Zhang Ran believes that as long as you have watched the opening ceremony of the Peking Olympics, you will not have any questions about using LEDs, but people from the creative team have never seen it. They don’t know what kind of visual experience the huge LEDs of more than 100 square meters will bring.

If there is any way to prove that LED can bring amazing effects to the world and even attract global attention, then LED will be easy to make a decision.

Just when Zhang Ran was having a headache, he received a call from Anna Wintour. Wintour's daughter was going to attend the Clion dance in November. She called and asked how the skirt was designed.

Zhang Ran had already designed it and copied a white princess-style skirt from his memory. Fan Binbin once wore this skirt and received unanimous praise. However, at this moment, Zhang Ran was thinking about the LED question, and Wentour asked about the skirt again, so the LED and the skirt were combined into one in his mind, and he immediately shouted: "LED skirt!"

At the 2007 New York Autumn and Winter Fashion Week, designer Hussein Karayan launched the "Airborne" series, one of which was made of Swarovski crystals and 15,600 LEDs. The whole skirt is as brilliant as a galaxy, expressing spring with concepts such as changing seasons, reincarnation of life and death, and the fragility of human beings. The entire skirt has aroused great response in the industry and is believed to have crossed the boundaries of stage performance art, product design and installation art, and is of epoch-making significance.

Zhang Ran felt that if she could let Wintour's daughter wear LED skirts at the Clion dance, she would definitely become the focus of attention of the audience. Wintour is a queen-like existence in the fashion circle. Her daughter appears in such a dreamy dress. Whether inside or outside the circle, there must be a lot of discussion. Then this LED skirt will definitely become popular and may even become a trend!

Many people may think that the traditional European aristocrats have declined and no longer have any influence, but in fact, this is not the case. They may not have any influence in politics, but their cultural influence is still very large. Many trendy things are often popular among the people after they are popular in the upper class. There is even a socialite economy, and the clothes that the women of wealthy nobles wear and what they are popular with. Once exposed, they often become popular quickly.

For example, ISSA is a young clothing brand, which is relatively niche. However, because Princess Kate and Prince William announced their engagement, the blue dress was sold out within a few hours, and the brand ISSA became famous overnight. Later, because Princess Kate wore the brand's clothing many times, ISSA quickly became popular in the UK. Similarly, Chinese designer Wu Jigang attended the presidential inauguration ceremony because Michelle Obama wore a one-shoulder white dress designed by him. Wu Jigang has since become the first choice for women in the American business and political circles.

If the LED skirt becomes popular, it can answer the controversy about the LEDs well. The combination of clothing and LEDs can create magical effects and cause huge responses; the visual impact brought by the combination of square performance and large LEDs will definitely surprise the whole world. Isn’t it worth taking some risks?

Of course, this is the ideal situation. It is also possible that the LED skirt will respond mediocrely after it was launched, and there were no people paying attention to it at all. But at least there is a chance of success, which is definitely better than doing nothing.

Anna Wintour didn't understand Chinese, and didn't know what the "led skirt" that came out of Zhang Ran meant, and asked: "What did you say? Is Catherine's skirt designed?"

Zhang Ran said excitedly: "Ms. Wintour, I had already designed it, but now I have a better idea. I plan to make an LED skirt, which looks like an ordinary princess dress under the light and sunlight, but once I enter the dark space, the skirt will shine and turn into the crystal skirt that the princess wears in fairy tales!"

After listening to Zhang Ran's words, Wentour was also very happy and felt that he had found the right person: "Crystal skirt, this is really a wonderful idea, I like this idea!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ran designed a skirt for Wintour's daughter again. He did not copy Karajan's design. Karajan's LED skirt is a tube skirt, which is not suitable for wearing at a dance party. Zhang Ran thinks that the Klion dance is a gift for girls to come to an age, and the princess skirt is the best choice.

So, Zhang Ran designed a sky blue princess dress with reference to the skirts of "Frozen" and "Cinderella". The whole skirt was flowing, fluffy, and had a sense of flow, like a watercolor painting!

The skirt is beautiful enough. If the LED effect is added, the whole skirt will become extremely dreamy and can satisfy the wishes of all girls. Wear the most beautiful skirt in the world and become the only girl in the eyes of the prince!

The next night, Guo Pei came outside Zhang Ran's ward and saw the door was closed. She knocked on the door, heard the sound of "come in" and pushed the door open and entered.

"Guo Pei, you are here!" Zhang Ran opened the bedside table, took out the design drawing and handed it to Guo Pei, "I designed a skirt and needed your help to make it. You can take a look first and give me some advice!"

"This is a princess dress, how do you design this?" Guo Pei took the design drawing and looked at it. He felt strange. Then he commented pertinently, "The color of the skirt is very beautiful, very fluffy and very atmospheric, and the skirt has a flowing feeling. However, in terms of style, it is relatively retro and even a bit conservative. The whole skirt is beautiful enough, dreamy enough, but not fashionable enough, unlike fashion designers, but it looks like a movie costume designer! "

Zhang Ran nodded slightly, Guo Pei had a good vision: "This is the skirt that participated in the Clion dance, which was worn by a girl's adult dance. I think every girl has a princess dream in her heart, hoping that she is the innocent princess who is envied and blessed by the world. This dance is an opportunity to realize their dreams, so I chose a princess dress with a more retro style."

When Guo Pei heard the Clion dance, he immediately understood: "It turned out to be a skirt prepared for the Clion dance, which is very suitable! Chen Xiaodan came to me some time ago to see the skirt, but unfortunately he didn't like it. Unexpectedly, she came to find you. This skirt is quite suitable for her!"

Zhang Ran was stunned when he heard Chen Xiaodan. He knew that Chen Xiaodan had attended the Clion dance, but he didn't expect it to be this year. He waved his hand and said, "I don't know Chen Xiaodan you mentioned, and she doesn't know me either. How could he ask me to help her design the dress? It's Anna Wintour's daughter Catherine to attend the Clion dance. I don't know what Wentour thought, Galliano, Tom Ford didn't look for me, but he actually asked me for two knives!"

Guo Pei laughed: "Although Galliano, Tom Ford and others are amazing, they have designed clothing for too many people, so their designs are not surprising; but you are different. You are not a designer, famous enough, and a billionaire. If you can design clothing for her daughter, that is the first. Many people who claim to be tasteful don't like to wear Chanel, Dior and other big brands, but like to wear niche brands! This is the reason!"

Zhang Ran thought about it and said that it was true. He smiled and said, "I really planned to design a unique outfit for Wintour's daughter, and I planned to blind everyone present." She pointed to the design drawing and said, "I hope these areas will shine, install the luminous LEDs in the skirt, so that the whole skirt will shine like the Cinderella crystal skirt in the fairy tale!"

Guo Pei's eyes lit up. This effect can be achieved by setting LED points. The whole skirt will be as shiny and dazzling as the legendary crystal skirt. However, she felt that although this idea is good, it is difficult to achieve: "Your idea is very good and the skirt is designed beautifully. However, if too many LED points are arranged on the skirt, it will increase the weight of the skirt. Even if the skirt is used to support the skirt, it will be difficult to maintain a fluffy state. It will appear very bulky and there will be no elegance!"

Zhang Ran felt that this was indeed a problem: "Then do you have any solution?"

Guo Pei pondered and said, "I think it is possible to use luminous cloth to make skirts and arrange LED points in key areas, such as waist, so the effect may be better!"

Zhang Ran felt it made sense and asked, "Is there just a shiny fabric now?"

As a fashion designer, Guo Pei knows the information about fabrics well: "Last year, the University of Michigan in the United States developed a luminous cloth that can absorb solar energy during the day, shine at night, and even illuminate people!"

When Zhang Ran heard that the fabric could illuminate, he suddenly thought of the program "Five Rings of Dreams" in his memory. The stars flying down from the bird's nest gathered magically in the venue and gathered into a silver-shining five rings; the flying sky flew from the sky, picked up rings on the ground, surrounded by the five rings floating in the night sky, which was both beautiful and magical.

Unfortunately, in order to achieve the best effect of the Fifth Ring, the lights in the audience must be turned off, and Feitian cannot arrange too many lights, so it is impossible to see the beautiful movements of Feitian Fairy. Later, Xie Nan, the director of "Fantasy Fifth Ring", admitted that the girl who performed Feitian practiced in the air for ten months and suffered a lot. Their performances can be said to be the best among all Feitian performances in China, but because of the lighting, the audience was unable to appreciate their performances, which is a huge regret!

If Feitian Fairy's clothing is made of luminous cloth, can this regret be avoided?

Think about it, the Feitian Fairy flew from the sky with a faint glow on her body, like an elf. The whole picture will be more dreamy, and the visual impact of "Five Rings of Dreams" will be stronger!

Zhang Ran decided to make a luminous cloth when he went to the United States in August to see the effect, but this whole luminous cloth is not suitable for use as a dress for the Klion dance party: "What I want is not a cloth that can be bright all over. The whole piece is too rigid. What I want is a starry sky. It has many small highlights on it, just like a starry sky, which is similar to applying phosphor, and a shiny feeling, so that it is dreamy."

Guo Pei felt this was a bit difficult and frowned and said, "This kind of cloth should not be available, so you can only customize it as needed!"

Zhang Ran said, "Then can you order this kind of fabric?"

Guo Pei smiled and said, "It will probably take a long time to ask me to find someone to test the fabric you want. It will definitely not be able to catch up with the Klion dance. I think you'd better find Wintour. As long as she says hello, those clothing companies will try their best to try out the fabric she wants."

Zhang Ran felt that this was indeed the best way. I would help your daughter make skirts. If you don’t provide them, it would be unreasonable. So he took out his cell phone and dialed Wintour’s phone: “Ms. Wintour, I have designed your daughter’s skirt, but to achieve the effect I want, two special fabrics are needed. One is a whole piece of shiny fabric, and the other is a kind of shiny fabric like the starry sky. You know that I am a director, and I don’t know where to find this special fabric, so I can only find you!”

Finding a piece of fabric is really nothing for Wintour: "Of course, it's just that you can't tell the specific requirements for fabric on the phone. It's better to let the fabric dealer negotiate with you!"

Zhang Ran thought for a while and said, "Let's do this, I'm going to the United States a few days later, and we'll talk to each other when we meet!"
Chapter completed!