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Chapter 161 Star Making (Subscription Request)

Wu Feng didn't know that his action of encouraging Young Master Lin to enter the fashion circle almost made Young Master Lin envious and jealous to the point of breaking down.

If I knew, I would definitely increase my efforts.

As for why this is the case, it is due to a Hong Kong entertainment novel I read in my previous life!
That novel is the story of a wealthy young man conquering the fashion and entertainment circles.

Why is it a rich young man?

Because rich young men have extensive connections, and mainly they know a lot of rich people.

At least there are people who support the fashionable luxury goods they create, right?

If the design and production are really good, the market can be opened up in no time!

In this regard, Young Master Lin obviously has more advantages!

Moreover, the definition of luxury goods in the fashion circle is now entirely in the hands of Europe and the United States.

Even if Wu Feng wanted to make trouble, he would face a lot of resistance.

It’s not that I’m afraid, but it consumes too much energy and time, and my other careers will definitely be affected.

The reason why I encouraged Young Master Lin was that when I was entertaining this guy privately, he actually said that he had a lot of free time recently, and it was the product of a sudden inspiration.

Start with high-end fashion apparel, and after Mr. Lin has tasted the sweetness, encourage him to enter the deeper and more murky watch industry.

In this regard, Pan Sheng of Debao is a positive example!
However, Wu Feng looked down on him. This guy was just an agent, or to put it bluntly, buying and doing.

At the peak of his career, with the help of D&B Films' publicity, his net worth reached over 3 billion.

From the perspective of future generations, this guy was definitely the pioneer of European and American luxury brands in exploring the mainland market.

In fact, because the mainland market is far from the harvest period, European and American luxury brands are in a state of mourning at this time.

A casual investigation shows that, apart from Rolex, which is very famous in Hong Kong Island, the rest of the watch brands are operating quite mediocrely and cannot cause much waves at all.

What about Longines and Vacheron Constantin? Their fame is several orders of magnitude lower than that of later generations!

When it comes to hating the easy life, Europe's old watch companies are definitely more hateful than the United States.

There is no other reason. Xiao Rizi invented the quartz watch and, through its strong publicity, directly defined the quartz watch as a new fashion trend.

That’s right, quartz watches in the 1980s and 1990s were the mainstream of the world’s watch brands.

Through a strong publicity campaign and various exquisite quartz watches, the old European mechanical watch companies were directly beaten to death. As a result, there were too many watch manufacturing companies in Switzerland that went bankrupt or were about to go bankrupt.

There is no overly detailed data, but according to the description in the novel, before the mainland's economy began to take off, it was definitely the best time to buy mechanical watches at a low price.

More than one novel has mentioned that Hong Kong's watch manufacturing industry was quite developed at that time, and was not much worse than the much-vaunted Swiss watch manufacturing industry. Unfortunately, it had always been mainly based on OEM.

As for whether this is true or not, Wu Feng will naturally know when Young Master Lin delves deeper into the watch industry.

At this time, we will start with an urban fashion TV series with a fashion designer as the protagonist.

The Lin family is a big name in the clothing industry and has a lot of real materials to collect.

What Wu Feng provided was the melodramatic plot that appeared in related female novels in later generations, which was absolutely wonderful.

Those melodramatic plots that have become commonplace in later generations can still attract many fans, not to mention the current audiences of Hong Kong TV dramas, who will definitely be fascinated by them.

There is also "Meteor Garden" and many high-quality Korean and Taiwanese dramas waiting.

Wu Feng had read a lot of Hong Kong entertainment novels in his previous life, but he actually had a question in his mind.

With Hong Kong Island's economic size and the film and television craze of the 1980s and 1990s, it is easy to establish a brand as a fashionable and trendy urban city. At least it is not difficult to do so in Asia.

To exaggerate a bit, although Hong Kong has a developed economy, if we really talk about the city's fame, Hong Kong Island in the late 1980s and early 1990s was more famous than Hong Kong's capital.

Unfortunately, Hong Kong Island is still only famous for its finance and real estate in later generations!

Perhaps for some other reason, Young Master Lin was very interested in establishing a fashion magazine and a small film and television company, and he quickly completed all the formalities.

Then he started recruiting people and became a big name in the entertainment industry.

Especially when recruiting beautiful actresses, this guy must personally attend the interview.

Everyone knows that there is a big player joining the entertainment industry again, and all the beautiful female stars who are interested are very proactive in getting to know Mr. Lin.

This guy was so happy that he didn't want to leave and spent all day hanging around the front page or the sub-page of entertainment newspapers.

If it weren't for his trading company, there would really be no need for him to be in charge all the time. It would have been on the right track with relatively mature processes, and I'm afraid the main business would have been affected.

It was said, just said, that Young Master Lin had been quite upset. He had a stern face at the group company the whole day and his temper flared up easily, causing quite a stir.

Wu Feng will just pay attention to it for a while and let ATV take care of the subsequent matters.

In fact, all the staff of Mr. Lin’s so-called small film and television company, except for the female artists, are composed of a working group dispatched by ATV’s TV drama department.

At this time, Young Master Lin was wealthy and powerful, and his thoughts were temporarily focused on various beautiful women. As for how the TV series would turn out, he didn't care much at the moment. Of course, with Wu Feng's guidance and the supervision of ATV's senior management, the TV series would definitely not fail.

Only when I can help Young Master Lin truly establish a fashion and luxury brand will he really take it seriously.

And under Wu Feng's guidance, he stepped into the high-end luxury field step by step and stirred up trouble!
Just as the protagonist of that Hong Kong entertainment novel said, when there are more rich people in the mainland and it becomes the largest consumer of high-end luxury brands in the world, that will be his time to make a fortune.

Instead of letting Europeans and Americans make the hundreds of billions of dollars every year, it would be better for this young man from Hong Kong to make the lion's share!

Of course, it is too early to say these things now. We should develop step by step first.

The hottest topic in Hong Kong Island at the moment is naturally the "Unlimited Fighting Tournament" launched by ATV!
Now that the competition has entered the main competition stage, the players are playing more excitingly and fiercely, and the audience is naturally more enthusiastic in supporting them. The peripheral products of some star players are selling very well.

For example, He Yong from Eastern Star, Big Head from Hongxing, and world champion Chow Billy, etc.

It is currently the coldest time of the year in Hong Kong Island, and pedestrians on the street are wearing long-sleeved jackets.

But this year, most of the young people walking on the streets are wearing casual sportswear.

And these casual sportswear are also quite distinctive.

Some of them have an upright fist image on the back, a golden belt wrapped around the forearm, and below are three large characters "Chow Billy" in both Chinese and English, which are particularly eye-catching.

Some are Big Head’s portrait, with a close-up of Big Head’s name in both Chinese and English below.

Of course, there are also sportswear with He Yong’s portrait on it. In short, the streets of Hong Kong Island seem to have suddenly added a lot of sports elements, which feels quite wonderful.

It was Zhang Yong, Wu Feng's red stick who was really good at handling things. This guy bought hundreds of sets of casual sportswear with big head portraits printed on them at one go and distributed them directly to all his subordinates as New Year's benefits.

He also asked his younger brothers that as long as the sportswear was not worn out and had no obvious dirt or odor, they must wear it every day to support their own brothers in Hongxing.

It was just a matter of tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars. The income he earned from betting on Datou was much more than that.

But this move was incredible, making Datou the most handsome among all the contestants for a while.

There is no other reason. Since Zhang Yong has taken action, how could Li Xin and Wang Zhi remain indifferent?

Then, Wu Feng was passively involved. Naturally, the year-end benefits distributed to all his employees included a set of casual sportswear with a big head portrait as the logo.

Ahem, including his subordinates and other company employees, the number easily exceeded 3,000.

In particular, many people working in the film and television industry, especially famous stars like Liang Xiaolong and Li Saifeng, occasionally wear it when traveling, so the influence is too great.

Then, the other Hongxing gangs followed suit, as if they would be sorry for their brothers if they didn't do so.

Hongxing has at least five to six thousand core brothers, plus peripheral members totaling over one hundred thousand.

Among them, 10% wore casual sportswear with large head portraits, which could easily create a sensation in Hong Kong Island.

In fact, this proportion has exceeded 30%!
There's no other way. Even Sijiu and the other thugs are dressed like this. Should the other Blue Lanterns who want to "progress" follow suit?
This was explained by the leader Jiang Tiansheng. Everything should be based on the principle of voluntariness, otherwise it would only be more exaggerated.

Yet, even so, the Hongxing brothers alone bought more than 30,000 sets of casual sportswear with big head portraits on them.

A set costs more than two hundred yuan, and after deducting various costs, the profit is enough to be one hundred and fifty yuan.

Wu Feng was also generous and directly gave Datou a share of 50% of the portrait fee.

In other words, the big-head casual sportswear purchased by the Hongxing brothers alone brought him more than 1.5 million in profits.

When the news came out, the whole Hongxing was in an uproar.

Then came the Eastern Star, and then the whole of Hong Kong Island was in a sensation.

Damn, do you have to be so exaggerated?

It’s just a share of the profits from a set of sportswear, but Big Head, a star athlete, can actually get a share of 1.5 million?

The sports section of "Mong Kok News" immediately followed up. After detailed investigation and analysis by reporters, it was found that 1.5 million was only the share provided by the Hung Hing brothers.

The number of units purchased by other young people in Hong Kong Island will not be less than 30,000!
In other words, just from a set of casual sportswear with his portrait printed on it, as a star player, he can get a share of at least three million in profits!
Once the newspaper was announced, 150,000 copies were distributed for free that day.

Big Head Yang Tian’s fame is rapidly rising in Hong Kong Island, and he has become a veritable fighting star!
Now, even the prince was jealous.

At the next headquarters meeting, he couldn't help but say to Wu Feng, "If I had known there was so much money to be made in the competition, I would have participated no matter what. Datou is really famous now!"

"Haha, isn't it because of the support from the brothers in the club?"

Wu Feng laughed heartily and said leisurely, "Speaking of which, Prince, those three players under your command who participated in the competition are quite famous, right? They must have made some money, right?"

"Well, including selling posters, postcards, dolls, toys, key chains and other things, the total profit per person is less than 200,000!"

The prince waved his hands, as if he was very dissatisfied with this.

But when you talk, don't lift the corners of your mouth so high, or I will believe your lies.

Wu Feng and a group of regional leaders were speechless and wanted to give the prince a middle finger to express their respect.

(End of this chapter)