China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 385 Surrounded by supermodels, the public enemy of American men

Cao Xuan left the UK on the morning of November 11. Before leaving, he went to Cambridge to visit his sister-in-law. Zeng Li's younger sister was studying in the UK.

After that, Cao Xuan went to Sweden to promote his new album. The popularity of his new album in Europe, except for the UK, is the forest kingdom.

Although Cao Xuan only stayed in Sweden for about a day, he hurriedly flew back to the United States by plane to prepare for the rehearsal of the Victoria's Secret show.

But after a quick glance, the scenery of this country still left a deep impression on Cao Xuan.

Forests, lakes, snow-capped mountains, seaside, buildings...beautiful and artistic.

Cao Xuan has heard about the poetic scenery of the Arctic Circle for a long time, and now he has really seen a thing or two.

Thinking about it in my heart, if I have time in the future, I can take Dongxi Ergong to travel here and relax.

Speaking of it, their relationship is actually quite sad. In the first two years, they could go out for a stroll, but now with their growing fame and status, it is troublesome to even go out for a meal, and most of the time they can only stay at home.

At present, the domestic economic development is limited, and there are not many private clubs or resorts with confidential facilities. Even if there are, the facilities and scenery are not very good, and it is not fun to play.

So they wanted to go out for a walk, so they could only take the opportunity of filming to visit a few scenic spots.

If you go by yourself, it’s okay if you don’t get recognized. If you do, you can wait to be watched, especially Cao Xuan, who has no giant pandas in China to recruit people.

But after all, it is not convenient to play casually by yourself, so Cao Xuan also thought about finding opportunities to take them abroad for a while.

Right now, his reputation in Europe and the United States has not yet fully spread out, and the information at home and abroad is not well developed. With good confidentiality measures, he can travel comfortably.

If in a few years, the Internet is developed, Cao Xuan's reputation continues to rise, and if he wants to take the two palaces together for vacation, he will have to buy a private island.

Cao Xuan was not one to procrastinate. Before he left, he left an assistant to help him inquire and study the tour route and logistical arrangements.

It just so happened that this year the relationship between the east and west palaces has warmed up and eased. After the new year, he changed his schedule and came to Europe to play a three-person world for ten days and a half months.

If you are lucky, you may be able to taste your long-cherished wish......

With good expectations for the future, Cao Xuan returned to the United States, came to New York, and met Leslie Wexner, the head of Victoria's Secret.

The full name of Victoria's Secret is Victoria's Secret. It is a chain brand of women's underwear and the most famous fashion underwear brand in the world.

The founder's name is Roy Raymond. The reason is that it is too embarrassing to buy his wife's underwear in the mall, so he opened a special women's underwear store in 1977.

But a few years later, in 1982, the founder sold five stores to Leslie Wexner due to poor business conditions.

Wexner's outstanding ability has made Victoria's Secret shine in just a few years. Its annual revenue reached 90 billion US dollars in the 10s when it went public, becoming a world-recognized leader in underwear.

As of 2003, Victoria's Secret has thousands of stores and related distributors. In addition to underwear, it has also achieved remarkable results in perfume, accessories, cosmetics, skin care products, and ready-to-wear, and its income is full.

The reason why Victoria's Secret is so popular is that it has redefined underwear on the one hand.

In the past, underwear was mostly practical, and Victoria’s Secret was the first to define it as fashion + sexy, capturing the common G-spot of both female and male consumers.

In order to better spread its influence, Victoria's Secret opened a fashion underwear exhibition in 1995, also known as the Victoria's Secret Show, which quickly attracted attention and was called "the world's underwear event" by the media.

Victoria's Secret, who had tasted the sweetness, began to make troubles. First, he produced sky-high underwear, which was the highlight of the year.

The English name of this thing is [Fantasy Bra], referred to as FB, and it is translated as Fantasy Bra.

It was first launched in 1996, and it was only worth $100 million at that time. By 1999, the FB of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was worth more than $1000 million, which shocked all the melon eaters at that time.

Of course, the reason why this sky-high underwear FB is so expensive is not the underwear, but the diamonds on it.

This year's Victoria's Secret FB has been announced, the name is "Very Sexy Dream", it is inlaid with 1200 pink sapphires and 90 carats of emerald-cut diamonds, and is worth 1100 million US dollars.

This is really diamond-studded...

Later, Victoria's Secret came up with the concept of Victoria's Secret Angel in 1999, which completely tied Victoria's Secret and fashion shows together, and its influence was completely out of the circle.

Countless models are proud to be on the Victoria's Secret stage. Maybe this is not necessarily the highest stage in the modeling industry, but it is definitely the most influential one.

An international supermodel, if she didn't walk around the Victoria's Secret show, then her supermodel would definitely get a big [? 】No.

Afterwards, Victoria's Secret bundled the sky-high price of FB with these Victoria's Secret angels, and determined that only the most popular Victoria's Secret angels each year can wear FB in the Victoria's Secret show that year, which is the so-called C position, the angel of angels.

So far, Victoria's Secret's influence is spreading every year.

Just because every year the major supermodels tear each other up because of FB, countless melon-eating people move small benches to sit and watch the show.

According to some media statistics, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show attracts millions of people's attention every year. Coupled with the spread of other aspects, the scope of influence can easily reach tens of millions.

This data may be conservative. After all, many male viewers will not admit that they like to watch Victoria's Secret even in the face of anonymous interviews.

Just like many old color critics, with UC and quark installed in their mobile phones, they must emphasize that they are for learning...

.........

Wexner was kind and soft-spoken, Cao Xuan didn't have much impression of him.

I vaguely remember that this person was cheated enough by a certain island owner, and it wasn't necessarily a scam. Anyway, he was forced to resign and was forced to resign, leaving only a pile of money.

Cao Xuan didn't plan to have a deep friendship with the other party, and he didn't have any lingerie business, he just came to perform and didn't have much interaction.

However, Cao Xuan still communicated with the other party for a while because of the performance process.

It's a rare time for a Victoria's Secret show. He doesn't want to just show up once, sing two songs and leave. Although it's a face-lifting show, he also wants to achieve better results.

If he remembers correctly, 2003 should be one of Victoria's Secret's most classic big shows, known as the beginning of the age of the gods, with countless classic pictures.

Now that he can catch up with this moment, Cao Xuan also wants to leave his own wonderful shots.

So after seeing the ordinary performance process of Victoria's Secret at the beginning, Cao Xuan wrote a new performance plan for Victoria's Secret.

The person in charge of the Victoria's Secret show thought it was interesting, but he didn't dare to change it without permission, so he handed it over to Wexner. After reading the plan, Wexner was noncommittal, but proposed to have an interview with Cao Xuan before the rehearsal.

"There are still about two days left for the big show. If there are changes, is there enough rehearsal time?"

It can be clearly seen that Wexner is actually quite interested in Cao Xuan's plan.

Although this plan is very selfish and will greatly improve Cao Xuan's performance in this show, it does have a very high promotional effect on the entire Victoria's Secret show. At least it is more interesting and topical than ordinary performances.

But what he is worried about is that if there is not enough rehearsal time, the performance will be compromised or mistakes will be made.

"In fact, it seems that the changes are very big, but in fact it is a combination of the two processes, and then there is some interaction. The supermodels have rich stage experience, and they can do a rehearsal or two, and they can even play freely."

Cao Xuan had already made up his mind, and put forward a statement to reassure Wexner, and even said: "We can try to rehearse, if the effect is not good, we can resume the normal performance as scheduled."

Seeing that Wexner was tempted, he added more fire: "Since Victoria's Secret intends to upgrade this year and has spent a lot of effort, let's be more bold and open to achieve better results."

This statement convinced Wexner.

The reason why 2003 was hailed as the beginning of the age of the gods is largely because Victoria's Secret made aggressive decisions this year.

In the past few years, the Victoria's Secret fashion show was relatively serious. The models were more for displaying clothes, and too many individual labels were not allowed.

Since this year, Victoria's Secret has been upgraded in an all-round way, with more entertainment and commercialization. The venue is very luxurious, and a large number of supermodels have been recruited. Several of them are the world's top ten supermodels, and there are no restrictions Model play.

From the original model showing underwear, the model and underwear complement each other, opening up a relatively new show mode.

The supermodels are also very up-to-date, one by one with full firepower, colorful points, steps, movements, eyes, glamorous, and contributed countless scenes.

Since then, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show has completely become a temple in the hearts of countless models all over the world. Its influence is no longer limited to the United States, the underwear industry, and the fashion industry, but has been fully out of the circle worldwide.

Even many Chinese people may have never seen it, or may not even know what it is, but they have heard of the name Victoria's Secret.

As Cao Xuan said, Victoria's Secret spent so much effort just to spread the influence of the Victoria's Secret show. Since Cao Xuan is expected to add to the cake, why not do it.

But just to be on the safe side, Wexner personally watched the rehearsal of Cao Xuan's show.

Although the cooperation with supermodels is still a bit jerky, the effect is indeed much better than the previous ones.

After a series of discussions, Wexner agreed to part of Cao Xuan's performance plan.

That is to say, for Cao Xuan's two songs, Victoria's Secret only agreed to one with a better effect, which not only saves a part of the rehearsal time, but if it fails to meet the requirements, there is still a normal song as the base.

Cao Xuan also felt that doing so was the best plan, and agreed decisively.

Afterwards, after two days of rehearsals, on the evening of November 11, US time, the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was officially held at No.8 Ninth Legion Armory (Exhibition Hall) in New York.

In the background, Cao Xuan quietly closed his eyes and rested his mind. He occasionally picked up a fire red wooden guitar that was recently received next to him, and tried playing it a few times.

It was made by a top European craftsman, made of maple wood, and it took three years to hand-build. The material, craftsmanship, appearance, and quality are all high-quality. It is worth 14 US dollars, and it can be replaced by a house in China.

It may be more expensive now, though, because of its tainted celebrity value.

This guitar will be with Cao Xuan for a few more years, and he will attend some important occasions. Maybe he can sell it for a million dollars later.
This is not an exaggeration. The reason why those expensive guitars are so expensive is basically because they are related to celebrities, out-of-print or stories.

Cao Xuan sang with this guitar at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show today, and died holding it the next day.

Celebrity + storytelling + out-of-print, the three major elements are assembled. If this guitar is left on the market, it may be snapped up by Cao Xuan fans or collectors.

However, Cao Xuan obviously did not sacrifice his idea of ​​creating a myth in the guitar market.

I bought this guitar named [Fire] simply because it was pleasing to the eye, and it had a good meaning, it was popular and hot, so I bought it.

A singer or musician who is good at using the guitar sees a good instrument, just like a swordsman. When he sees a good sword, he will basically take it if conditions permit, even if it is not used.

Cao Xuan has a strong desire to collect. It’s okay if he doesn’t have money, but if he has money, he wants to draw home when he sees something he likes.

This [Fire] is already his sixth guitar. They are all high-quality goods, and they are used interchangeably. Some other instruments are also collected, some are often used, and some are pure collections.

For example, he has a suona, the pole is made of hundred-year-old rosewood, the bowl is made of pure gold, and the whistle is made of jadeite ice seed. Even if it can be played, it is not used for carrying it, it can only be used for collection and play.

At first, Cao Xuan asked someone to play this suona as a gift for his uncle's 65th birthday.

At the beginning, he was often taken care of by his uncle, and his craftsmanship was also passed down by him. To a certain extent, his uncle was one of his music enlighteners, so when he passed his birthday, he gave him a gift to express his affection.

Later, I found that it was very beautiful, so I gave one to my uncle, and he made another one for collection.

Cao Xuan waited indifferently, next to Mike, who had the cheek to act as a manager, stood guard at the door with a chubby face, his eyes wandering around.

Victoria's Secret's backstage is open, even Cao Xuan only has a corner cubicle, sitting in the cubicle can easily see most of the Victoria's Secret supermodels.

Although some supermodels haven't changed their clothes yet, some are more impatient and have already changed into underwear and a coat.

But regardless of whether he was wearing it or not, the dazzling array of long legs passing by backstage from time to time made Mike dizzy, wishing that his eyes would grow on other people's legs.

With that appearance, even Cao Xuan felt ashamed, unlike him who had been among the flowers, but his heart was as calm as water.

Well, the main thing is that I got tired of watching it for two days.

Dozens of supermodels circled around every day, thin, tall and long-legged, Cao Xuan felt dizzy, but now it is rare for a little girl who is fatter.

As the big show approached, the supermodels lined up, wearing their respective sexy battle suits, with long legs, ready to go on stage.

Cao Xuan also got up and stood at the exit, applauding each other. Many supermodels would give him high fives as they passed by him.

"come on!"

In two days, Cao Xuan basically had face-to-face meetings with most of the supermodels, and several of them even collaborated on the show together.

Young, tall, handsome, rich, gentleman, considerate, talented, famous...

Cao Xuan has a very good image in the hearts of the supermodels. It is not an exaggeration to say that there are quite a few supermodels who stuffed him with notes these two days.

However, Cao Xuan has no interest and has not had any feedback. On the contrary, it has made him more popular among supermodels to a certain extent.

It would be too unchallenging and would lower women’s favorability if someone just hooked their fingers. However, the more Cao Xuan refused, he didn’t even win the top beauties, which showed the “difficulty”.

The man who was defeated by others, my wife easily settles it down, doesn't it mean that my wife's charm is far better than this bunch of little bitches...

This made Cao Xuan a favorite among supermodels, and his popularity made even many Victoria's Secret directors a little envious.

It can be said that if Cao Xuan is willing, he dare not say too much. There is still a great chance of kissing Fangze with 2~3 supermodels, but Cao Xuan is really not very interested.

He himself is more inclined to the oriental aesthetics. In addition to the long legs, supermodels are really powerful, and their temperaments also have their own advantages, but most of their looks are not particularly poignant to Cao Xuan.

Of course, it's not that there are people who attract Cao Xuan. Ji Niangniang looks tough, but her temperament is a plus. Queen Eugene, the old fox and Kashen are also in line with Cao Xuan's aesthetics.

If there is a chance in the future and the conditions are right, Cao Daguan actually doesn't mind "making friends".

But there are so many people staring at the Victoria's Secret show, and Cao Xuan doesn't have that much brains. He is crazy to hook up girls here. Anyway, there is a contact method, so I will talk about it later.

Cao Xuan calmly clapped hands with the supermodels, and Mike's jealous eyes turned green, wishing that his soul would possess Cao Xuan and interact with the supermodel sisters cordially.

"Shut up your saliva, after all, you are the master who has eaten and seen it before, as for what?"

"You'll know when you're married, alas."

Mike looked sad and didn't want to mention the past, Cao Xuan didn't bother to talk to him, turned around and went back to pick up the guitar, ready to play.

The recording and broadcasting of the Victoria's Secret show is only 20 minutes to half an hour, but in fact, there are various preparation times.

Moreover, the supermodel catwalks are all edited, which is not so fast normally, and the normal process is a little longer than the broadcast time.

But since there are still a lot of spectators present, in order to ensure the enjoyment of the big show, it is actually compressed very tightly, basically more than an hour at most.

After the supermodel show here, the next one is Cao Xuan's opening performance, the timing is actually very tight.

Cao Xuan sang two songs today, one of which is "you're beautiful", which is his most famous song in the United States. It is a masterpiece of fame, and the meaning of the lyrics is relatively appropriate.

Although it is a love song, Dayi met a girl who was very excited and sang on the stage of the Victoria's Secret show.

The speed of the Victoria's Secret catwalk is still very fast. Although there are nearly 30 supermodels, it takes less than one minute for the long-legged one to go from the exit to the front of the stage.

And this one hasn't turned back yet, the next one is on the stage, and what they are after is beautiful women with long legs and a fast pace.

So the first round of the catwalk, the opening only took about ten minutes, and it was Cao Xuan's turn to appear.

In the dim light, Cao Xuan was wearing a white shirt and playing the guitar by himself, sitting leisurely on a chair at the end of the stage, playing and singing affectionately by himself.

"...

You were beautiful
you are always the most beautiful

so beautiful
so beautiful
......"

The news that Cao Xuan was a Victoria's Secret guest had already been known to the audience, but as a popular star nowadays, when he appeared, everyone still gave due applause and surprise reactions.

The song "You're beautiful" ranked No. 40 on Billboard's singles chart. It has stayed for more than [-] weeks and has been in the forefront for a long time.

After Cao Xuan’s Grammys, a large number of new songs hit the charts this year, and the popularity of the songs faded before they got off the charts, but they were still one of the most popular songs in the United States in 2002.

Last year, Billboard announced the top ten singles of 2002. "You're beautiful" was not selected, and many Cao Xuan fans still refused to accept it.

But there is no way. The ten selected songs have basically won the Billboard singles chart. The honor of "You're beautiful" is indeed flawed.

However, because the song has always been "suppressing shady scenes", fans still have an excuse to scold Billboard.

Anyway, everyone must be right, and the one who is wrong must be the leaderboards of you heartless capitalists...

The extremely high popularity, coupled with the easy-to-remember lyrics and fresh melody, made this song very popular. When Cao Xuan sang, many audience members hummed softly along with Cao Xuan.

After the song was over, Cao Xuan bowed and stepped off the stage. The audience applauded, the microphones were removed from the stage, the lights were restored, and the supermodels began the next round of catwalks.

Cao Xuan didn't go to the catwalk, but went backstage and changed into a suit. The overall color is red, the long outer collar is black, and there are sequins on it, and his hair has also been changed briefly, making him look more sinister and unruly.

After the second round of the show was over, another guest, Maria, came on stage. She is also today's guest performer besides Cao Xuan.

Because Maria is also a black female singer, but not Sister Niu. Her full name is Maria Blige. She is a representative of female hip-hop singers and is quite influential in the United States.

After Maria finished singing, the next round should be the third round, but it has changed now.

At the end of the darkness, it was not the supermodels who appeared at the exit, but Cao Xuan, who had changed his look, holding a microphone, imitating the supermodels on catwalks, and made a second appearance in a coquettish manner.

At the same time, the prelude drums of a song sounded, and familiar fans have already guessed the name of the song.

Billboard singles chart No.3 - "Sugar".

Amidst the booing and cheering of the audience, Cao Xuan came to the middle of the model gallery. At this time, the prelude passed by. Cao Xuan turned around to look at the exit of the stage, and began to sing the first few lines of the lyrics softly.

"I'm hurting baby, I'm broken down
Baby so hurt, I'm broken

I need your loving, loving
I need your love right now, your love
I need it now
can't wait now

 …”

Accompanied by the singing, in the next second, the old fox was dressed in pink and black, with the corners of his mouth slightly hooked, his waist swaying, and he walked straight towards Cao Xuan with cat steps.

"Oh~"

As I said before, Victoria's Secret's previous shows were more serious. In the previous rounds of catwalks, although the models had their own performances, the overall show was normal.

But now Cao Xuan interacted with the model, instantly attracting the audience's attention.

Cao Xuan sang a song, and walked slowly towards the old fox in two steps. The old fox came close, put his hand on Cao Xuan's shoulder, blinked his electric eyes, turned around easily, faced the audience, walked to the front of the corridor, and put on his familiar pose. Fixed-point pose.

After that, the old fox stepped back and ran into Cao Xuan. The two interacted again, with a bit of anger and ambiguity, but they couldn't pass the line.

The second after the old fox turned around, Empress Eugene stepped out, dressed in black, facing Cao Xuan with her domineering aura.

"(⊙o⊙) Wow~"

The audience exclaimed again, it was not a supermodel who interacted, this show is interesting.

Different from the enchanting old fox just now, Empress Eugene's style is more domineering. When they passed by Cao Xuan, the two looked at each other for two seconds, their red lips were slightly hooked, their hair was tossed, and they walked to the front.

And after the two supermodels, Old Fox and Queen Eugene, Cao Xuan's singing also came to the chorus stage. When he was smiling, he sang the climax stage with a slightly shrill voice.

"Sugar
sweetheart
yes please
that's all I beg of you

Won't you come and put it down on me
can you give me that sweet love
......"

At the exit, Niangniang Ji and Haima, who are supermodels tonight, appeared on the stage at the same time.

One is glamorous and cool, and the other is confident and kind.

The two supermodels, one on the left and the other on the right, greeted Cao Xuan. When they passed by him, Niang Niang leaned sideways to Cao Xuan, raised her leg slightly, her thigh touched Cao Xuan's body, her cold eyes suddenly became wild, and on the other side Hai Ma stretched out her hand to hook Cao Xuan's hand lightly, turning her head and swaying, smiling charmingly and charmingly.

This kind of one man and two women, the handsome guy and the beautiful girl are singing songs, walking on the show, and then there is a sudden almost provocative interaction, which makes the atmosphere of the scene extremely high in an instant.

Of course, there are also many men who look at Cao Xuan and feel itchy in their teeth, crazily chasing lemons.

However, although there was a hint of teasing, the actions of the few people were just a taste, no more than three seconds at most.

The current American atmosphere is relatively conservative, far less flamboyant than later generations, at least on the surface it is not allowed.

For example, the incident of Jennifer Jackson in the 04 Super Bowl halftime show in the original time and space, the parties involved suffered a great blow afterwards.

Of course, there is a lot of complexity behind this matter. Some of the media took the lead, and some were hated by the behind-the-scenes bosses because they screwed up the show, but if it weren't for the conservative reasons, the consequences would not be so serious.

Especially in Hollywood, the "payment" humiliation has always been quite a market, and women's rights in Hollywood are serious in later generations, and Hollywood actresses have been suppressed for a long time, and the rebound is strong.

Of course, the Victoria's Secret fashion underwear show is essentially a sexy sign, so the style can be relatively bolder.

But even so, it's just a taste, not too much.

This is also the heat of discussion between Cao Xuan and Victoria's Secret.

To the point, there is a slight tease in the ambiguity, the hooked people's thoughts are sprouting, and it makes people recall, this is called the stage performance effect.

If the action atmosphere is too much, it will look greasy and vulgar, and even make people feel uncomfortable. It will not only greatly reduce Cao Xuan's song performance, but also tarnish Victoria's Secret's stage style.

Therefore, we must grasp the heat clearly. Fortunately, Cao Xuan and the supermodels are both "veteran actors" with rich experience, and the cooperation effect is quite good.

A song lasts about 4 minutes. Two models come out alone in the main song, and two models appear in the chorus climax at the same time. There are a total of 8 supermodels, all of whom are the pillars of Victoria's Secret tonight.

In addition to the above four, there are Laomi Fairy, Kashen, Big KK, Fernando and Cao Xuan.

8 supermodels interact with Cao Xuan in turn. The supermodels are either stern, chic, elegant, domineering, coquettish, mischievous, kind, shy, active, confused, or charming...

All kinds of movements, eye expressions, wantonly exuding his own charm, accompanied by Cao Xuan's equally sweet and affectionate singing, made the screaming on the scene never stop.

If you want to achieve the best results, the last 8 supermodels will come out together for another wave, which will be even more brilliant.

But it's a pity that there will be the most important finale catwalk later, and that is the moment when the supermodels will show up collectively. It is an exception for two to appear together. Cao Xuan can only accept it when he sees it.

After singing together and bowing again, the applause at the scene was obviously much warmer and wilder than the previous "You're beautiful".

Backstage, several supermodels had already gone to change clothes to prepare for the final show after the stage. Cao Xuan finished his task and loosened his neckline.

Wexner, the head of Victoria's Secret, led some staff members to applaud him and joked.

"Cao, from tomorrow on you will be the public enemy of all men in America."

"Haha, it's my honor."

(End of this chapter)