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

A few days before the start of Paris Haute Couture Week, Letty had already arrived in Paris to conduct her second fitting at the ateliers of various brands.This time I tried on the clothes she actually wore on the stage. The team will fine-tune the clothes according to her figure, but most of them are not necessary, because the models have similar body shapes, and they are all thin, and their heights will not differ. Too far, unless you have very large breasts, it's usually okay to temporarily swap the same outfit for another model.

The outfit assigned to Letty was the same one she had tried on in the interview, and as the only pant suit in the entire collection, it was very unique, although she didn't know why it was assigned to her.

Recently, Letty's weight has picked up again. Psychiatric drugs like antidepressants inevitably have side effects. Even if she carefully controls her weight, it still inevitably increases bit by bit.

So in the past few days, in order not to affect the state of the catwalk, she stopped using antidepressants.

Her troubles in New York seem to have little effect here, which is understandable, everyone is so busy approaching the Haute Couture Fashion Week, there is no time to care about what a newcomer said.

That's fine, if people comment on her everywhere she goes, no matter how good her mentality is, she may not be able to withstand this pressure. Now she needs to adjust her mentality to welcome her real debut.

As she said to Martin, Allin or nothing, of course what she wants is not Nothing.

Valentino took the lead in this spring and summer haute couture fashion week in Paris. There are only eight brands participating in the fashion week first, so everyone does not have to compete with each other for the venue or the most ideal time slot. It will be arranged on weekend nights, and some less important shows will be arranged in the first few days.

There are a total of [-] to [-] shows on the four major Fashion Weeks, which are held in two to three weeks. The schedule is very intensive, and some brands will naturally be left out.

On the day before the Valentino Haute Couture show, people from the fashion industry from all over the world, including fashion designers, editors, media, models, buyers, brand public relations, etc., arrived in Paris one after another. The fashion show was already lively .

People from other countries may not read American newspapers, but the media and model publicists from New York have heard about Letty, and they couldn’t help gossiping with others. The fashion circle is so small, and everyone basically knows each other. Yes, and then it spread ten, ten and hundreds, and the news of "a newcomer is going to challenge the supermodels" spread among people in the circle, and became a topic of discussion after dinner.

Although some of them don't even know Letty's name, and no one has heard of her, they only know that she seems to have something to do with the chairman of Stark Industries, but it doesn't hinder their enthusiasm for gossip.

It is precisely because no one has heard of it that everyone sees it as a joke.

This is like a rich and powerful country suddenly hearing a small fishing village say that it is going to conquer a big country, which makes people laugh. Nowadays, the newcomers really do everything to become famous, and they deliberately made such a thing in order to increase exposure. Then how to round back.

They all automatically ignored an option, that is, the performance of the newcomer might really be able to compete with supermodels.

This is human nature. Is there any supermodel who is a supermodel as soon as he debuts?Is there anyone who has not climbed from a low place to achieve today's achievements?Everyone will have a jerky period, and the length is different. The jerky period passed by the great god, and it seems that there is no such thing as a supermodel. This is the difference between a supermodel and an ordinary model.

So, now ask them to believe how well a rookie can perform in the raw period?

Not to mention anything else, let’s just talk about Valentino, who took the lead, has announced the list of models for the catwalk earlier, including Huika Zhimaman (RaquelZimmermann Sesame Sister), Anja Rubik (AnjaRubik), Eugenia Volodina (Eugenia Volodina, Empress Eugene), and-the legendary supermodel Naomi Campbell, who has long been a god!

Who can walk better than "Taiwan textbook" Naomi Campbell?Although the steps of the gods have their own styles and cannot be compared with each other, Naomi is definitely the top group of the gods, which is recognized.

Basically, with her present, no one can hold back this black pearl!

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Half an hour before the start of the big show, guests entered the venue one after another. The reporters who were unable to enter the venue because they had not received an invitation set up their cameras outside the door, and took pictures of every important person who came to the show.

Tickets for haute couture fashion shows are hard to come by, and even if you have money, you can’t buy them, because brands are very strict in the distribution of invitations, about 40% of which are given to fashion media to promote their brands and strive for maximum exposure, and 30% to Fashion buyers, the largest customer of the brand, 10% to star guests, 10% to the top VIP of the brand, and the remaining 10% as reserve tickets to facilitate distribution according to the situation, designers themselves will also take some invitation letters for themselves friend.

In recent years, there has been a trend in the fashion industry, that is, more and more brands will invite influential and high-traffic fashion bloggers to watch the show.

With the popularity of computers, blogs have become popular among the public. Like Facebook, a social networking site launched last year, the number of users is growing at a crazy rate. Websites and software that others interact with, including MSN and ICQ, so various blogs are becoming more and more popular.

Writers of fashion blogs can update in real time, which has an advantage in speed compared to fashion weekly and monthly magazines with longer cycles.

The seating arrangements for fashion shows are not made up; they are a diplomatic exercise.For a brand, they value three types of people the most: fashion editors, buyers and celebrities.

The first row of seats is reserved for important guests, such as the "Devil of Fashion" Anna Wintour, who is regarded as a must by all brands including Blue Blood, the most influential figure in the fashion industry today For one, they were even willing to postpone the start of the big show just to wait for her arrival.

Therefore, fashion shows are rarely ready to start, and a delay of 10 to [-] minutes is quite normal.

Anna Wintour has a good sense of time, unless she is delayed by the previous show, she will not be late.However, when her good friend "Pirate Lord" John Galliano was the chief designer of Givenchy, his first Givenchy show caused a big show because "Lafayette" Karl Lagerfeld was 45 minutes late Delayed, the Pirate Lord actually said: "Since Karl Lagerfeld can be late for 45 minutes, then I will be late for an hour and a half."

As a result, the show was delayed for more than two hours. Those who arrived on time not only waited until the flowers were gone, but also affected the subsequent shows because of this show...

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As for the models, they arrived at the show three hours before the start of the big show to prepare. While applying makeup and hairstyle, they will be called to rehearsal on the way.The show director will explain to them the style and structure of the stage, as well as the process and so on.

It was inevitable that Letty was scrutinized by many people, accompanied by some not-so-quiet whispers.

"It's her...the newcomer..."

"The one who said he wanted to challenge the supermodel? Pretty is pretty, but too conceited..."

"Will Mr. Valentino regret letting her come to the catwalk? I think she will be blacklisted after this time?"

Letty's original words at the beginning were just "I will not be compared by anyone in the show", not to be compared, and I never said that I want to surpass or challenge.However, after the media's embellishment and other people's exaggeration, it became her "blatantly calling out the supermodels".Helplessness is helplessness, but it is also expected.

Although most people have never seen what Letty looks like, but as a fresh face, her identity is ready to be revealed, and no other models dare to approach her, as if they are afraid that if they are not careful, they will be killed. Being implicated, no one on the cusp is willing to take that risk.

There are generally [-] to [-] sets of looks in a fashion show, and as many as [-] sets. However, due to cost issues, there are only about [-] to [-] sets of looks in a high-end fashion show, focusing on quality rather than quantity.

So not counting repeated appearances, that is, models with two sets of looks, about [-] models will be invited for a haute couture show.Only supermodels or the designer's favorite models would be divided into two looks, and she didn't even think about it.

The backstage was full of people. In addition to the models and staff, there were also fashion reporters and photographers who were allowed to come in. Some brands specially invited backstage photographers to take pictures of the models’ styles for use in the style manuals, and some brands Make a film to record the preparation process of a show, as a behind-the-scenes tidbit.

Originally, an unknown newcomer like Letty should not be assigned to the camera, but now many people have heard of her "deeds", and for the first time, a reporter took the initiative to interview her.

The reporter must be from the United States, because he spoke American English, and asked unceremoniously when he arrived: "Are you ready to 'overwhelm the supermodel'?"

As soon as the words came out, the people nearby couldn't help laughing. Maybe some of them didn't mean it, but just a subconscious reaction.

They looked at the dark-haired beauty to see how she would respond, and saw that she didn't show any shame, and kept still for the hairstylist to help her style her hair. Her smokey gray eyes squinted and asked questions. reporter.

She gave an ambiguous reply: "I'll do my best."

If you want to be arrogant, you have already been arrogant, and you should restrain yourself when it is time to restrain yourself. It is no good to offend too many people. She will still be in the fashion industry in the future. I don't want everyone's impression of her to be nailed to this.

Everyone left after laughing, and after the reporter left, someone came to her after a while, but this time she was cheered up and woke up twelve times.

The crowd that dispersed just now has the momentum to reunite because of this person, the reason is very simple, because that person is Naomi Campbell.

They stared at this side curiously and gossiping. Could it be that they couldn't even look at her, and they were finally going to deal with the newcomer?

The black female model with long black hair directly pulled a chair from the side and sat down. This chair used to be used by a make-up artist at the next table to rest, but now she was pulled away without saying a word. He complained. There was no need to complain, so I had to stand aggrieved.

Because Naomi doesn't like people sitting and she wants to talk to them standing.

At first, Letty also thought that the supermodel was here to show her off, but she quickly vetoed it—what was the identity of the other party and what was her identity?Do you want to put down your body to find her?To be honest, Naomi is not so free.

Well there's only one reason, and that's Martin.

Her agent never mentioned to her what happened between him and Naomi that led to the need to terminate the contract, and it is not clear what the relationship between the two is now. Letty can't help worrying whether they are already Fall out, and Naomi hates her because of Martin?

However, the tit-for-tat confrontation she imagined didn't happen, Heizhu sat down, crossed her legs gracefully, folded her hands on her thighs, and asked her proactively: "You are the incumbent of Martin, is he okay? "

Before Letty could speak, Naomi continued on her own, "I thought he was going to quit this circle, but I didn't expect to sign a newcomer after so many years."

Naomi's aura was too strong, Letty was completely suppressed by her.

Not to mention her now, even in her previous life, her status is still far from that of the "Black Pearl". This is not Amanda or No.15's little famous young models, but a genuine She is a supermodel, she has watched her videos countless times to practice stepping, and comparing her stepping skills with her, Letty is still very worried.

Thinking of what she once told her former manager to surpass her, and now that the deity appeared, Letty suddenly realized that she still had a long way to go.

She took a deep breath, then looked into the eyes of the legendary supermodel through the mirror, and said without changing expression: "He is very good, he has always loved this circle."

"That's all his idea, right?" Naomi threw out a seemingly irrelevant sentence, and looked at the Latina girl in the mirror with sharp eyes, "He really has confidence in you."

Letty understood what she was referring to, but didn't react for a while.

She actually guessed that it was Martin's idea?But when she thought about it carefully, she had worked with Martin for so many years, so she was probably very familiar with his character. Moreover, Naomi and him might have used similar methods before.

Really confident?Letty muttered inwardly, this sounds like nothing, but when it comes to the fact that they both used to follow the same agent, it becomes extremely meaningful.

"It was our idea." As she said, she rolled her eyes and looked away from the mirror. She turned her head slightly and met the black female model's eyes directly for the first time. She pursed her lips and said stubbornly: "I'm not your substitute."

Black Pearl smiled: "You are not qualified to be my substitute."

Letty clenched her fist, but did not refute.

Yes, the status difference between the two parties is too great, she is not even qualified to give Naomi a skirt now.

To climb to the position of the opponent requires not only strength, but also opportunities, and she is standing at the foot of the mountain, looking up at Naomi on the top of the mountain.

"Play well, girl." Naomi stood up, gave her a condescending glance, then turned and left domineeringly and neatly, "Treasure your debut, this is my advice."

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Moving the screen to the front desk, the guests began to take their seats. The seats were two-thirds full, and the most conspicuous position in the front row was Anna Wintour, the witch with a curly bob. Suzy Menkes, fashion editor at the International Herald Tribune, contributor to The New York Times, and Vogue.com.

When the seats were almost full and all the important guests had arrived, the show director decided not to procrastinate, and shouted through the paging voice: "Everyone take your seats—Lightout! Musicin!"

As soon as the voice fell, the backstage director replied "received", the lights at the front desk slowly dimmed, the music started, and the guests realized that the fashion show was about to start, so they stopped talking and stared at the runway intently.

The theme of Valentino's 2005 spring and summer haute couture series is "Around the world in 37 looks". As the name suggests, there are 37 looks in total, each of which represents a city in the world and integrates the local style into the design.

Taking inspiration from the city or country, Valentino is not the first, nor will it be the last, but he has sublimated the urban style to another level, adding the luxury features of Valentino, and taking you on a luxurious tour with clothing world tour.

The opening model was inspired by Seville, a city in Spain. It combines the formal wear of professional women with the artistic features of southern Spain. The geometric lines of the coat and skirt are eye-catching.

The second model to appear on the stage is the German-born Brazilian supermodel Huika Zimaman, who represents Los Angeles. The blonde beauty is wearing a tube top black dress and elbow-length gloves. Light, stepping into the eyes of everyone with seductive steps, is like a Hollywood beauty walking out of a movie, elegant and noble.

Next up is the brunette beauty Eugenia Volodina, a Russian model who of course represents Moscow, the capital of Russia, as she walks in her signature nail step in pointed high heels as her thighs lift The height of the model is relatively high, the hem of the coat on the body is constantly swinging from side to side with the pace, and the gauze skirt underneath can be seen faintly, which is more domineering than the previous model, and the expression is indifferent but intimidating, just like a queen on tour .

Leti in the backstage saw that the line in front was getting shorter and shorter, and there were less than three to reach her, so she closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

The steps of the models who appeared in front of the stage were all above average, and any one who was pulled out was experienced in many battles, which invisibly caused pressure on her.

Her heart was beating violently, as if it was about to burst out of her chest, and she could almost feel the expansion and contraction of her blood vessels.

puff- puff-

The noises around her seemed to have disappeared, only the sound of her own heartbeat echoed in her ears, encouraging and powerful, the scene of people coming and going in the backstage faded in her eyes, and only the passage through the runway was left in front of her eyes.

She has gone through countless shows, but this is her first haute couture show, and now she is about to step on the stage that she has dreamed of for the past seven years.

This is a battle that cannot be lost, because she has staked everything on it, winning or losing.

"Leticia, get ready—Go!"

When she opened her eyes again, her eyes had been transformed, like a phoenix spreading its wings proudly in Nirvana. She took the first step and stepped on the runway, just like stepping on her stage.