It's not easy to be a supermodel [Comprehensive British American American Entertainment]

The rare appointment was temporarily canceled, and Letty kissed her angry and aggrieved boyfriend comfortingly on the face, and then went out alone.

Tony looked at her back, then gave Natalie an unbelievable look, and complained dissatisfiedly: "How could she do this?!"

Normally, shouldn't he, the (former) CEO of Stark Industries, be busy?Why is he the one who is left out now?Is the script upside down? !

The red-haired secretary couldn't help laughing, and joked: "Miss Lopez is in charge of making money to support the family, so don't complain so much."

Tony: "...I don't need her to support me!"

……

On the way to Martin's residence, Leti was full of thoughts about what the MDC people wanted her for. She thought about it, and the only connection she had with MDC was the Top 50 list.

However, this list is based on MDC's own internal investigation and rankings, and it will not directly contact the models, and this meeting was held in Martin's place instead of a public place, indicating that it is likely to be a secret contact that cannot be seen.

It was not the first time for Letty to come to Martin's office. She and Penny thought that Susan had held several meetings here.Martin is obviously also a master who does not wait for money. His apartment in Midtown is even more luxurious than the duplex unit Letty went to. As far as she knows, this uncle in his 40s is neither married nor has a girlfriend. He is alone. He lived alone, so Letty often made fun of him as a "bachelor".

At this time, Martin would refute her and say, "It's not that I can't find it, but that I don't want to find it."

When she arrived, she texted Martin that she had arrived, and soon there were footsteps behind the door.

"You'd better explain what's going on, or Tony will come to settle accounts with you." She squinted her eyes in displeasure at Martin behind the door.

Martin didn't react to her threat, he just gave her a look and made a way out, "The situation is a bit complicated, let's talk about it when we come in."

Martin led Letty into the room, and the brown-haired lady sitting on the sofa in the living room immediately stood up when she saw her, and extended her hand to her in a friendly manner: "I finally have the opportunity to meet you, I am Kelly Thompson, Nice to meet you." As she spoke, she added: "I'm sorry for the sudden incident, and I asked you to cancel the date."

"It's okay, work is important." Although she was dissatisfied, Leti still smiled and shook hands with her politely, "I believe it must be a very important matter, so my agent called me over in such a hurry."

Now that everyone has arrived, the three of them move to the dining room and sit at the dining table, which is more convenient for conversation and feels more formal.

Martin, who knew Letty's habits, poured her a glass of water, then sat down next to Letty, and Kelly sat opposite them, forming a small triangle.

Kelly lifted her glasses and quickly got to the point: "That's right, the major lists on our website models.com will be officially released next month—that is, a week later, and now we are entering the final stage of adjustment. , I believe you have been paying attention to it all the time, right?"

Letty's face became serious, and he asked, "You mean, you already have preliminary ranking results?"

"That's right." Kelly smiled slightly, "You were ranked thirteen in 2005, and I can tell you that you are one of the strong contenders for No.2006 in 1."

The black-haired girl raised her eyebrows, it was indeed related to Top50.But this Kelly came here to tell her that she might compete for the first place?Certainly not.

"Before telling my purpose, let's summarize your performance in 2006." Kelly's eyes behind the lens flashed a sharp light, and she opened the file with a smile, and read the above data: " Last year, you walked through 89 fashion shows, including 79 haute couture shows and 22 ready-to-wear shows. Among them, there were [-] opening shows and [-] closing shows. You participated in at least one show for each of the six major blue blood brands and the eight major red blood brands. .If you hadn’t sprained your ankle in last year’s spring/summer fashion show and missed most of Paris Fashion Week, you would have scored full marks in catwalks. Similarly, your performance in advertising is also extremely impressive. For details, let me know It’s not listed here, but it’s close to full marks.”

Hearing this, Leti clenched her fist, and what she was worried about happened. Sure enough, the absence of fashion week due to the injury had a certain impact.

"And in terms of endorsements, you received nine endorsements in 06 - LV, Marc Jacobs and Versace's autumn winter and spring summer series of ready-to-wear endorsements, Versace's global endorsement, CK's underwear and Gucci's glasses endorsement." Said. Here Kelly changed her tone and gave her a heavy blow, "Although there are three blue blood brands, only one of them is the mainline endorsement."

Kelly is right. Among the six blue bloods, she has only endorsed the main line of LV, which is a little insufficient. But fortunately, she has Versace as her mother. Even if Versace is a red blood, the status of the global spokesperson of red blood is still higher than that of blue blood Blood's mainline spokesperson is much higher.

Letty noticed that Kylie hadn't mentioned her collaboration with Maybelline at all, an open-shelf brand that was clearly branded in her eyes as unfashionable.

She raised her eyes and glanced at the black-haired girl, and continued to say in an unremarkable tone: "Magazine covers are your weakest link, even if you have been on the covers of 25 magazines this year, the inside pages are even more neglected." Quite a few, but among the four most important covers, you only won the US version and the French version, which is still a long way from the perfect score."

"Then let's talk about your strongest opponent - Gemma Ward's record this year." Kelly took a sip of coffee, and then said: "It's a pity, because you were absent from the Paris Spring/Summer Fashion Week, her The catwalk scores are on par with yours. And although she has not received as many endorsements as you, she has two consecutive seasons of double blue-blood main line endorsements, and your respective performances are comparable, and more importantly—” She paused intentionally After a while, the tone revealed deep meaning, "Even though she doesn't have as many covers as you, she has blown up the top four covers, and her performance in magazines is slightly better than yours. The gap here has become the decisive factor."

It took Letty some time to digest the information, and she glanced at the silent manager next to him, who hadn't spoken until now, which is really rare.

"So because of my injury, my overall score was a little lower than that of Gemma Ward, and I missed No.1." The brunette girl calmly concluded, "Ms. Thompson, you came here specially to find me. In order to tell me that I can only be the second, right?"

"Of course not. Your scores are very close. If you didn't miss Paris Fashion Week, I dare say you would be number one, but sometimes these surprises are really frustrating." Kelly closed the file and folded her hands Folded on the table, Leti, who has experienced several negotiation dinners, can see at a glance that this is a posture ready for negotiation.

"But the purpose of my trip is to give you a chance—the only chance to be No.1."

Letty maintained her usual expression, but her heart trembled heavily.

Chance to be on MDCTop50No.1? !

She never thought that such a good thing would come to her door—no, it’s better not to be happy too early, this is definitely not a free lunch, Kelly spent a lot of time analyzing her and Gemma’s situation with her, it’s impossible Just to send her to the top 50, right?She was casting the bait she was holding and waiting for Letty to catch the fish.

Letty, who thought more and more deeply, lost the uncontrollable ecstasy when she heard Kelly's words, and was replaced by deep thinking.

"I don't understand." Letty frowned, "So your leaderboard can still be operated like this?"

She was referring to the black box operation, how could Kelly not hear it, but she just raised her chin slightly, and said calmly: "The proportions of catwalks, endorsements, magazines, and advertisements are slightly adjusted every year, and there will be more fine-tuning this year. It's not surprising."

Letty was silent. What she meant was that she could adjust the weighting of various indicators so that her score was higher than that of Gemma Ward, making her a first sister.

According to Kelly, if it weren't for the accident, she would have become the first sister in 06, but there is no "if", the incident will really happen, and the result now is that she really can't compete with Gemma. Ward.

But Letty is not naive enough to fully believe Kelly's words. One of the advantages of having trust issues—no, the only advantage is that she doesn't trust others easily. In a few seconds, she has already envisioned Kelly in her mind. In a few hypothetical situations of lying.

For example, in fact, she did not lose to Gemma Ward at all. Kelly came here to negotiate with her with fake data in order to gain benefits from her.

But at the next moment, Letty denied this assumption—even if Kelly really thought she was such a fool, how could she pass her manager first?Did she think that a senior model agent would just agree to the conditions she offered without even having to be certified?

So after a round of contemplation, she asked, "Can I have a look at your files?"

"Of course." Kelly had expected this, and handed her the file generously.

Letty opened it, and spent 10 minutes carefully reading each line. This entire stack of paper clearly and detailedly listed every event that was included in the scoring for her and Gemma Ward, such as their walk. Every show, every endorsement, and every magazine cover that I have ever had, the scores of the four parts of catwalk, endorsement, magazine, and advertisement are also indicated next to it.

Also, at the bottom of the paper there are two numbers clearly printed in toner.

Their total score is only two points away.

Letty gasped, and the seal of the MDC company directly proved the authenticity of this document, Kelly did not lie!

Damn it, if it wasn't for that accident...

Realizing that this thought came to her, Letty quickly suppressed that negative emotion.

She can't think like this, so that she falls into Kelly Thompson's trap-make her annoyed, make her unwilling, then she will "naturally" agree to her conditions in order to get back what belongs to her.

Calm down first, she can't let unwillingness get carried away.

All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind one by one, Letty didn't show any obvious emotions, and asked straight to the point: "What conditions do you have?"

Seeing that the negotiation has progressed, Kelly raised the corner of her mouth and said relaxedly, "We just want a favor from you."

Her favor?

Letty's eyelids twitched, she really couldn't figure it out, what does models.com, an authoritative international model website, need her to do?

And she also asked the question in her heart: "Actually, what do you need me to do?"

"I can't answer you now, you will know after you think it over and express your intention."

"So I have to say yes to everything you want without knowing it? That sounds very insecure to me."

Kelly shook her head with a smile, "No, I won't make things difficult for you if you don't want to sign after knowing the exchange terms, but I promise this is a mutually beneficial transaction."

Looking at the complex expression of the brunette girl, Kelly continued to throw out temptations: "This is the closest opportunity for you to get close to the first sister. If you miss this time, you may not have it next time—can you guarantee that this year's performance will be better than last year's?" ?Maybe you are very confident in yourself, but I believe you are a smart girl, will you use your career as a bet? You should also understand how important this honor is to you. "

Letty's hands hidden under the table unconsciously clenched into fists—how could she not know!

How important is the first sister of MDC to Letty?

—Very, very, very important.Even, this is the key to whether she can be promoted to the supermodel level.

Who are the first sisters in history?Angela Lindelwald, Gisele Bündchen, KK, Leah Capiti and Dahlia Walboy.These current supermodels all stood out from the crowd of models, and they were recognized as supermodels only after they ascended the throne of the first sister.Or it can be said that the Top50 list is the most direct criterion to measure whether a model is qualified to become a supermodel.

Although the five supermodels including Naomi and Kate Moss have not won the first sister, because MDC has not yet appeared in their time, and the two supermodels Carmen Case and MCB have not won. , but these seniors are still recognized as supermodels.

But as Benjamin Faison said, Letty's achievements in the fashion industry in the past two years are obvious to all. Everyone calls her from "Newcomer" > "Rising Star" > "Supermodel". The affirmation of honor, so what she urgently needs is tolerance, and the affirmation from the international authoritative model website is definitely the best and most credible tolerance.

To use a metaphor, what MDC's first sister is to her is what an Oscar winner or actress is to an actor, and it is their ticket to another level.Once you get it, this honor will follow you for a lifetime.

In the end, Kelly gave a time limit with a sense of winning: "Of course, I don't want you to give me an answer now. I will give you a night to think about it with Mr. Lex."

……

After sending Kelly away, Letty looked at the agent who had remained silent all this time, and asked in a flat tone: "Before I came, I'm afraid you have already talked, right? You still called me here despite knowing her purpose." —You want me to promise, don't you?"

Based on Martin's abnormal behavior just now, it is actually not difficult to guess what happened before she came.

In the past, Martin would have been very active in matters concerning her interests, but he didn't even say a word today.

Unless he knew Kelly's purpose early on.

Martin didn't intend to hide anything, and directly admitted: "Yes."

She said calmly again: "And you also know their conditions."

The two looked at each other silently, and under the gaze of the black-haired girl, Martin nodded slowly.

The brunette girl closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and exhaled again. When she opened her eyes again, her eyes were full of complex emotions.

"Tell me."

This is a dilemma.

Even if she did miss the first sister because of injury, Gemma Ward, who replaced her, did nothing wrong. Although Kelly said that this was not a black box operation, in essence, the essence of both is the same. In the same way, no matter what, this approach is really unfair to Gemma.

But is there really such a thing as fair and unfair in fashion?Being a model is not a competition, there are no rules, even the sports world may not be able to achieve 100% fair competition, let alone the fashion industry, this is a game to see who is more capable, frankly speaking MDC chooses to support Letty is not Gemma, so naturally they have their own considerations. Within this consideration, they prefer Letty, isn't it one of her strengths?

One thing that Kelly said is very pertinent is that her performance this year may not be better than last year. Many people say that 06 was her peak period, and even Letty herself can't guarantee that she can always remain at the peak. period, so if you miss this time, you may miss it for the rest of your life.

This dilemma - future and principles, how should she choose?

For the first time after entering the industry, Letty felt so lost.