The "Michael Kors" women's clothing brand is named after the designer himself. Kors is a somewhat fat middle-aged man. After all the models participating in the ready-to-wear catwalk filed out, he also came out to thank everyone.
Ronald sat in the front row of the show of Michael Kors, an emerging women's clothing brand, and applauded with everyone. Because it was a ready-to-wear show, there were not many big-name models. The most dazzling ones were Ronald's two familiar ones.
A model.
The venue for the show was not very good. It was a converted basement of a large shopping mall. There were various exposed pipes on the ceiling. There was no runway on the ground. The show route was simply drawn with white lines, and the audience sat there.
On a folding chair outside the white line.
Cindy Crawford and Christie Turlington were wearing exactly the same clothes, a white lapel top, a wide belt, white reflective stockings under the skirt, and white high heels. They looked like the same person.
A pair of twins.
The two people were behind, looking around, and found Ronald, waving to him happily.
After the interview, no one took photos or interviews. Ronald hugged the two models and the three of them walked out of the basement together.
"I came here to have some fun with you. Do you need to be vegetarian now? Ouch..." Ronald almost hit his head at the low door. Cindy and Christie laughed and bent over.
The two models were wearing this set of ready-made clothes that were white and glowing from top to bottom. They had already taken off their high heels and put them aside. They hid barefoot on the sofa in Ronald's loft and began to pick up menus and put them in the Fifth Avenue building.
I ordered some dishes from all the takeout restaurants I could order.
"Aren't you afraid of getting fat?" Ronald asked curiously.
"No one is watching us eat. If we eat, we won't gain weight." Cindy Crawford said carelessly.
"We really want to eat, and we will try them all when we have the chance. We only eat a little of each." Christy Turlington said their true thoughts. The model did not have the money to try expensive restaurants. Today is the Flora anyway.
Moral money.
"You're not going to pay, are you, Ronald?" Cindy put one arm around Christie and the other hand hugged her knees on the sofa.
"Order whatever you want..." Ronald felt that being a model was not easy, "Just wait until you become famous."
"Cindy is about to become famous. She is going to Phuket next month to shoot a swimsuit issue for Sports Illustrated(si)." Christy Turlington took out a pack of women's cigarettes from her bag, lit it and started smoking.
.
"You're coming soon. We will definitely have a high-end fashion show for big brands this year. This kind of low-end ready-to-wear show makes me sick." Cindy Crawford said, taking the cigarette from Turlington's mouth
, took a sip himself, and then sprayed it on Ronald's face, "You have to help us, especially Christie, right?"
"Of course, if you want to develop in the film industry." Ronald reached for the cigarette and took a puff. It smelled like mint.
"Nah, I don't want to be an actress," Cindy Crawford shook her head. She lived in an apartment with Christy Turlington, and the two worked hard to find opportunities to get ahead in the modeling industry.
If you want to develop your career in the film industry, you have to lose some of the connections and reputation you have gained in the modeling industry, especially since Crawford has already received the opportunity to shoot for Sports Illustrated. In addition, the two of them have guest-starred in movies and commercials, and they all know that they are
Not actor material.
"Don't say that. When you become famous, Cindy, movie producers will come after you and offer you lots of dollars to beg you to play the leading role." Ronald said with a smile.
"Why?" Turlington took the cigarette over again. She was not as famous as Cindy. Appearance opportunities such as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue would give Crawford a great boost. She did not have such an opportunity yet. So.
Turlington was rather moved by Ronald's proposal.
"Movies are a very desirable industry, but producers only like famous stars to act in movies, rather than creating a star." Luo Ying explained that movies need stars from other industries to perform across industries, so that they can
earned money.
"Oh..." Turlington exhaled a puff of smoke, she was a little discouraged.
"This time my movie is about working women on Wall Street, so I want to know which brands of ready-to-wear women's clothing are more suitable for them. If you want, you can also play a small cameo role in the movie." Ronald knew how to make it happen.
The models are happy.
"Well... thank you..." Crawford was even happier than Turlington, and his face was pressed against hers.
After giving a double tip to the waiter who brought the food, Ronald pushed the dining cart to the two beauties and asked, "Seriously, what clothes do you think are suitable for working girls?"
"Actually, today's Michael Kors is pretty good. Most people can buy these clothes in suitable sizes, and they won't look too fancy in the office." Crawford and Turlington stood up happily, stood on tiptoes, and gave Luo
Nader Show.
"anything else?"
"Marc Jacobs is so flashy. I see that the female executives in magazines are very conservative in their clothing. Klein's trousers are pretty good..." Turlington mentioned a few brands that they thought they could wear to the office. "It's a pity that here.
There are no clothes, otherwise we will show you how to wear them."
When it comes to fashion, the two are as confident as any model.
"What's so difficult about this?" Ronald picked up the phone and called the housekeeper in the apartment, asking several women's clothing stores in the building to send them all the new season clothes of the brands they mentioned. "Well, spring clothes from all brands.
New product, number two.”
Crawford let down his braided hair and swayed it from side to side. Turlington also pulled up a clothes rack on the spot and took off his old clothes and hung them up. The two of them seemed to have held a private fashion show for Ronald.
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"Well, Ronald clicked the Polaroid, and then wrote down the brand and model of the clothes. These models are clothes racks, which are very helpful for the costume designer to refer to.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Ah ha ha ha..." Crawford, tired of posing, suddenly sat on the sofa. Christie Turlington also sat over, they had not yet
I was exhausted from eating.
"These photos?" Crawford and Turlington looked at each other's photos and started fighting again.
"I pointed out these photos to the costume designer for reference. They will not be leaked." Ronald put the photos away...
…
"Can I ask you something?"
Two hours later, after finishing her work, Cindy Crawford sat next to Ronald, put her hands around Ronald's neck, and asked softly questions in his ear.
"Of course, what..."
"What are your Hollywood stars like? Are they as funny and humorous in private as they are on screen? Well, do they have bad tempers?"
Seeing that the question was so specific, Ronald probably guessed what was going on.
"Male stars, I mean the ones who are really famous, all have very good incomes. If it is a commercial film with a high investment, the ones whose names appear above the title on the movie poster are all stars recognized by Hollywood. Their wealth
And exposure is fine.
As for privately, in fact, most celebrities themselves are relatively introverted, and their personalities may be similar to their screen images, or they may be completely different, it’s possible.”
"Hmm...I don't know, what if it's not a big production? His name seems to be at the top of the poster..." Cindy Crawford looked at Ronald and smiled with a rare embarrassed look, which was as generous as she usually was.
Confidence looks different.
"Is that so?" Ronald touched his chin, "Actually, there is a way. If a star, especially a male star, has a particularly bad temper on the set, does not accept the instructions of the producer and director, and has various strange requests.
If so, then he is a real star. You will understand when you go to visit the class."
"Oh..." Crawford remembered Ronald's words firmly, "Thank you, Ronald."
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"The clothes in these photos are all very good to me. They belong to ready-to-wear fashion, suitable for working women, and I think they are sexy." Ronald spread out the photos one by one on the table and showed them
Ann Roth, the production's costume director.
"Aha, Crawford and Turlington." Ann Ross looked up at Ronald. The director seemed to have a very active social life.
"Is this dress a size two?" Ann Rose's eyes were glaring, "Well, among the current models, they are the only ones with normal figures. I'd like to show Sigourney Weaver a try on a size four from the same brand."
"Ah...okay..." Ronald accidentally mixed a photo in there that he shouldn't have taken out, and quickly put it away.
"Don't move, this is very good. I think it can be worn by Melanie Griffiths and Harrison Ford in the intimate scene. It's white lace, very good." Ann Rose fixed the photo with a slap, and then
I looked at the brand carefully and wrote it down to ask someone to buy it.
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"I need a female voice similar to that in an opera. The theme is to sing Manhattan into the style of New Babylon... Who do you think is better to write lyrics and sing in this style?"
Ronald finished the costumes and found Jimmy Liner, who was responsible for music in Daydreaming. The theme song he dreamed about in his dream was very touching, but he couldn't recognize who it was by listening to the voice.
Give Jimmy the characteristics of your singing voice and let him find the right one.
"For this kind of song, you need to find a songwriter with literary background and good education. Ordinary pop songwriters can't write it. It's also best for the singer to find someone with a background in classical music to sing. This kind of song is actually closer to
Church music, not pop music. Hymn-like interludes need to have a sense of power.”
Jimmy Lena thought for a while and determined the search direction very knowledgeablely.
"Is there anyone chosen?"
"Actually, there are two. One is a black singer, Whitney Houston. She has sung in a church choir since she was a child, and also has personal creative experience and a team. The other is Carly Simon, a day singer, and her father is Simon.
That Simon from Schuster Publishing Company, the guy who taught his daughter how to play Chopin at home... was also a member of the church choir since she was a child."
"Okay, send invitations to them all."
Soon, Carly Simon quickly accepted the invitation and invited Ronald to her studio for a chat. Whitney Houston was just in time to release a new record and had various publicity and marketing activities, which was very important to Ronald.
Nader's invitation was not that serious, and no one took the initiative to reply.
"Hello, Carly." Ronald arrived at Carly Simon's studio. This buck-toothed female singer became famous in the 1970s. Ronald had seen her at a party in New York before.
On the one hand, this obvious facial feature made him think of it immediately.
"Ronald, I'm glad you can come. I'm currently preparing my greatest hits collection. Here are my old songs. Which one do you like?"
This is also the reason why Carly Simon was so interested in Ronald's invitation. She signed with MJ's Legend Records in the past two years, but her career suffered a setback. Perhaps her style was outdated, and her new album sales and radio play were poor. She last year
He also terminated his contract with Legend and signed with Alistar Records.
For Carly Simon, being able to write, compose and sing the theme song in Ronald's movie is a great opportunity to make a comeback.
"Oh, you have done so many movie inserts before?" Ronald found the movie inserts that Simon had written and sung in a lot of records. Although they were not very famous, seven or eight songs were all
Simon composed it himself, so he must have a deep understanding of the creative requirements for film inserts.
"That's right, this is the script. It tells the story of Tess, a blue-collar office secretary, how she became a manager through her own hard work and won love." Ronald handed the script to Simon, and then told the story of himself in detail.
requirements.
"In short, I wanted an epic, choir-style interlude. Staten Island is the countryside, and Manhattan across the river is the center of the world. The ferry from Staten Island to Manhattan Island in the opening scene is a metaphor for Tess's fate.
As long as you work hard, you can achieve success regardless of your family background."
Ronald told Carly Simon his idea in detail, almost telling her the images and melody in his dream.
"I thought it was a hymn to New York, in the middle of the city, with a modern jungle beat." Carly Simon quickly understood Ronald's idea.
"Yes, that's the style I want." Ronald listened to her hum a few lines of melody, which seemed to be very similar to the one in the dream. Carly's voice was also very similar to the one in the dream. Among female singers, it is the most powerful one.
The big kind.
"Who do you think...this hymn looks like written by?"
"What do you mean?" Ronald was confused.
"Which poet's style does the lyrics sound like? Shakespeare? Yeats?" Carly Simon likes to start with her favorite literary works and determine the style first when creating.
"Neither? Whitman?"
"Whitman is very similar." Ronald recalled that the poet had many poems describing life in Manhattan.
"Very well, very well, Whitman...
I too have lived, and the hills of Brooklyn are mine.
I have also walked the streets of Manhattan Island and bathed in its surrounding waters."
Simone immediately began to recite Whitman's poem, looking at Ronald with her eyes, as if expecting his response, and recited with her.
"Um...when can I see the first draft?" Ronald couldn't stand this kind of female literary youth.
"Come back in a week." Carly Simon ignored him, sat down at the piano, played a few notes, then opened the script and started reading, writing and scratching on the paper while reading.
"Then I'll go first. Let Jimmy know if you have any progress." Ronald thought to himself that this man got into the mood immediately.
"Bye..." Carly Simon waved her hand and said goodbye to him.
Ronald and Jimmy Lena walked out together.
"Carly just got divorced and is not in a good mood. She is not usually like this, but you can believe in her creative skills."
"It doesn't matter, all artists are like this..." Ronald didn't take it seriously. Just as he was about to leave the front desk, the news on the TV at the entrance of the studio attracted his attention.
"Sony announced the acquisition of Columbia Records for 2 billion. The two parties said at a press conference today that after long-term negotiations, the deal will be completed in the New Year.
Yetnikov, the current general manager of Columbia Records, told our reporter that the company's management and main talent pool will not change. Michael Jackson, who is currently the most popular, will stay in the new company. Other records under Columbia
The label will also maintain its traditional cooperative relationship with the new company.
It is reported that this transaction will break the record and become the largest merger and acquisition by a Japanese company to acquire an American company."
"Are you taking action so soon? It seems that the integration of Eastern and Western thinking is useful..." Ronald smiled while watching the news.