After the old lady passed away, Xiao Yuan endured her grief and, with swollen eyes, contacted the person on the business card.
Three days later, Paolo, an internationally renowned fashion designer, flew from Italy to China in person, and after several twists and turns, he came to the small tailor shop.
Paul helped Xiao Yuan and buried the old lady successfully, and then fulfilled his promise back then and was willing to fulfill the old lady's last wish and accept Xiao Yuan as his disciple.
Going abroad is not a trivial matter. Xiao Yuan can't even speak English well, so her future is uncertain and full of difficulties.
However, Xiao Yuan is very determined, she is not afraid of hardship, she just wants to realize her ideals and the old lady's dying instructions.
When Xiao Yuan went abroad, Xiao Yuan's mother was of course the first to worry, so she found Wu Yinan.
Comparing his feelings, Wu Yinan particularly understood Xiao Yuan's mother's mood, so she asked Qi Yu to help inquire about the situation and see if Paul was reliable.
The result is naturally satisfactory. Paul is already a big name in the world's top fashion industry. His talent and character are both first-class. Moreover, he has very high requirements for selecting apprentices. Xiao Yuan is his close disciple.
It’s not unreasonable for Paul to accept Xiao Yuan as his last disciple, because the pressure is too great!
When he saw Madoka for the first time, he knew that his life in the future would not be easy. He has dominated the fashion industry for decades. What kind of designers have he not seen? Geniuses, geeks, and arrogant ones.
Yes, hard work can make up for clumsiness...but this child has subverted all his previous world views.
He has never seen a fashion designer who is so fat, so stupid, so stupid, so ignorant of dressing up, and so unwilling to dress up! What’s even more incredible is that she is still a girl in her prime!
However, she is also the most persistent, determined, persevering, patient, simple-hearted, and clear-eyed child he has ever seen!
She was like a piece of rough jade that had not yet been discovered and carved, and he was going to be the master and turn her into the most dazzling treasure!
Therefore, he must transform her from head to toe, from outside to inside, from appearance to soul, completely!
Thus, Madoka's nightmare began.
Life after going abroad would definitely not be easy, and she had already been mentally prepared for this. However, after arriving in Italy, what she saw and heard, her treatment and life were completely beyond her imagination.
She did not become a little pitiful person, but became a little princess!
Paul didn't teach her how to read pictures, let alone how to design, nor let her touch a sewing machine. He just arranged for her to enter a house as big as a maze, and then invited a bunch of terrifying experts.
To serve her, there are weight loss coaches, swimming coaches, yoga teachers, nutritionists, Chinese medicine practitioners, etc.
"If you want to design beautiful clothes, you must first make yourself beautiful!" This was the first lesson Paul taught her.
Of course, the "beautiful" Paul talks about doesn't just mean the face, but the inside! It includes temperament, taste, confidence, etc.
So Madoka began a life of tormenting her in a dark way.
She gets up at five o'clock every morning and eats a breakfast prepared by a professional nutritionist that tastes super weird and makes her want to vomit just by smelling it. However, it is said that this kind of food can help her lose weight without affecting her body.
healthy.
There is no need for her to clear the table after breakfast or wash the dishes.
"Your hands are used to design clothes, not to be a babysitter!" This was the second lesson Paul taught her.
Then, she followed the weight loss coach to run on the treadmill for an hour every morning, with only a five-minute rest allowed in between, and she had to memorize vocabulary words while running.
After running, the masseur will massage her from head to toe to relax her muscles.
Then, she went to the swimming pool to learn how to swim and swam the 50-meter pool back and forth 100 times!
After swimming, the Chinese medicine doctor gave her another bowl of decoction. It was so unpleasant that she felt like vomiting. But after vomiting one bowl, she drank two bowls, and after vomiting two bowls, she drank four bowls... Slowly, she got used to it.
After struggling like this day and night, finally, after more than half a year, she lost weight, finally lost weight!
Madoka looked at the girl in the mirror and couldn't believe it was her. She was overjoyed, but she didn't realize that she didn't even have time to be happy, and a more terrifying nightmare struck again.
"If you want to design beautiful clothes, you must first know how to appreciate beauty!" This was the third lesson Paul taught her.
Then, many people came to the big house where she was, including makeup artists, hairdressers, photographers, artists...etc.
Her second round of bad training begins.
She is like a Barbie doll, being pushed back and forth by those people every day.
She reads twenty fashion magazines every day and tells her thoughts after reading each one.
After more than half a year, she finally passed the test.
All in all, it had been almost two years since she came to Italy, but she had never touched a needle, so she couldn't wait to start making clothes.
But Paul said again, "Your foundation is already good enough. The basic skills the old lady taught you are not available to many students in vocational schools, so you don't have to rush."
It’s been over a year, almost two years, is it still just a moment?
Madoka, who had always been patient, finally became anxious, but Paul threw her to London with a wave of his hand.
There was no coach this time, no one, she was left to fend for herself.
No food, no drink, no housing, no money, not even tuition.
However, at this time, she already spoke proficient English, had the ability to appreciate beauty, had excellent basic skills, and had confidence, so she quickly got into the situation, studying while working, and started
A new life at Instituto Marangoni’s London campus.
Paul said that designers can continue to cook while they can support themselves, but they cannot wash dishes for others when they are hungry. This is not to look down on the person who washes the dishes. This is called the nobility of art.
She kept Paul's words in mind. Even when she was so hungry that she couldn't even buy expired bread, she didn't wash the dishes. Instead, she used several newspapers, cut them into the shape of clothes and hats, fixed them with pins, and put them on
On the body, she stood on the street and used what Paul called performance art to attract the attention of passers-by. Some people applauded her and some put money in her hat.
She worked very hard and went all out to transfer from the London campus to the Paris campus in less than a year, and then moved from the Paris campus to the Milan campus even faster.
It was only then that Paul began to truly teach her design.
Although the time for "enlightenment" was late, with the previous efforts, everything will fall into place.
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