laurent only needs to pay 500 francs to Erad Company.
If the entire cost of domestic OEM parts, including freight and customs duties, is estimated by Ning Weimin, the cost will only need to increase by about 700 francs.
This is equivalent to at least 80% of the profit for each bag sold by Yves Saint Laurent.
This proposal naturally surprised Pierre Bergé.
He never expected that such a big pie would fall and hit him on the head.
You should know that since Pierre Cardon's trolley cases are all made in Hong Kong, they are products manufactured by Zeng Xianzi of Goldlion.
At present, it is not even enough to supply the Southeast Asian market, and there is no way to sell Pierre Cardin's trolley suitcases to Europe.
Facing the European market, Picardon is currently mainly signing patent authorizations for Yi La De Company and collecting authorization fees.
The kind of things that can be seen in France at present, apart from some avant-garde people who like to travel, bought them from Japan or Singapore, they are gifts received from the master by some celebrities who have friendship with Pierre Cardon.
The same goes for Catherine Deneuve and Alain Delon. Because they are spokespersons for Pierre Cardon China, they also received several trolley suitcases from the master.
But even so, this new thing has already caused a sensation in France's upper class and amazed many people. This is enough to prove that this still blank market has great prospects.
In fact, after Pierre Bergé saw this thing from Catherine Deneuve's home not long ago, he felt that it was convenient and beautiful and had great market prospects.
But since it is a product of Pilkadot, I can’t make any further decisions.
And I’m a little jealous, thinking that with such a product in hand, Pierre Cardon will definitely occupy a place in the field of suitcases in the future.
Who would have known that today, Catherine would send funds to the door together with the founder of this trolley suitcase.
Moreover, they have also taken the initiative to relax patent licensing conditions for cooperation between the two parties, providing considerable convenience.
Where can I find such good things?
So it's not only for profit, but also out of respect.
Not only did he agree to the matter, but his attitude toward Ning Weimin also changed fundamentally, and he no longer had any contempt or suspicion.
After all, being able to invent this kind of device that can significantly change lives, such a brain is more worthy of respect than wealth.
Pierre has lived with the design master Yves Saint Laurent for half his life. Of course he knows how to appreciate real geniuses, and he never hesitates to praise them.
In addition, for Fog Studios' second major film - "Crazy Rich Asians" which is about to start filming.
Ning Weimin suddenly had an idea and had a brilliant idea.
That is, he hoped that the Yves Saint Laurent Company would follow the model of supporting Catherine Devner when they were filming the movie "Belle de Jour" and also provide costumes for several important characters in their movie.
In fact, Ning Weimin's original idea was to let Pierre Cardon take over this business.
He even wanted the master to design several costumes himself.
After all, you don’t want to leave the land to outsiders.
But then he considered that this film would be exposed to the whole of Asia, and maybe it would have to be screened in Europe.
Mainland China, which catapulted Pierre Cardin to the sky, is not a major box office market.
Therefore, just relying on a brand like Pierre Cardon that is positioned as a popular ready-to-wear brand might turn the wealthy family in this movie into a joke.
Later he didn't dare to mention it.
But now I'm fine. I met Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre today, and they had a very happy conversation, and successfully established a cooperative relationship.
Ning Weimin immediately thought that with the high style of the Saint Laurent brand, it would certainly be very stylish and suitable for the attire of wealthy families.
In this way, it can not only help Yves Saint Laurent expand its business and increase its popularity overseas, but also reduce the cost of filming the film, and even win an additional advertising sponsorship for Keiko, so why not?
Needless to say, related-party transactions like this that benefit both parties are naturally welcome.
So not only Pierre and Saint Laurent expressed great interest, but they quickly nodded in agreement.
In order to repay Ning Weimin's favor, Catherine Deneuve even offered to make a free guest role in the film if necessary.
Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko were naturally overjoyed and agreed.
But of course they can't do things for nothing, and they still have to pay.
Anyway, no matter what, now both Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve will appear in this movie.
This has undoubtedly raised the influence of this movie to another level. It is destined to become a star-studded movie. The gimmick alone is enough to attract countless people to buy tickets and enter the cinema.
Needless to say, it was another unexpected gain that no one expected.
But is this all the fruit of their friendship?
No, of course not.
The biggest surprise was that Ning Weimin and Yves Saint Laurent hit it off instantly when they met for the first time. They actually found their common hobbies and interests in casual conversation.
In addition to being a master of design, Yves Saint Laurent’s aristocratic background and rich second generation BUFF bonus also made him a collector known as the “King of Paris”.
Although he has been burdened by huge design pressure throughout his life, he has not been to many places, but China and Japan are the only two places he has been to.
As early as the 1960s, Yves Saint Laurent visited Kyoto, Japan, and was deeply fascinated by Japanese Zen monasteries.
Although he had not visited China yet, seeing Ye Zhiqiu, Saint Laurent was particularly interested in Chinese culture.
Saint Laurent often visited China in his imagination. After that, he began to collect Chinese porcelain and other antiquities to decorate his residence on Avenue Babylon in Paris.
He was good at finding inspiration from works of art, and even before arriving in China, he launched a series of clothing inspired by China in 1977, integrating the Chinese style he understood into the design.
From silk fabrics to Chinese elements such as plackets, stand-up collars, buttons, and embroidery, to highly saturated colors such as red, gold, purple, and emerald green, to the use of patterns on traditional Chinese clothing and porcelain.
All of them demonstrate his obsession with Chinese culture, and also show the oriental aesthetic consciousness and cultural appreciation that Yves Saint Laurent gradually developed in the process of collecting Chinese artifacts.
In 1985, Diana Vreeland, then head of the fashion department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) (who also worked for Harper's BAZAAR for a long time) organized a solo exhibition for Yves Saint Laurent. This was the first time that the Metropolitan Museum of Art had
Living designers hold exhibitions.
Subsequently, the exhibition traveled to the Huaxia Art Museum in Beijing, which also contributed to Yves Saint Laurent's first trip to China.
In fact, not long after Ning Weimin arrived in Japan, Yves Saint Laurent also visited the capital, went to Tiananmen Square, appreciated China's national quintessence - Peking Opera, and had cordial exchanges with Chinese students studying fashion design.
Through this trip to China, Yves Saint Laurent not only gave back to the China of his dreams in his own way, but also continued to influence and inspire the new generation of fashion designers in the Republic like Pierre Cardin. He also completely became China.
Fan of traditional aesthetics.
When Ning Weimin was shopping for treasures in Japan, Yves Saint Laurent also copied Ning Weimin's Laos. He bought a large number of antiquities and handicrafts in China, including utensils and silk figures bought in the Temple of Heaven Park. After returning to France
His interest in collecting has never shifted from Eastern antiquities, and so far, he has many collections that he is very proud of.
Then an unexpected situation appeared again. Saint Laurent, a "social fear" who should not be approached by strangers, because he and Ning Weimin became closer and closer to each other on topics related to China, he actually took the initiative to invite Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko to visit him.
House tour.
Who would become friends with a stranger on the first day they met?
Obviously, Yves Saint Laurent expressed his friendship with practical actions.
The bond that connects friendships is mutual cultural hobbies.
