The competition time this time is quite long, almost two days.

The morning of the first day was divided into groups. Heidi and Tim explained the mission of the competition to the designers, and then they took the transportation vehicle of the program group to the outdoor field in the outskirts of the city to obtain their competition materials and supplementary fabrics.This is their pre-match time this time.The following afternoon and evening hours, as well as the entire day of the next day, are their working hours.

Both Ely and Merlin were selected for the men's designer group.There are many male designers in this group, so their thinking is clear and well-organized. After clarifying the common design style, everyone has assigned their own tasks and performed their duties. The cooperation is very pleasant.

At the end of the day, the results are remarkable.They not only made the base pattern of the clothes, but also dyed and printed the fabrics, selected the accessories that might be used, and even dyed the leather shoes that the models would wear into a uniform dark blue.As soon as the fabric is dry the next morning, they can start cutting and sewing directly.Therefore, the mood of this group of designers is quite clear.

However, when Yili and Merlin returned to the dormitory hand in hand at night, they had to face Ashley and Lindsay, who looked sad.

Because of the happy cooperation between Yili and Merlin in the group, the relationship between the two is also quite close at this time.However, Ashley and Lindsay don't seem to be working very well together.Ellie noticed that Ashley and Lindsay were both sitting on their beds, not saying a word.It was as if they were not companions in the same group, but indifferent strangers.

"Is your group okay?" Yili sat down beside Ashley's bed and asked cautiously.

Of course, she knew that the group of female designers did not cooperate very well, and asking at this time was just to show goodwill.

"...That's it." Ashley opened her mouth, wanting to say something, and then noticed Lindsay on the side, and finally swallowed back what she wanted to say, but twitched the corners of her mouth bitterly——she felt She is like a transparent person in the group, no one is willing to listen to her opinion, she can feel that she is faintly excluded.It's a bad feeling.

"What design are you going to do?" Realizing that Ashley didn't want to talk more about the group in front of Lindsay, Yili simply changed the topic to Ashley's personal design. At least, this topic was absolutely safe.

"I want to make a top with a large pleated collar, and then..." Ashley really didn't shy away from this question, and the two chatted a little bit about their designs.

Soon, Lindsay took her clothes and went to the bathroom to remove makeup and take a shower—although Americans are used to taking a shower in the morning, it was too hot in August, and the paintball fight at noon made people sweat , It is normal to wash it more than once at night.

Yili took advantage of this time to whisper to Ashley.

"Seriously, Ashley, what do you think?" Yili asked in a low voice, "What happened to your group?"

"I don't know." Ashley scratched her purple hair a little irritably, "I don't know what they want to design, and I don't know what they want to dye the fabric. No one wants to talk to me. I feel terrible."

"Did you not discuss it before?" Yi Li asked in surprise.

"We discussed it, but there was no result at all, and they seemed to have no idea at all." Ashley shook her head and said sadly, "Every time I wanted to say something, I was interrupted by others, I..." She almost A little choked up.In this team, she is not happy at all, and design should be a happy thing for her.

"Oh, Ashley..." Yili hurriedly hugged her, patted her on the shoulder to comfort her.

After Ashley's mood calmed down a bit, Yili spoke again, "Ashli, you have to do something. You know, the judges value the ready-made clothes the most, and you have to find a way to design a good-looking outfit. "

"I know." Ashley was very frustrated. "I'm confident in my designs, but I don't have any nice fabrics. You know what? They ruined all the fabrics. When they first dyed and printed patterns, They didn’t think about anything, just dyed by instinct, smashing those colorful paintballs on the fabric casually, without considering the color matching at all. When I realized later, our fabrics had already been used up, and the only thing left was It’s just two pieces of big orange and big purple fabric.” Ashley said here, her tone extremely desperate.

"Oh my god..." Ellie didn't know what was going on, she just saw the dyed cloth that Ashley's group had been hanging out to dry - it did look awful.She thought it was a mistake in dyeing and printing, but she didn't expect that the group didn't think about the color and pattern to be dyed at all.This is simply, simply pure nonsense.

At this moment, Yili had a new understanding of the unreliability of the female designer group, and she was also sincerely grateful to Lindsay for not choosing herself into this big pit.She wasn't sure she could do better than Ashley in this situation.She suspected that if she joined that team, she might also be treated indifferently.

The sound of the water in the bathroom gradually stopped, and Yili and Ashley also stopped the sound tacitly—if Lindsay heard Ashley's complaints, Ashley's situation in that team might be even worse .So the two began to talk about some innocuous conversations as if nothing had happened, and after Lindsay came out of the bathroom, they took turns to take a bath, and then the four of them said good night and went to sleep.

Silent all night.

The next day was another busy day.

The fabric of Yili's group dried to a clear and elegant light blue, which is very beautiful.And the fabric of the group of female designers next to it showed a strange red, orange and purple color, which was as funny as a Halloween egg (Tim).Yili heard a lot of painful groans from over there.

When the designers started cutting the fabric, Tim pushed open the door and walked in, followed by a young woman with big brown curly hair.Tim introduced that she is SallyBeauty's nail consultant, and the contestants can use SallyBeauty's nail polish to decorate their models under her guidance.

Designers all know that this is the routine of the program group - Sally Beauty is the sponsor company of the program group's hairdressing studio, and it is natural for the program group to promote the company's nail polish.So the designers held back the displeasure of being interrupted at work, forcibly showing joy and joy, and visited the company's mobile nail art car one by one to choose their favorite nail polish.The so-called mobile nail art truck actually looks similar to the ice cream truck on the street, except that instead of ice cream, the truck's compartment is filled with bright nail polish filled with rows of shelves.

Considering that the colors of the fabrics are all blue, the designers in Yili's group also chose a variety of blue nail polishes.Ellie likes a simpler decor, so she ended up choosing a simpler French gradient—white near the base of the nail, light blue in the middle, and blue on the outside.

Her model Natalie has a pair of slender hands, and the blue and white gradient nails look fresh and beautiful.Although Yili felt that the judges couldn't see the nail color clearly, she knew that the camera would definitely take a close-up of the model's nails.After all, I have to take care of the sponsor of the program group.

With this contingency handled, the designers got back to their clothes.

Ely's design isn't complicated to say the least, at least compared to Swopnier's pleated skirt.Swopnier's dress is definitely a big project.But Yili didn't feel that her skirt was worse than the other party's.

In fact, Swopnir's dress should look great, and it looks beautiful.But in the past two years, simplicity and beauty have been popular, and his folds are too much.Although it has the complex and luxurious sense of Hollywood's golden age, it may not be the style that the judges like most, and it has a little comedy.In short, Ellie thinks that Swopnier's dress will make it to the top division, but the chances of winning are low.

"How are you doing?" Just as Yili was using a pin to adjust the size and folds of the garment on the mannequin, ready for the final stitching, Xie Cheng, who was working next to her, turned his head and asked.

"Soon." Yili looked at the effect of the fabric wrapped on the mannequin, nodded in satisfaction, and then picked up the cut fabrics, ready to go to the sewing room for processing.

"I always feel that our patterns look too plain." Xie Cheng also picked up the lotus leaf pleats he was going to make at the seam of his trousers, and walked beside Yi Li.The two walked side by side to the sewing room.

"Hmm..." Yili stopped, looked back at the fabric on the model, and raised her chin thoughtfully.After Xie Chengyi said, she also had this feeling.Indeed, the light blue fabric, coupled with a small amount of splatter lines at the bottom, has a feeling that the embellishment is not in place.To put it more bluntly, there is no bright spot.

"How about drawing some flowers?" Merlin also came over and suggested.

"What kind of flower? Anna Sui's rose flower or Chanel's camellia flower?" Yi Li said hastily, her eyes lit up.

"Camellia." Xie Cheng thought for a while, the roses were too gorgeous, not suitable for their elegant skirts, "Can you draw?"

"Yes." Yili nodded, put down the fabric, and quickly brought a dark blue paint from the side, "How about using this color? Does it match the color of the line at the bottom?"

"Okay." Xie Cheng and Merlin agreed.

Other designers in the same group noticed their movements.After asking, I heard that they decided to add some hand-painted patterns, and they all agreed that this was a good idea.So, Yili tried to draw on the unused fabric, and based on Chanel's classic camellia shape, she drew a simple camellia pattern designed by herself.Everyone else thought it was very beautiful, so it was decided that Yili would draw such beautiful and delicate patterns on everyone's ready-made clothes.

Designers are like bees, coming in and out of the studio and sewing room, busy to complete their works.

When Yili put down her work and was about to leave the studio and go to the small kitchen next door to have something to eat, she happened to see Ashley coming out of the solo interview room next door wiping her tears. There were two lines on her face. Conspicuous tear stains.

"Ashley?" Yili couldn't help calling out, "You don't look well, what happened?"

"No, it's nothing." Ashley wiped off the marks on her face in embarrassment, but it made her makeup look even worse.

"Ashley..." Yili didn't know whether to ask, and finally could only remind, "We are going to the flyover in the evening, are you ready?" This was just her casual reminder, Ashley probably Will give an affirmative answer casually, this is the dialogue mode that Yili imagined.She thought it was a safe topic, but she didn't expect Ashley's tears to come down suddenly.

"Ashley..." Yili was at a loss immediately, "What's wrong with you?"

"I..." Ashley covered her mouth and shook her head with the most tears in her eyes, but her fat body seemed to suddenly lose the strength to support it, and she squatted down slowly, shedding tears silently.

"Ashley..." At this time, Yili couldn't just leave like this, so she also squatted down with Ashley, half hugged Ashley's body, patted her on the back, and silently comforted her.

"They, those bitches..." Ashley choked up, and whispered an indecent word that needed to be silenced.

However, perhaps because of her opening, Ashley continued smoothly, "Laurie told me that Candice and the others are going to blame me. If we are in the low group and stay to be criticized by the judges, They're going to flatter each other and put the blame on me this time. I shouldn't just go home like this, I can't..."

"God..." Yili was really shocked, "Who is there? I mean, of course you shouldn't go home. We and the judges can see your talent. But Candice and the others really plan to do this Do it?"

It was just like campus bullying, Yili didn't expect that someone would actually do this kind of thing under the camera of the program group.Wait, Ashley just walked out of the interview room, that is to say, Ashley has already told the program crew these words?After realizing this, Yili knew that those female designers were doomed.Not to mention that he missed the championship, at least he has an indelible stain on his back.

You know, in the past programs, although there were some designers who were relatively bad, and often venomously talked about other people's works, and behaved very bitch, they would never do such blatant bullying.This is no longer a question of character, but a question of character.Although the program group likes to watch the discord between the contestants, the program group also has a bottom line.And those designers who secretly plan to push Ashley to talk back may have touched this bottom line.

Thinking of this, Yi Li couldn't help but think of what to do.

"Ashley, you can't just let them go on like this." Yili held Ashley's arm and said sincerely, "If your design is not good enough, it is definitely not your problem. You are a team, you The leader is the one who needs to be held accountable. Ashley, you have to speak for yourself."

"Speak for yourself..." Ashley was obviously a little bit distracted, and looked at Yili blankly with eyes dazzled by tears.

"Yes." Yili nodded solemnly, and encouraged, "Speak out what's on your mind, tell what happened to you in the team, and let the judges know that you're not the one to take responsibility. You're just dragged down by the team." , you shouldn't be going home for this."

"That's right...that's right..." Ashley nodded again and again, and Yili's words completely spoke to her heart, "I will make it clear to the judges, you are right, this is not my responsibility. I You shouldn't be going home." Her dim eyes gradually glowed.

"That's it." Seeing that Ashley had listened to her own words, especially the word of responsibility that she repeatedly emphasized, Yili showed a small smile, patted her on the back, and said softly, "Come on, Ashley, you can't fall down here."

"Yeah!" Ashley nodded, stood up slowly with Yili's help, and said to herself, "I can't fall down here, my clothes are not ready yet, I can't go home here , I haven't shown my best side yet."

"Of course, you can do it, Ashley. Come on!" Yili knew that the girl was fine.

In the next competition, as long as Ashley is there, those people are doomed not to reach the top.Ashley's presence will be a constant reminder to the judges of what those people have done.After all, what the audience likes to see is the story of "good over evil", and no one wants to see the villain become the ultimate winner.This is not in line with the value orientation of this program and this society.

In other words, Ashley has become a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of those people.

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