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

When the two first met, Versace's design director gave Letty a hug.

"Girl, I have already left a deep impression on you during the autumn and winter fashion week." Donatella spoke English with a thick Italian accent, her voice hoarse due to years of smoking habits, "Trouble you, you have come all the way from New York to Milan."

Letty hugged her back, and said in a relaxed tone: "Why bother? Hearing that you summoned me personally, I almost packed up and sent me to Milan immediately."

Donatella was amused by her, "Today I will try on some looks on you, are you ready?"

Letty nodded and smiled: "Isn't that exactly the purpose of my coming here today?"

The clothes Donatella tried on for Letty were all semi-finished products, and some of them were not even semi-finished products. Her job today was to act as a Barbie doll for Donatella and let her try all kinds of looks on herself.

The female designer stroked her chin and pondered for a while before she said, "Leeticia, how about taking a step and showing me?"

Letty nodded, and then showed a step.

As soon as she took a few steps, Donatella stared at her intently, and sat down, drawing something on her draft paper, looked up at her from time to time, then lowered her head and continued to draw.

Donatella suddenly remembered something and asked, "Have you ever taken a photo with a snake before?"

"Yes, that's the back cover of the American version of Harper's Bazaar."

She paused at the tip of her pen and smiled, "Sure enough...that's a very good photo."

Donatella asked because she thought of an animal when she saw Letty walk.

The brunette was wearing a sheer black body-fitting dress, made of satin, the surface looked smooth and soft, with only a preliminary shape, because she hadn't had time to add anything to the skirt—or rather, she didn't know how to do it.

Letty twisted like a snake when she walked, and her body was incredibly soft, so when she swayed her waist and hips, she looked very smooth and comfortable, without "kacking", with a vague temptation.

But soft and full of strength at the same time, the muscle lines on her body are so beautiful, strong and powerful, and the honey-colored skin looks sexy and wild, which are two extremes of the morbid beauty of Kate Moss.

A dozen snake-related designs instantly popped up in her mind, and Donatella quickly drew these vague concepts on the draft paper. Her legs are beautifully shaped, and maybe she can have a fork... The tailoring requires Make it a little tighter so that it can accentuate her figure...

After recovering from her senses, Donatella had already drawn different shapes on one piece of paper after another, and Letty also walked back and forth for more than a dozen steps because she didn't stop, until Female designer put down her pen.

Seeing that she was still immersed in her own world, Leti was too embarrassed to disturb her.

Donatella felt enlightened after a long absence. She was tired of the feeling of holding a pen but being unable to draw anything, especially as the days passed by and the autumn and winter fashion week was getting closer and closer, and her pressure was also increasing. It was getting bigger and bigger, almost overwhelming her.

But looking at these gradually perfected design drawings, Donatella hesitated again.

Because Letty's style wasn't Gianni's style.

Kate Moss is one of Janney's favorite models, and he considers her the true "timeless woman" who best embodies the seductive beauty of a woman in his mind.

Kate Moss is thin and thin. She is a standard size 0 model. She is fragile on the rooftop, her skin is always pale, and her eyes are blurred that people can't catch.

The girl in front of him was completely different from Kate Moss.

Kate Moss is a typical HF face, what exactly is a "HF face"?In short, it is plasticity.

The difference between HF and business depends on the difference of consumers. HF’s service target is not the general public, they don’t care about the aesthetics of the public. HF’s consumers are all groups with higher age and income. The role of models is Showing the charm of the product, as a symbol of highlighting the class to which the brand belongs, is commonly known as "high quality".

Since the HF brand does not need to please the general public, the selection of models must be based on the most prominent brand style and the designer's own preferences. Professional skills such as walking and taking hard photos are more important than faces, so ordinary people naturally It is difficult to get their beauty, and most of the HF models have flat chests for this reason.

Commercial models are more "down-to-earth". The consumers of commercial brands such as Victoria's Secret are the general public. Their purpose is to please the public and let them pay for them obediently. The models they choose are sweet or sexy models that are more acceptable to the public. .

HF models usually only accept HF endorsements, but business models can receive a large number of endorsements. They can endorse anything, from cosmetics to daily necessities, from jewelry to clothes. The purpose of businessmen to find spokespersons is to sell more products and attract In the eyes of consumers, should you use HF models or commercial models?The answer is obvious.The more you tend to use daily necessities, the more you will use the most popular business models to endorse.

To use a specific metaphor, an HF model is like an unpolished rough stone, waiting for designers to develop it into an ideal shape, while a commercial model is a polished diamond that can attract the most attention.

For the designers of HF, of course, it is the original stone that allows them to play better, and they can express their ideas through makeup and hair styling.

But for ordinary people, they naturally prefer sparkling diamonds.

Why do we usually think Hollywood stars on TV are beautiful?Because they are polished diamonds.

From the point of view of Victoria’s Secret’s signing angels, Gisele and KK are determined to be HF models, Heidi, Tyra, AA, and Lima are commercial, and they can already see a big difference from their appearance—— Before she became popular, Gisele was said to look like a man, her nose was too big, and KK's mouth was said to be too wide, but what they have in common is their excellent steps and temperament.

The reason why Victoria's Secret chooses HF supermodel is very simple, that can enhance their own style.

Heidi and others are more plump, and their appearance conforms to the public's aesthetics. They may be sexy or sweet, but their steps are generally not as good as HF models.

In fact, Letty's appearance is not HF, and her plasticity is not high.

In terms of appearance alone, she should be classified as a business model like Heidi. Anyone who sees her at first glance will think she is a great beauty, so Ed Lasak said that her commercial value is high .

Her style is engraved in the bones, no matter how you shape it, you can't erase this temperament, so the plasticity is naturally not very high.

But her steps and expressiveness are far beyond the level of a business model, and her professional ability is no worse than that of a HF supermodel, so she is caught between the two.

When she endorsed LV and Marc Jacobs, there were many voices of doubt in the fashion industry, saying that her appearance was not HF enough, which would lower the style of LV.

It’s no secret that HF ​​circles don’t like business models very much. There is a saying in the fashion industry that if your professional skills are not particularly good, you may lose HF’s job after leaving Victoria’s Secret, but fortunately she Her steps were recognized, and people called her the next "step textbook"!

So she and Natasha, two newcomers who have debuted for a year, dare to go to Victoria's Secret. Their steps are the capital for them to gain a foothold in HF!

That's what makes Letty attractive.It is also because she has the living conditions in both HF and business fields that Martin signed her in the first place.

This kind of trait can be her burden, making her caught in the awkward position of being stuck between the two, saying that HF ​​is not enough for HF, and talking about business, she does not want to become a purely commercial model.

However, looking at it from another angle, this also allows her to switch freely between the two fields. In HF, she can stabilize her position with steps, and she will not lose in face and body comparisons with business models... What does this mean?She can be the most profitable HF model, and she can also be the most stylish business model!

She will be the most unique existence in the fashion industry!

Looking at the design drawings based on Letty on the table, Donatella's eyes gradually became firm.

In the past few years, will she be criticized less?She finally got rid of her drug addiction and got back on track. Even if others think she made a wrong decision, she will prove to them that she is right!

Donatella quickly wrote a few words on the drawing and circled them - serpenteebellezza.

Let's use "Snake and Beauty" as the theme of this autumn and winter series!

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When Letty came to Donatella's studio the next day, the dress she tried on yesterday had changed.

The overall tailoring is more close-fitting, but the biggest change is a thigh-high fork on the left side, but the shape of the fork looks a bit strange and irregular.

Donatella smiled and said to Mimi, "Put it on and have a look."

Letty changed into a skirt on the spot, and only after she put it on did she realize that there was a mystery behind that high fork!

When the skirt was lifted up, the irregular slit showed its original wavy shape. She tried to walk a few steps, and there was a new surprise. As she walked, the slit also swayed, It looks like a crawling snake from a distance!

Seeing the novelty on Letty's face, Donatella showed a satisfied smile on her tired face.

In order to create this effect, she spent a lot of hard work. The width and radian of the fork are based on textual research. Taking into account the softness of Letty's steps, the width of the fork is relatively large. If it is a sonorous and powerful step It should be smaller, because when the model walks hard, the skirt will be thrown up, and the shaking will be larger. If the slit is too large, the original shape will be destroyed, and the same effect cannot be achieved.

Letty walked with soft steps, so there was no such problem, so Donatella made the slit wider, so that her smooth legs could be faintly exposed when she walked, and the looming scenery added a touch of temptation.

Letty has been coming and going in and out of Donatella's studio in the past few days, and of course this matter cannot be hidden from the Italian reporters.

In fact, they also know that Donatella Versace, the artistic director of Versace, is looking for a fitting model recently, and all the models who go to the fitting can't hide from their eyes, but the female models come and go one after another, never One can stay here for two days.

So when Letty left the studio on her first day, the paparazzi were left guessing—ah, who's coming tomorrow?

So when they saw the black-haired girl the next day, they were all excited.

Even in Italy, Letty's reputation is not small, not to mention the reporters in charge of the fashion page, why don't they know this rising star who has risen at an incredible speed?

Until Letty came to the studio to report for duty for three consecutive days, which further confirmed the speculation of the reporters.

——Could she be the fitting model chosen by Donatella? !Or rather, the muse? !

In order to find the answer, they stopped Letty at the door and asked her, "May I ask, are you assisting Donatella Versace in preparing for the autumn and winter fashion week?"

The black-haired girl smiled flawlessly, and deliberately said vaguely: "She needs me, so I'll stay."

Not getting the desired answer from Letty, they shifted their target to Donatella, and one afternoon they waited until Donatella, who was going home, appeared.

Asked if Leticia was her muse, the well-breathed female designer said: "Me and Leticia are working very well, we are both working hard to get ready for the autumn and winter fashion week."

The next day, the fashion section of Corriere della Sera, one of Italy's largest national dailies, ran the report: "Is Leticia Lopez the muse of Donatella Versace?"

Just as the outside world was speculating whether she was Versace's new muse, Letty, who finished her day's work and returned to the hotel to take a shower, happened to receive a call from Martin.

She thought Martin was here to ask her if work was going well, but as soon as she pressed the answer button, the man yelled.

"Letty, you need—no, you have to go to Paris after finishing your work in Milan!" Martin's voice was clearly excited, "Here we come! Your first cover of the top four "VOGUE" is here!! "