Reborn fashion designer

Chapter 183 The first 'friendly meeting' (please subscribe!)

Under the moonlight, the door of the villa slowly opened.

After a while, Axel's assistant put down a few Hermès bags and left with a smile as Xiang Yang and Liu Qianqian expressed their condolences.

"I didn't expect it to be so generous."

Back in the house, Xiang Yang looked at this year's limited edition Constance, Kelly, Birkin in the bag, as well as the Teddy Kelly 2006 that Liu Qianqian had touched in the store for a long time, and suddenly had a wild idea.

If you sell them, you should be able to buy a lot of shares.

Then, multiply it many times.

However, before he could express his thoughts, these cute little guys were put away by Liu Qianqian.

"I gave it to you, why don't you use it?"

Seeing Liu Qianqian put it in the box after briefly looking at it, and silently took it to the closet to put it away, Xiang Yang couldn't help but asked curiously.

"Ah, keep it as a gift."

Liu Qianqianwan finished speaking with a smile and put on a smart expression towards Xiangyang, "My mother will definitely like it, as well as Changchang, Jiajia, and, by the way, Emma."

"Then don't you keep one for yourself?"

Xiang Yang was surprised. There were four bags in total, and they were all given away. This girl didn't know to keep one for herself.

At least, let's keep the 06 version of Teddy Kelly. He can also see that Liu Qianqian likes that bag very much.

"Hehe, I'll think about it again, don't be in a hurry." After thinking for a while, Liu Qianqian came to Xiangyang without being too entangled, "If it doesn't work, I will buy one myself and give it to them."

Xiang Yang nodded, acquiescing to his girlfriend's idea.

"Princess Sissi, it's just a bad situation."

"Hehe, it's mainly free," Liu Qianqian said with a smile, and she couldn't help but laugh happily, "I still like the vegetable basket you gave me."

"food basket?"

Xiangyang raised his eyebrows. The first thing he thought of was the Hermès vegetable basket (Picotin Lock Bag), a brand new model launched in 2002. It was originally intended as a feed bag and was made of calfskin.

Then he immediately smiled sheepishly and said, "But you have never used that to hold food."

"Yeah, I remember I did."

"Is there?"

"Have"

Liu Qianqian is still sleeping soundly, and Xiang Yang, a worker, has already set off.

After parking the car and having a cup of coffee with Little John to relax, the two began to discuss going to London.

"Downton Abbey" screenwriter Julian Fellowes and the British television station ITV have made preliminary preparations. With sufficient preparations, the two decided not to delay.

"Sarah, take a break from your work."

"Well, okay, does the supervisor have anything to do with me?"

Sarah asked.

"Of course, I'll take you to London, give me your passport, and I'll ask Little John to buy you a plane ticket."

After some discussion, Xiangyang and Little John decided to take Sarah with them. When there was a lot of luggage, it was a good thing to have one more person to help. Secondly, the information Sarah prepared was very complete, which helped to a certain extent. Xiangyang is very busy.

Under such circumstances that the clothing team would definitely need to expand, Xiangyang and the others decided that it would be more suitable to find their own people.

"I'll go with you."

When Xiang Yang came to the jewelry design office area to find Pierre Hardy to confirm the information he helped prepare, the other party said with a smile.

"You have time?"

Xiang Yang, who had just helped him find his first client, was stunned for a moment.

"It depends on whether you have time or not."

"That's true." Xiang Yang smiled unconsciously.

Two days later, on a weekend morning.

Several people took a flight and arrived in London together. August is the hottest time in summer in London. The average temperature is 8-18 degrees Celsius. There are occasional high temperatures, and the temperature will drop at night, and there are always raindrops falling.

Facing the arrival of the Hermès gang, ITV and Julian Fellowes took it very seriously.

The TV station attaches great importance to the project "Downton Abbey".

According to the script outline, ITV is planning to shoot 7 episodes in the first season, and the overall production budget is 6000 million pounds.

This appalling figure was obtained by Little John after asking someone to inquire about it. Although he knew that the production cost of this TV series was called 1 million per minute, when he first heard about this budget, Xiangyang was inevitably stunned.

In the field of European and American TV drama production, such terrifying single-episode production costs have actually appeared a long time ago.

The cost of "Friends" invested by NBC in 1994, due to the increase in actors' salaries, has reached 1000 million per episode for the entire season after being evenly divided.

The production cost of "Emergency Room Story", which also premiered in 1994 and was invested by NBC, was as high as 1300 million per episode.

As for the well-known "Game of Thrones", its production cost is actually not as high as everyone expected.

<divclass="contentadv">Excluding the sixth season, the production cost of a single episode is only about 600 million US dollars, but such an investment is considered a top-notch production cost in the field of TV dramas.

After passing customs.

As soon as several people retrieved their checked luggage from the luggage wheel, Little John had already contacted the ITV staff.

As soon as they came out, a man and a woman quickly came to them, exchanged a few words, and they drove to the TV station together.

ITV, established in 1955, is the second largest wireless television operator in the UK.

It is one of the largest comprehensive television stations in the UK, covering the panoramic view of the UK. Its main competitor is the BBC.

What's interesting is that "Millionaire" is ITV's world-famous quiz show. The show where the actor in "Slumdog Millionaire" participates is this classic of the station.

"Hi everyone, first time meeting you, welcome to ITV."

Because it is a large-scale period drama, the amount of investment is the highest in ITV's history. In addition to Julian, the screenwriter of the TV series, his niece, the novel author of "Downton Abbey", four producers, and An executive from ITV was all present.

The first cooperation discussion was so grand.

The unprepared Xiang Yang and the others were also surprised, but fortunately they were all people who had seen big scenes.

Except for Sarah's somewhat reserved behavior, Xiang Yang, Little John and Hardy quickly adapted to the situation. After getting to know each other, discussions about cooperation quickly began.

After the carefully drawn costume sketches were displayed, several pre-made clothes and simple accessories were also presented in sets on the dummy models prepared in advance for the meeting.

Due to financial constraints, Xiangyang and the others did not use expensive silk or satin, but tried their best to show their care in embroidery and variety.

Taking the most inconspicuous props, the silver tie and white gloves commonly used by classical British housekeepers, Sarah made a 1:1 reproduction under the guidance of Little John, not to mention those specially designed for other characters. Gloves ready.

Gloves were one of the indispensable accessories for British ladies of that period, and they were almost never without their body.

Whether you are riding a horse, having a dinner, going out or drinking tea, you must have different types of gloves.

The red tape is so strict that they even have to abide by it when eating at home.

For example, when dining before six o'clock in the evening, you need to wear a hat and gloves. During the meal, the elegant aristocratic ladies will take off their gloves and put them on their knees and cover them with a tablecloth.

The number of costume design sketches prepared by Little John and Xiang Yang also made everyone present shine.

In period dramas, the most important thing reflected in the costumes is their exquisiteness.

If the ladies of the British aristocracy make a table of the time they spend every day, it can be intuitively seen that these ladies who live a luxurious life spend half of their time changing clothes every day.

You need to change before breakfast, and before going out, driving, or riding a horse.It needs to be changed once before lunch, then again in the afternoon when studying or visiting friends, and again during dinner.

You know, during that period women were not allowed to show their legs, so most of the clothes had many layers of petticoats.

Just thinking about it makes me realize why they all need help from dedicated maids.

The same goes for men.

This is especially true for jewelry and accessories.

"Xiang, it's hard to imagine your intentions for "Downton Abbey". To be honest, there are many costume teams who want to participate in this project, and many of them are from your St. Martin's School of Art.

But in terms of the level of intention, it’s hard for me to imagine that this could be accomplished just by relying on a few of you. "

"We just made some adjustments based on the fabric conditions at the time." Faced with screenwriter Julian's praise, Xiang Yang said humbly: "However, Hardy put a lot of thought into the jewelry.

To be honest, I really didn’t expect our director to put so much effort into these props. "

"Xiang, you are humble."

Hearing Xiang Yang’s praise, Pierre Hardy said with a smile, “The main reason is that I happened to be studying the design transition between the Belle Epoque (1871-1914) and the Art Deco Era (20s-20s). From the inside Got some inspiration for elegance and sophistication, but honestly.”

Hardy looked at the few people with a smile and said: "If your producers give us more time to prepare, I believe our preparations will be more perfect. After all, jewelry is also the main means of reflecting the character's personality."

Screenwriter Julian and his niece heard this and nodded silently.

Several producers and the ITV executive also said they would carefully consider the views of Hermès's shoe and jewelry design director in this regard.

When it comes to movies and TV series, they are professionals.

But when it comes to the design of professional fields such as clothing and jewelry, it is obvious that they also know their own knowledge reserves about fashion and clothing, so they should not do it in front of a team composed of top Hermès designers.

Look at how professional they are prepared.

Even an Oriental umbrella from the early 20th century, they found reference objects and video materials from that time.

The producers of "Downton Abbey" couldn't be happier to have such a gimmickous costume team join in. They are afraid of comparison in many things.

It's not like ITV has never received other costume teams here.

Let’s put aside the professional matters for now, just the Hermès gimmick that these people have brought with them.

While looking at Xiang Yang and others, ITV executives suddenly came up with a bold idea.

There are a lot of scenes of nobles riding horses in the script design.

This group of Hermès designers came here to participate in the production of a TV series. It is impossible that Hermès was unaware of this, or that they had some internal support in some respects.

The whole of Europe knows how Hermès started. After Napoleon was defeated and exiled in 1837, a small craftsman who made harnesses in the army returned to Paris.

Then

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