When he came to the company's upper floor. Winnie, who was sitting at the door, stood up and stood up. It was similar to what many people saw in film and television works: "Mr. Ike, good morning."

"Good morning, Miss Winnie." Ai Fei grabbed the door handle: "Is Jack here?"

"Yes, sir, he's here. Will I inform him to come?"

"Yes, let him know. Oh, pour me a cup of coffee. Black, no milk, two sugar cubes. Thank you."

"Come soon, sir."

When the coffee was brought, Jack also came in. His hair was the same as yesterday. I don’t know if he had to comb his hair again and apply wax every morning: “Sir, are you looking for me?”

“Flowers and condolence card matter?”

"Yes, sir, I've done it. Mr. Megan specifically asked me to express my gratitude to you."

“What about today’s schedule?”

"Yes, sir, yesterday at the Fashion Week, you made an appointment with Mr. George Anne Prada of Prada to officially start negotiations on the cooperation at 9:30 am this morning. By noon, you will be invited to attend the arrangements of Prada..."

"I'm sorry, Jack. Please wait." Ai Fei stopped him with a wry smile: "Jack, I am the president of the company, not a senior government official in your country. So, when you talk to me, be as natural as possible, is it okay?"

Jack sighed with relief: "If that's the case, sir, that would be great."

"continue."

"Yes, sir. You will have lunch with Mr. Prada, and in the afternoon, as arranged, you will hold the first designer meeting before the fashion week. Ask the designers for their opinions on production and company development after the fashion week."

"Where is the evening?"

Jack laughed: "Tonight, it's our birthday program for Ms. Ayami Iko."

"Ah! Yes, I remembered it. Today is Yugong's birthday! I actually forgot, who arranged it?"

"It's Mr. Schmidt." Jack paused: "I heard from Mr. Schmidt that this is Ms. Aiguchi's last birthday with this name. By the way, congratulations, Mr. Ike."

"Thanks."

The two were talking, and Carl knocked in and entered: "Ike, can Miss Paston take up a few minutes for you?"

"Of course. Please sit down and drink something?"

"No, it's not needed." He waved back two young men and sat down on the sofa. Looking at Ai Fei: "Ike, are you really unwilling to do anything to keep Miss Paston? She is the only supermodel in the company, and her appeal in the market plays a vital role, don't you not know that?"

"I know, I know it all."

"..." Carl didn't say anything, but the depression in his eyes showed no doubt, as if he was blaming Ai Fei for his negative attitude.

"Karl, you are a German immigrant, but you have been to the United States for a while, right? According to your observation, what is the development trend of the cultural industry in the United States? The cultural trend I am talking about means that for example, movies, books, publications, and you can barely calculate clothing. What do you think their development is like?"

"Very good. Even very good! A land that has never been through war, immigrants from all over the world for any reason have provided support for the development of the United States. As for what you said, I don't know much about it except the clothing industry and can't give you more answers."

"Let me answer. The American cultural industry is at the forefront of the world, in addition to the reasons you mentioned. Of course, you have already expressed the main reasons. What I added is that what you did not notice is that the United States, which is beyond the influence of war, has another biggest advantage in addition to the favorable development factors brought by national stability, is that they have completely formed their own market! Simply put, countless people have entered the cultural industry, adding countless changes to this field that originally belonged to the tertiary industry. This is the main reason for their success! Can you imagine that an industry can have only a dozen people, or dozens of people, can it develop completely?"

"The same is true for the modeling industry. It is absolutely not enough to have a Miss Paston, and it is unrealistic to have only a supermodel. When she leaves, it is the moment when I choose the second, the third boy or girl and crown them! Only when such a market is formed can the modeling industry officially develop."

"What's good for you?"

"You haven't seen the whole forest yet! My German friend!" Ai Fei shouted and stood up from the seat: Only with more models and more super models can we have more people to wear the clothes we designed to go to the show. Of course, according to my requirements, models also need to maintain this fashion in life that is ahead of ordinary people. The most direct result of this is that more and more people begin to accept and recognize new styles of clothing, more and more people start to buy and wear fashion, and our business will grow bigger and bigger. Do you understand this explanation?"

"Even if that's the case? Do you have to abandon Miss Paston?"

"This is another problem." Ai Fei's leak seemed to fade a little: "Carl, there is a very negative side of my personality. I have always accepted other people's choices as much as possible on the basis of respect. So, if Miss Paston wants to leave because of some problems, I will not stop it."

"Do?" Carl's brains were so quick. His thinking was terrifying: "Do you think this approach can be called "many" to block it? You...have almost nothing!"

Ai Fei scratched his head awkwardly: "Okay, okay, if you have time, I will contact Miss Paston again, okay?"

"Do you still plan to just listen to her opinion and nod your agreement this time in this contact?"

“Eh? You know?”

"I know, of course I know. Miss Paston and I were on the phone and she told me all your performance yesterday! Do you know, in her heart, you are a man who doesn't know how to cherish at all!"

Ai Fei scolded him a little embarrassed and angry: "Hey! Are you okay? What does it mean to not know how to cherish? I cherish it very much too! For example,..."

“For example, what?”

"For example, the relationship with Arimiya Iko, for example, with your friendship."

Carl raised his blue eyes and glanced at him, sighing slowly: "Ike, you are my friend. Although we may not reach all consensus because of some things, I have always cherished our friendship with you. So, as your friend and as your subordinate, I think I need to tell you that you did something wrong with Miss Paston's departure."

Ai Fei blinked and said nothing: "..."

"Maybe you think respecting other people's choices is important, but have you ever thought about it, if this thing is used by more people, every model we trained may be poached by other agency companies. In the end, we can only be a training company that provides cheap models for other people's companies. Is this the result you want?"

The office door was knocked open to Winnie from outside: "Mr. Ike, Mr. George Anne Prada of Prada Company is here."

There was no choice but to pause the unfinished conversation and go out to meet guests.

In the eyes of Westerners, there is no such thing as who should be. Everything is for one's own struggle. Even if the company was founded by its own father, it does not mean that it must be inherited by its own children. Therefore, if Mr. George Anne Prada wants to become the president of the company, he must achieve success, and let Mr. Mario and members of the company's board of directors agree that he will be a good leader, and there is no second way.

Prada Company has opened up the American market since 1935, but because of the outbreak of the war, the Italian country's position in the war made their products very unsatisfactory in the United States, and it was simply a loss of money to maintain it. It was not until 1948 that the situation improved slightly. Just as the Italians celebrated the company's development momentum, McCarthyism was rampant in the United States, and Prada Company was also affected - Mario has many Italian friends - which also made his company the target of criticism in the United States. As soon as it improved a little, it fell into a bigger quagmire.

In short, from 1948 to 1952, Prada's sales in the US market were a mess. Not only was it forced to close its stores in San Francisco and Philadelphia, but even Victor Prada, Mario Prada, who was in charge of the US market at the time, returned to Italy in shame and only served as a idle position in charge of public relations on the board of directors. Mario was originally going to let his son go.

George came to the United States, but the Italian boy was busy divorced his wife, so the matter was temporarily dragged down. It was not until September 1953 that the divorce was handled and he came to the United States with his daughter. During this period, his sister, Maria Prada, head of the European Development Department of Prada Company, had already spoken at his headquarters in Paris: By 1954, Prada's sales in Europe would reach an unprecedented 20,000 US dollars!

George's business talent is not as good as his sister, but he grew up in such a family. He also knows what such a number means to the Kingdom of Prada. This was in the 1950s! If Maria could achieve such a success in the European market, she could have been appointed as the next executive president! Such a result was unacceptable to George, who had a man's self-esteem: If it weren't for that bitch Lolita, he would have proposed to divorce me at this time, and the candidate for the European branch would have been mine! And I would have achieved more impressive achievements than Maria!

This time, after traveling to the United States, and after traveling all over the east and west coasts and listening carefully about the market, George made a decision: to cooperate with Ike as much as possible and use his own company's related fashion products to cooperate with Ike. After all, the production of products that the other party has not yet entered the market is Prada's biggest strength!

However, the conditions for entering the European market proposed by Ai Fei last night were unacceptable to George. Europe is the world of Maria. If Ike's women's clothing is paired with Prada's company's shoulder bags, luggage, leather shoes, sunglasses, tie, belt and other product partners, it will probably increase Maria's sales in the European market...! There is no benefit to his position in the company. Therefore, in his heart, he would rather agree to him with other conditions than to agree to Ai Fei's request to enter the European market!

As mentioned in the previous article, Ai Fei and Kar walked into the conference room one after another and extended their hand to each other: "Welcome, Mr. Prada. Ah, there is still a little friend? Welcome!"

"I'm glad to meet you, my friend of the East. Oh, forgive me, I think, you must be willing to be friends with a hospitality Italian, right?"

George's Italian accent was quite heavy, and Ai Fei could probably understand it, but it felt very difficult: "Of course, Mr. Prada, I am willing to make friends with you."

"My daughter, Museka, you know."

"Hi! Good morning, Museca."

Museca spoke without any accent, even better than Ai Fei's English: "Good morning, sir."

Several people took the seats with guests and guests. George looked around for a week and suddenly laughed: "Mr. Ike, have you noticed a very strange phenomenon? You are Japanese, your company's manager, Mr. Schmidt, is German, and I am Italian. This is comparable to a meeting we never had the chance to attend a few years ago, right?"

Ai Fei burst out laughing: "Maybe this is the direction of my future efforts! Women or gentlemen who strive for more nationality will join my company to strengthen and develop the alliance goals that we have not achieved!"

Except for Carl who barely twitched the corner of his mouth, the others smiled at the same time.

"So, Mr. Ike, I am sorry to have a cooperation between Prada and Ike, and cannot agree to the conditions you put forward last night to enter the European market. If you have other requirements, I think I am willing to meet you on the basis of cooperation."

"Can't agree? You mean that Prada is unwilling to help Ike enter the European market? Can you tell me why?"

"Mr. Ike, I think you may have a little misunderstanding about this. This time I came to the United States as the president of the US headquarters of Prada, not the manager of Europe. Even if I can agree to your request - in fact, I do not agree - I must report this matter to the board of directors of Prada, and then consider the specific details after approval. So, first, I do not have such rights, and second, I am unwilling to accept a decision that can enable my sister to gain greater economic benefits."

Ai Fei nodded: "I understand. So, if you cooperate in the United States, what kind of support can you give Ike?"
Chapter completed!