Hollywood Hunter

New York, Bryant Park in Manhattan.

This is Saturday, February 26, the penultimate day of the 2000 Fall/Winter Fashion Week in New York. A new fashion brand named Skelton Lee (Skeltonlee) was backstage at the show. The show was about to start. When a certain news It came from the front desk, and there was a commotion here.

Here comes Simon Westeros.

The founder of the brand, Skelton Lee, quietly went to the front stage show to say hello to the big man, and thoroughly confirmed that it was not a rumor. A group of madou big and small in the backstage cheered up their spirits, and some people went to the dressing table to make up for it. Some people want to change clothes temporarily, and some people can't help but want to go directly to the front desk to contact someone, but unfortunately they were stopped by the Weijia bodyguard team who temporarily took over the security of the show, and they returned in dismay.

Skelton Lee is a tall and beautiful Asian girl. She is 33 years old and was born in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Royal College of Art. After working hard in New York, she created her own fashion business five years ago. room.

Because the personal design concept integrates traditional oriental culture and modern western art, just in recent years, there has been a Chinese craze in Europe and the United States, and the brand has taken advantage of the momentum, and was acquired by the current fashion industry giant Melisandre Group last year.

However, if Melisandre's Gucci, Bulgari and other brands are regarded as "aircraft carriers", the little Skelton Lee can only be regarded as a small one with less than a thousand tons of drainage in the fashion giant system. Gunboat, Skelton never expected that the well-known big shot behind Melisandre would come to watch his brand show.

Seeing backstage, except for a few supermodels who are more or less calm, everyone else is eager to try, and listening to some personal gossip and other discussions about a certain big man whispered in his ears, Skelton Lee can't help but look forward to it.

In this enthusiastic atmosphere, the time came to 4:15 in the afternoon, the music started, and the catwalk officially started.

Standing at the exit of the backstage to complete the final inspection in person, seeing the fashion circle'Audrey Hepburn' Paulina Priskova who was in charge of the opening stage, Skelton quickly turned to Angela Lindelwald, who was ranked second , but I was uneasy in my heart, wondering if that big shot would like my design.

As we all know, Simon Westeros is very interested in Chinese culture. However, in order to better fit the popular aesthetics of the West, Skelton's design this year further compressed the oriental elements.

Skelton Lee is a very realistic girl. She thinks that Westerners' interest in oriental culture cannot be too long and too deep. If you want your own brand to grow, you still have to do as the Romans do.

For example, the cheongsam elements that she liked to use in her original designs were well received. However, the reality is that Western women with generally large skeletons are not suitable for cheongsams.

So worrying about gains and losses, some fantasies are unavoidable.

If maybe one day in the future, my own brand can be like ck, renting a large manor in Long Island for the show, and the models in charge of the show are all big names. Instead of being like this now, you can still hold a catwalk in a tent in Bryant Park with many small brands.

I just don't know if the big man after the show will invite her, and if she should go to the appointment, or if Westeros wants to go further and maintain a long-term relationship, how should I deal with my own good family and A high-level boyfriend at Citigroup.

Fortunately, the other party went to London for a business trip this time.

The front hall of the show.

The guests on both sides of the runway obviously felt that the models on the stage were a bit inclined, but they were not surprised. Everyone already knew that someone important was sitting somewhere in the guest seats, and, even they themselves, were thinking about how to talk to Simon Westeros later.

After all, it is a small brand. Even if Melisandre takes over it, it is not considered as a key support target, and the guest lineup can be imagined.

After Simon entered the venue, the only person he could recognize was Sarah Jessica Parker, the heroine of Sex and the City. Sophia had introduced Simon in advance. The Skelton Lee brand is mainly aimed at urban women, so this TV star who fits the style of the brand obviously It belongs to the kind of spending money to invite people to support the scene.

At the beginning of the catwalk, there were three or four models on the catwalk that Simon could name, including Paulina Priskova and Angela Lindelwald.

Of course, since it's just for fun, it doesn't matter.

After watching the rocket launch of the Falcon 9 yesterday, Simon spent the night in Florida and flew to New York this morning.

I decided to take a break on the weekend and picked a show at random to watch.

In the last row on the left side of the show catwalk, Simon sat in a corner, next to Grace Crepp.

Originally, Sophia Fisher also said that she would come together. In the morning, she received news that there was an urgent matter to be dealt with in Europe. Regarding the Hermès brand, which Melisandre had been stealing shares in recently, Sophia flew to France temporarily.

Over the years, the number of fashion, jewelry, watches, furniture, red wine and other brands owned by Melisandre has reached more than 80. For Skye, who is not even a "ship", he can only be called a "boat". Simon has not paid attention to the Skelton Lee brand before, so he does not know the design thinking of the founder Skelton Lee. The reason why he chose this small brand is indeed the oriental element in it.

Seeing the design style of the runway and Sophia's introduction that didn't quite match, his thoughts changed a little, and he probably understood the thoughts of the oriental girl who just came to say hello. However, there is no doubt about the talent of the other party. Even if the oriental elements are compressed, the fashion on the runway is still pleasing to the eye. Simon just appreciates it and has no intention of interfering in it.

Grace sticks to Simon, and Sophia's temporary itinerary makes her unexpectedly able to be alone with the little man, and she is very happy in her heart.

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Laizheng was enjoying the feeling of snuggling up beside him, while quietly admiring the really good fashion on the runway, when he saw an Asian model obviously trying to attract someone's attention, the shoulder strap 'accidentally' slipped off, directly revealing With half of her chest, she still couldn't help rolling her eyes.

It's so clumsy.

However, Grace still turned her head to Simon's ear: "It's not bad, I called you over tonight, it happens to be from my company."

Simon had a vague impression of that model. It seemed to be a girl who appeared in the elite world elite model competition the year before last. Hearing what Grace said, he smiled and turned his head slightly, and asked, "Japanese girl?"

"Well," Grace nodded, remembered, and said with a smile, "Why don't you like Japanese girls?"

Simon didn't joke about any reason, just said softly: "I don't like Japanese very much."

"That's not a problem," Grace said, "Let me tell them to speak English."

Simon subconsciously replaced some of the classic Japanese words in Ivy's short film into English, and still shook his head with a smile: "Forget it."

Grace looked very interested: "Then, let them not talk, is that okay?"

Simon couldn't help but imagine.

This, the theme night of Sakura Dumb Girls?

Um

Grace glanced at the man's expression, then understood, and said with a smile, "Then shall I arrange it for you?"

"Forget it this weekend," Simon said, "Take some time."

Grace notes.

The fifteen-minute catwalk ended quickly.

Simon didn't leave early, and waited for the curtain call here, and greeted the guest models in front of and behind the stage. Grace also specially called the Japanese model over to introduce her. The girl's name is Risa Kiyohara. She is 20 years old this year and has a petite face. , pure temperament, but has a height of 183cm.

However, thinking about the small act of dropping the shoulder straps on the catwalk, the girl's innocent appearance, which seems harmless to humans and animals, is obviously just a disguise.

Having said that, in the past year, the most high-end and hottest gossip in the fashion industry has not appeared in any media, but it has spread quite widely. It is that several big models got pregnant unexpectedly because of a super tycoon and gave birth to their children smoothly. things.

After all, among the six women, some of them could bear a low profile, while others inevitably wanted to show off. What's more, even though one of them gave birth to a child, something happened and almost caused trouble.

Not to mention these, it's just a woman who gave birth to a big man's child, all of them reach the sky in one step.

Step up to the sky!

Therefore, seeing a certain Japanese girl attract Simon Westero's special attention because of some very low-level tricks in the circle, the other models present greatly regretted it.

I knew it, I knew it

Unfortunately, this opportunity has been missed after all.

Simple and communicative, Simon rejected Paulina Priskova's express request to ask if she was free in the evening, declined Skelton Lee's suggestion to invite him to drink coffee, and ignored the small expression of "little fox" Angela Lindelwald's resentment , and of course there were more disappointing glances, but in the end they still left with Grace.

The time was approaching five o'clock in the afternoon, and there was Melisandre's New York Fashion Week official party in the evening, and she also planned to join in the excitement. Before that, it was dinner time.

The rare two-person world, back to the mansion on the top floor of the Westeros Building, Grace took Simon to cook together, which would be more atmospheric.

Simon didn't refuse either.

Both of them are the kind of people who rarely enter the kitchen, and it is more than enough to prepare a dinner.

After driving away other waitresses who wanted to help, Grace took out the ingredients from the refrigerator and planned to make a creamy mushroom soup, while she said to Simon who was processing a piece of beef: "I saw the news about your Rocket Company I'm curious, the recycling technology seems to be very powerful, but it doesn't seem to be very useful in reality?"

Simon sliced ​​the beef, took the seasoning next to it and began to marinate, and explained casually: "Take yesterday's Falcon 9 as an example. For rockets with the same load, other aerospace companies quoted around 100 million US dollars, while We can keep the cost within 50 million.”

Grace interrupted: "I've seen all this in the news, and I also know that if mature multiple recycling can be achieved, the cost of Falcon 9 can be reduced to less than 10 million or even 5 million, and it may even be possible in the future. Each launch only costs hundreds of thousands of dollars in fuel costs. The question is, on a global basis, does the world have so many rocket launch needs? Just like the federal space shuttle, which was originally designed to launch 30 times a year, it is now Not even three times a year?"

Listening to Grace's words, Simon realized that the woman had obviously done a lot of homework.

With a smile, Simon waited for Grace to finish speaking, and continued: "The space shuttle was marginalized, and the Challenger incident was a cause, but the key is the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the disappearance of the East-West confrontation pattern, the Federation and many other countries in the world I have lost the motivation to continue exploring space to pursue the limit of technology. I told you about this, the 3G plan is the continuation of the pursuit of the limit of technology. For the 3G plan, maybe I have my own selfish intentions, but if it can be successful, it will be beneficial to human beings. There must be great benefits. Otherwise, when the existing scientific and technological productivity cannot meet the continuous demand of human beings for resources, the world will only be reincarnated in the cycle of war, recovery, and war again as in the past thousands of years. and even the complete self-destruction of mankind."

Grace added water to the soup pot, turned it on, and started to clean the mushrooms that she had just taken out of the refrigerator. This time, she did not interrupt. She nodded and smiled: "Then, let's talk about rockets.

, when the cost of a heavy rocket launch drops to millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, what are you going to do? "

Simon didn't need to think about it, and quickly said: "I'm already planning. The first step is to build a space city first, the kind with a 10,000-ton class, instead of the 400-ton International Space Station in recent years."

Grace paused this time, obviously surprised, and glanced at the man next to her: "The International Space Station has a scale of 400 tons, and the budget is 50 billion U.S. dollars. Do you plan to spend 1 trillion U.S. dollars for a 10,000-ton space city?"

Simon shook his head: "The budget of the International Space Station of 50 billion US dollars is only the initial plan. According to the investment trend that has been officially implemented in the past two years, the next 100 billion US dollars may not be enough. However, the budget of the International Space Station, to be straightforward, has too much waste The gray area of ​​funding. Just like the heavy-duty Falcon 9 in our experiment, why does it cost hundreds of millions of dollars for other aerospace companies to launch a launch vehicle of the same size? Because there are too many stakeholders who want to suck blood from it, and I Here, just like spacex produces its own parts as much as possible, the planned space city, even if external procurement cannot be avoided, I will definitely not let thousands of suppliers around the world do it, but this can save a large part cost."

The construction cost of the International Space Station, in Simon's view, is the same as the military expenditure of the United States, which is too watery.

One of the most direct evidences is that China's space station used to have a set of data, which may not be accurate, but it is enough for comparison. The total cost of the International Space Station is 160 billion U.S. dollars, equivalent to about 1.2 trillion yuan. However, even if the design volume of China’s space station is only 60 tons, the cost of decades before and after is only about 50 billion yuan. Even if the follow-up operation and maintenance are added The cost, counting 100 billion, is still less than a fraction of the International Space Station.

why?

The key point is that there are too many stakeholders who pluck hairs and suck blood from the International Space Station.

And that's not even the worst.

Later, the situation further evolved into that NASA kept throwing money at it, and the contractors took the money, and they said they couldn't do it.

Need to add money!

As for spending more money, can things be done?

This can't be guaranteed. After all, scientific research is very risky.

In fact, to put it bluntly, various stakeholders are too lazy to cover up.

So the U.S. government had to hand over some projects to emerging private companies like spacex that can still do things.

In any case, Simon would not allow this to happen to his family.