Reborn fashion designer

Chapter 148 TJ’s first income (please seek confirmation!)

"Hi there, Rose Matilda of France, welcome home."

Facing the thin Natalie Portman, Xiangyang smiled and reached out to shake hands with her.

Matilda is the name of the character she plays in "The Killer Is Too Cold". Of course, as a famous Hollywood movie star, the image she creates on the screen is not just a little girl who has not grown up.

Whether it is playing Al Pacino's stepdaughter in "The Wire" or her performance in Woody Allen's movie "Everybody Says I Love You", she has always been loved by everyone.

After she completed her studies and starred in the stage play "The Diary of Anne Frank", she also proved her potential with films such as "Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace", "Stealing Hearts", "Beauty", "V for Vendetta" and so on. His box office appeal and superb acting skills.

Natalie Portman, who had brown hair, laughed and said, "Marion will be angry if she hears what you said."

"It doesn't matter, I praise her as the 'Mona Lisa'." Xiang Yang smiled bitterly.

"Then you must be saying that if Mona Lisa's smile looked like hers, it would become the greatest work in the world." Natalie Portman quipped.

When Xiang Yang heard this, he almost choked to death.

But if he didn't say this, what else could he say?

Unlike Chinese, even in French, which is famous for its romance, Xiang Yang felt a little uncomfortable when he said sentences that praised others.The broad and profound Chinese language has countless beautiful words to describe beauty, but the words used to praise others in Europe and the United States are very dry.

It’s nothing more than complimentary style, for example:

“The word radiant is made for you.”

"With you, I feel like I'm standing on the top of the Himalayas."

Or just praise the other person’s uniqueness:

"I wish I were an iceberg, melting into the sunshine in your eyes."

"You are so beautiful that you can bring people back to life."

Or maybe with the help of movie lines:

"You know how beautiful your eyes are." "Fog Pier"

"You are as beautiful as a Virgin, mother, sister, lover. You are both a devil and an angel. You are a warm harbor and a refuge in the storm." "Sweet Life"

"Without you, who would I tell my beautiful moments to?" "Amélie"

If none of these are appropriate, you can only use the artist to praise the other person:

"Your face is perfectly symmetrical, like a Leonardo da Vinci sketch."

"You have Renaissance beauty."

Over and over again, these are really the words.I can't say it's bad, but the feeling it gives Xiangyang is only a little bit better than "You are beautiful, you are beautiful, you are so good-looking."

But he can't use Chinese words to praise the other party, because it doesn't matter if others don't understand it after you say it. The other party really wants to understand the meaning of your words, and he has to quote a lot of scriptures to make people know what is:

"Bright eyes are good at gazing, dimples support the power, beautiful appearance, quiet body and leisurely body." Or "the soft lines are blooming, and the leaves are falling gracefully."

However, Xiang Yang's brief embarrassment was quickly dissipated by Little John's words.

After shaking hands with Xiang Yang and getting to know each other, Natalie Portman also got to know Little John who was standing next to him.

"You're beautiful, you're beautiful, you're so good-looking, no no no, I mean, your Matilda is like my first love etched in my mind."

While shaking hands, Little John's voice trembled a little as he spoke.

Natalie Portman smiled slightly. Her smile was very characteristic. The corners of her grinned mouth were slightly downward, but not exaggerated. "Thank you, I also like your father's perfume."

"The dance skirt we designed for you is also very beautiful." Little John stared at the other party.

"Well, I've seen it." Natalie Portman turned her attention to Xiang Yang and smiled: "Xiang, Darren showed me your design, and I hope we can reach cooperation."

"I'm looking forward to it too." Xiang Yang nodded.

He said this not to be arrogant, but because the current situation was not a good time to sit down and discuss this matter.

So after a brief acquaintance, they chatted for a few words and then arranged a time to disperse.

But before they left, Natalie Portman's smile made Xiang Yang curious.

As soon as he noticed Little John's nymphomaniac face and wanted to say something, he was pulled aside by Bill.

The other party took out a cash check for 2 euros from his pocket.

"What is this doing?" Xiang Yang glanced curiously, but couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

"I sold your costume for you, and the money was given to you by Warner."

"And this good thing?"

"Yes."

"You don't have to pay tax." Xiang Yang confirmed before putting it away.

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The next day, Xiangyang immediately came to the bank with this 'huge' cash check and transferred it to his account.

But not long after it was stored, part of the money was quickly deducted.

One is the mortgage, and the other is to make up the money for Little John’s registered company.

Looking at the text messages on his mobile phone, Xiang Yang couldn't help but lament that it was really hard for a man to pay off his mortgage, and time passed really slowly.

But fortunately, he doesn't have to worry about the fixed investment funds.

On the other side, Liu Qianqian, who chatted with Su Chang very late last night and woke up naturally, immediately checked whether Xiang Yang had reported on time, then got up from the bed and washed up.

After a while, Su Chang also got up.

Unlike Liu Qianqian's laziness, she couldn't get up because she was too tired from filming, and because she was looking at a house and chatting until midnight yesterday.

"Are you two together? Let's eat first."

Liu Xiaoli, who knew that her daughter was going to see a house yesterday, saw two people coming out one on the left and one on the right. She was sitting elegantly on the sofa and stood up and said.

"Auntie, good morning, hehe." Su Chang saw her coming and greeted her with a smile. He hugged her arm affectionately and said with a smile: "What delicious food did you cook for me today? I miss it." It’s ready.”

"It's all your favorite food." Liu Xiaoli noticed the dark circles near Su Chang's eye bags and said distressedly: "How has the recent filming been?"

"Very good." Su Chang murmured.

After stroking Su Chang's hair kindly, Liu Xiaoli glanced at her daughter who was drooling at the food on the table, turned her head and told her, "Fine well and don't imitate Qian Qian."

"Hehe, I know, Auntie." Su Chang pursed his lips.

Last night, I listened with great interest to Liu Qianqian talking about a lot of things about Xiang Yang. She actually thought it was good for the two of them to be together.But she can understand Liu's reaction. After all, if such a big baby suffers a loss, it will

"Mom, come and sit down, I'm starving." Liu Qianqian urged her with a bulging face, covering her belly.

<divclass="contentadv">She really listened to the conversation between the two.

She was very dissatisfied with her friend's surrender of the gun without any bottom line. Even last night, she was still envious of the love she had gained.

"Eat, eat, eat. Get up early when you know you are hungry." When she came to the dining table and sat down, Liu Xiaoli said sarcastically to her daughter.

Liu Qianqian didn't seem to hear her, "Mom, do you have any plans today? I want to talk to you."

Liu Xiaoli remained calm when she heard this. She knew exactly what her daughter was planning.She picked up the spoon and drank the soup she had stewed. Then she said, "If you want to buy it, buy it."

Liu Qianqian was stunned by these words.

She also thought that her mother would not agree to her spending so much money to buy a house.

After all, her income from this endorsement, after deducting taxes, is really not enough to pay off the 400-square-meter mansion at once.

Moreover, she didn't want to be like Xiang Yang and bear such heavy loan pressure.

Therefore, if you want to pay it off in one lump sum, you will definitely get back some of the money you borrowed from your mother.

"As long as you don't write his name, you can buy whatever you want." Liu Xiaoli put down the bowl of soup and said softly.

Liu Qianqian, "."

"Hehe, what Auntie said, how could Sissi be so stupid as to write his name?" Seeing this, Su Chang quickly said: "Sissi is just investing. After all, the money is placed in the bank. No matter how much it is, it will only be a few dollars." Points of interest, right?”

"She," Liu Xiaoli glanced sideways at her daughter and swallowed what she was about to say.

Xiangyang's name cannot be written about the house. This is her bottom line.

Even if the two of them finally got married, she would not allow such a thing to happen.After all, every penny of my daughter’s money is earned through hard work. If something bad happens in the future,

After experiencing two failed marriages, she felt that it was still necessary to set the tone for something from the beginning.

Anyone who has had a lot of life experience knows that simple friendship and trust are very rare.It takes a long time for people to become old friends, and trust needs to be established in an instant.

In her eyes, it was a mistake for her daughter to get together with Xiang Yang so early.

What's more, she lacks trust in Xiangyang.

But one thing she now admits is that Xiang Yang is doing good for her daughter in some aspects, and she can feel it.

So she was also trying to persuade herself not to be a villain in her daughter's emotional relationship with Xiang Yang, but when it came to actual interests, she couldn't remain silent, nor could she be an outsider.

In short, she felt that it was ridiculous for her daughter to want to have her name on the real estate certificate.

"Xiang Yang didn't say anything about writing his name." Liu Qianqian, who kept stuffing food into her mouth, her cheeks bulging like a hamster, hesitated to express her dissatisfaction.

"You, you just want to look at him everywhere and your heart." Liu Xiaoli said word by word.

"Hehe." Liu Qianqian rolled her eyes and squeezed out a smile to answer her mother.

Hearing this, Su Chang looked between the two of them and leaned forward slightly, "That's true, Sissi, in front of auntie, I also want to remind you that you need to maintain your sanity, you understand. .”

Hearing this, Liu Qianqian's face froze.

Feeling the glances from the two of them, she showed a hint of shyness on her brows and blurted out: "Hey, I'm not really stupid.

Besides, Xiangyang works hard too. "

"Sissi, mom has never denied that Xiang Yang is a hard-working child from the beginning." Liu Xiaoli's tone was calm, with a little more warmth, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. After dinner, mom will accompany you to see house.

If you like it, settle on it.

It will save you from worrying about this every day. "

"hey-hey."

In the office, Xiangyang was sorting out the messy sketches on his desk when he received a call from Darren.

Hearing that the other party was ready, Xiangyang immediately called Little John, who was also busy, and drove to the hotel where the other party was staying. When they met, they exchanged a few simple greetings, and each of them ordered a cup of coffee before sitting down.

"Xiang, Natalie and I both like your first draft of the design very much. But there is something I want to reveal to Natalie and you." Darren sat on the chair, put down his coffee, and showed a slightly ashamed smile. Said to Xiang Yang:

"The amount of investment we have in this movie is limited, so you can see if you can use less jewelry in the design of the ballet costumes."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Natalie Portman.

Natalie lightly traced the edge of the glass with her fingers, raised her head to meet the eyes of Xiang Yang and Little John, and said with some embarrassment:

"Yes, Xiang, I really like your design, especially this black feather dance skirt. I really want to see how it will look when made. It's really exciting."

The film they collaborated on only raised $1300 million in investment.

Before looking for directions, they had already visited the designer introduced by George Balanchine, the father of American ballet. According to their estimate, the cost of preparing the two ballet costumes for the heroine alone would be US$30, not counting that. The crown on the head of the heroine.

Yes, a good ballet costume is expensive.

If you want to say who knows the charm of French haute couture best in France, it must be the costume department of the Paris Opera.

154 dancers have to order 100 custom-made new costumes every few weeks. In order to save money, they are reluctant to use Swarovski crystals if not necessary, but use artificial diamonds instead.Even so, because each dance skirt takes more than 40-60 hours to make, coupled with the price of fabrics, the Paris Opera still racks its brains every year to reduce expenses in various ways.

You know, the annual budget of this opera house is 800 million euros per year (2013).

Xiang Yang was stunned for a moment, not believing his ears. There was no reason why he would be haggled as soon as he came up.

This made him couldn't help but turn his attention to Little John.

After all, their division of labor is different. When it comes to business, it is more appropriate for the other party to take action.

Unexpectedly, Little John didn't even look at Xiang Yang, and directly stretched out two fingers, "20, we will take this job for 20 euros."

Darren was stunned when he heard this. He cast his gaze on Xiang Yang and asked anxiously, "Are you sure?"

Little John didn't give Xiang Yang a chance to speak at all, he patted his chest and said with a smile:

"Sure, I'm the manager, I have the final say on this matter!"

Looking at his smug face, Xiang Yang was confused, but when he was about to say something, Natalie Portman had already stood up happily, held Little John's hand, and thanked:

"Thank you. I really didn't expect you to give me such a big surprise. I'm really happy."

Little John: "Don't worry, we are professionals."

Xiangyang, "."