Rebirth of the Fashion King

Chapter 65: Couldn't you have blocked him just once?

Let's go back to the day Li Xun left the seminar.

Virginia Wiard watched Li Xun's departing figure. The door closed for a moment, then he turned around.

Looking at Karl Lagerfeld, he couldn't help but ask.

"Can't you just stop Rhine this once?"

The Empress Dowager leaned back in her chair, her face expressionless.

"What am I blocking?"

"Design, plans, or show concepts, anything is fine. You've been nitpicking for over thirty years, I don't believe you can't find a single flaw."

The old lady could tell that Virginie's words carried a hint of blame.

"I didn't choose."

Why?

The old lady didn't answer his question, but instead asked him, "You prepared the confidentiality agreement days ago?"

"Yes."

"So, you expected Rhine to come up with something like this."

Virginie nodded.

"I've always trusted Rhine, and I know him very well, as do you."

"So you made preparations in advance."

"I've been preparing for this for years. From the day we brought him into Chanel, I knew this day would come. I just didn't know exactly when."

Karl Lagerfeld fell silent upon hearing this.

"So, are you going to teach me a lesson today? What a right decision it was to hire him!"

"No, I just want to tell you that we should have been prepared from the very first year that when he was twenty years old, he could produce phenomenal works, so it's not surprising that he can now hold ready-to-wear shows."

You've been talking a lot today.

"I'm just in a bad mood today."

"I see, but we can't be that selfish, Virginia. I did have that thought you mentioned, and Rhine certainly won't blame me, but we can't do this, because even if I put on this show, I can't do it any better than him —"

The old lady said earnestly, "Alright, let's go. We shouldn't make things difficult for Rhine."

Virginia composed herself and nodded vigorously.

"Should we tell Mr. Alan about this? After all, it's such a big deal—"

Karl Lagerfeld quickly shook his head: "No need, with me overseeing things, there's no way anything will go wrong. Besides, if Alan knew about this, he definitely wouldn't be able to wait—"

  

"That's true."

on Monday.

No. 31 Kangpeng Street.

Hi, Rhine.

Good morning, Jenny.

Good morning, Rhine.

"Hello there."

Have you forgotten my name?

Li Xun stopped in his tracks and looked at the familiar face.

"Lola?"

"Yes! You have a good memory, I only said it once."

Li Xun went up to the third floor, turned around, and walked into his office at the corner of the corridor.

He put his briefcase away, sat down, and turned on his computer. The email icon kept jumping around in the lower right corner of the screen. Before he could open the first email, footsteps came from the corridor.

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bang bang-

"Please come in."

Good morning, Rhine.

Virginia held a cup of coffee in one hand and a folder in the other, her expression exactly the same as always—calm, with a smile on her lips. Li Xun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.

Good morning, Ms. Virginia.

She took a sip of coffee, her eyes sweeping over Li Xun's desk.

"Have you tidied up what you had from last week?"

"I'm working on the runway design, but the second batch of sketches for the ready-to-wear will take some time."

Virginia Wiard smiled after hearing this, "No rush, there's plenty of time, but you have other things to do today."

"Um?

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"You need a design assistant and an administrative secretary. Your workload will be different from today. You can't draw at the same time, coordinate with the workshop, and schedule your own schedule. You don't have that ability, and neither does Mr. Karl. He needs Junker and me to help him with a lot of things."

"Furthermore, although you have assistants, you're using the studio's shared assistants, and these shared assistants are rotated. The person you're with this month might be transferred to the accessories group next month, and your workload will be..."

Li Xun covered his face with both hands.

This is actually quite a complicated matter, but Virginia is absolutely right!

The situation after the seminar was indeed extraordinary. Although Lagerfeld didn't announce anything publicly, in 2010...

He has been handed over the design leadership for the Fall/Winter ready-to-wear collection.

Dozens of ready-to-wear garments, a complete runway show plan, derivative jewelry collections, leather accessories—Li Xun is no longer a designer following in the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld and Virginie, but someone who has to lead his own team, make decisions, and coordinate with relevant departments. It's unlikely that he'll be doing this all by himself.

"I've already done a round of screening over the weekend." Virginie placed the folder in her hand on Li Xun's desk.

"Here are three design assistant candidates and two secretary candidates. Please conduct interviews with them today and let me know when the interviews are finalized."

Li Xun picked up the folder and opened it.

Five sheets of paper, five names, with their ages, education, and work experience listed.

"You screened all of this for me by yourself?"

"Of course not. I screened them together with HR. The initial screening was about 40 resumes, and we kept these five in the end."

"Thank you so much, but it would have been better if you had just picked it out for me directly."

Virginia took a sip of coffee.

"You're welcome. You can choose your own team. My opinion on whether it's suitable is irrelevant; it's up to you to decide if it's suitable."

Li Xun smiled and closed the folder.

"That's right. What time do the interviews start?"

"Ten o'clock, in the small conference room. I've already called them to let them know. The HR department will bring them over directly. You just need to sit there."

Virginia finished speaking and was about to leave when she stopped.

"By the way, remember one thing when choosing people: you're not looking for friends, you're looking for people who can work with you. You don't want—"

Li Xun raised his hand.

"I understand, I know, don't worry."

Virginia smiled and turned to leave.

Li Xun opened his computer's calendar, marked the time period from 10:00 to 12:00 in red, and then opened the unread email to start working.

Beep beep beep————

"Hey Katie, I saw the email you sent me. We don't have to work with the Italian supplier; the price is too high. We can use Yingfang's. Tell them that if we can't reach an agreement, we can just leave."

"Good morning, Garcia. This is haute couture, not ready-to-wear. Chanel haute couture shouldn't use the word 'almost,' okay?"

After hanging up the phone, Li Xun made a call to the perfume workshop.

Just to let you know in advance, in case I get busy and forget, his big show will require the release of a derivative perfume line.

However, Li Xun was not an expert in this field; he had some knowledge of it, but not much.

Actually, there's not much to say. For the perfume lines sold to Asia, the scent just doesn't need to be too strong. As for the European and American markets, they can have whatever they want.

"Good morning, Alice. This is Rhine. Is your master busy?"

"Good morning, he hasn't started yet, I'll call him over right away."

"Thanks."

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