Chapter 418

"Tom, Anna, welcome!" Li Feng greeted them warmly and gave them a warm hug and a face-to-face gift.

Under the personal reception of Li Feng, the party went to the reception teahouse of the special receptionist on the first floor of the main house. The servant gave Li Feng and owitz tea, Tom and Anna coffee, and chatted about the beautiful scenery of the Central Park.

"John, your mansion is now famous in New York. Do you mind if I visit it?" After chatting for about 10 minutes, Anna Wintour suddenly smiled and asked Li Feng.

"Of course, you can visit at any time. I'll let the housekeeper take you."

"Isn't Mr. owitz here? Just let owitz take me. I think owitz is always familiar with here."

"Well, it's my pleasure. To tell you the truth, I've been to this mansion twice, but I really haven't visited it well." Owitz paused a little and then replied with a smile.

"OK, I'll let Annie show you around." Then Li Feng picked up the phone and made a phone call with Wang Siqing, asking her to come and take Wintour and owitz around the house in person.

In fact, Li Feng knows that Anna Wintour knows that Li Feng will talk to Tom Ford next. In order to avoid suspicion, she puts forward it herself. Similarly, the human spirit's owitz also reacted in an instant and cooperated with Anna Wintour's words.

Seeing that Anna Wintour, the fashionable female devil, talked and laughed with owitz and left the tea room under the leadership of Wang Siqing, Li Feng and Tom Ford who were left in the tea room were quiet.

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"Tom, to tell you the truth, as an American, I am proud of your achievements in the fashion industry."

Listening to Li Feng's admiration for his position in the fashion circle, Tom also responded with a proud face. After all, the person who praised himself in front of him was a super rich like Li Feng. Having wealth in Meidi meant having everything. Although this was a little exaggerated, one of them held coffee and the other held tea and took a sip.

"I think owitz should have explained what he meant. Now that you're here, I don't have to avoid it. Just open up and say it.

Tom, I really appreciate your position and ability in the fashion circle. There is no doubt that you are also the number one person in the fashion circle today.

If there is a gap between you and Carl (Buddha), Armani, Saint Laurent and others, that is, the gap in time and qualifications. 30 years later, your position in the fashion circle may be like Carl today.

Now you have a certain gap with them, but there is no way to make up for it in a short time. Only career is a real career that belongs to you.

For example, create your own brand and make the brand become the top brand in the fashion circle. At that time, your position in the fashion circle may be on an equal footing with the people above. "

Li Feng actually made it clear that in terms of fashion design and creative ability, today's Tom is really no inferior to anyone.

As the creative director of Gucci group, think about Gucci's appearance before the 1990s. At that time, gucci was declining and even almost went bankrupt.

It was Tom who began to enter Gucci and took over the responsibility of Gucci's creative design. After he became the creative director, with his grasp of fashion, each Gucci new product launch can quickly become a benchmark of global fashion, which shows Tom's genius in fashion design.

Gucci group can be said to be better day by day, and has started a series of mergers and acquisitions of global fashion brands. Now it has the prototype of a fashion giant, and then it has become one of the world's largest fashion and luxury giants around 2000. This can explain everything about Tom.

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But there is no doubt that even if he succeeds in Gucci, after all, the time is still short. If he works in Gucci for decades, he may be as important as Carl to Chanel, but it is obvious that Tom has fallen into a bottleneck in his career to a certain extent.

If you want to improve your career in a short time, it's almost impossible to become the creative director of a company. To put it bluntly, you're just a senior worker.

The only way is to make your own brand, just like his predecessors, such as Dior, Chanel, Saint Laurent, Armani and so on. Look at those big brands in the fashion industry today. Isn't it that there was a top fashion talent in the early stage, then created a fashion brand with your own name, and then developed slowly.

Later generations of Tom Ford also took such a road, and it was quite successful, but it was almost impossible to make his own brands such as Chanel, Dior and so on successful, because the global fashion brand pattern had basically taken shape at that time.

The fashion circle is a pattern in which several giants stand side by side. No one is willing to take out the interests that have been cherished. It is impossible to create such a big cause on their own.

Maybe later Tom Ford also had this consideration when he went to make a film. Although his own self-made TF (Tom Ford) is very profitable, it can make a lot of money every time it launches new products, but that's all.

It is impossible to rise like Dior, Chanel, Armani and other brands. Among ordinary people, many people may not have heard of TF brand at all.

Anyway, I've made enough money, so I have the ability to play other things I'm interested in, so making an art film is my new achievement in art, and that's all I can do.

Now, with Li Feng's support, it may be possible for Tom to become the new generation of "godfather of fashion". If you want to achieve Buddha's position in the fashion circle, you need not only talent, but also the cooperation of time, geography, people and all aspects.

Li Feng's meaning is very clear. It's you Tom. Today's career has entered the bottleneck. Let me give you a push. In this way, you Tom may be able to really become a big man in the fashion circle and be as famous as the old Buddha, Armani and so on.

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"Mr. Li, thank you for your attention. In fact, I have such a career plan. In my plan, I still need to work in Gucci for some years. Then it's time to launch my own brand."

"Ha ha... Tom, it seems that we have a basic understanding. Next, I'll analyze the situation for you. You said that you worked in Gucci for several years, three years, five years and 10 years, but by that time, there will be no room for a new top brand in the fashion circle.

I think you are the top person in the fashion circle. It is very clear that since the 1980s and 1990s, the global fashion industry has entered a stage of mutual annexation, and there have been the rudiments of several fashion luxury giants. A few years later, when several global fashion giants take shape, it will be difficult for new fashion brands to have great development in the future.

It can be said that today's time is the last time period. If you wait for 3 or 5 years after this time point, I think you should understand that if you don't advance, you will retreat. In fact, it's the same for everything. "

Next, according to Li Feng's own understanding, for the next global economic development, the surge of wealth and so on, it shows that the luxury market has entered a prosperous period and so on, which makes Tom Ford nod in his heart.

"Then, Mr. Li, do you have a specific plan?"

Hearing the fashion golden boy opposite raised such a question, Li Feng knew that there was infinite possibility, and a burst of ecstasy filled his heart.

Li Feng understands that in order to truly build a fashion brand, a top figure in the fashion circle is the soul of an enterprise, such as Chanel's Buddha, Armani's George Armani, etc. These are the key figures supporting a fashion giant. In Li Feng's view, Tom in front of him is also such a figure.

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"I do have a plan. I hope to acquire a fashion brand in China and a fashion brand in France. Moreover, if I have a goal, I lack a specific executor.

If it can be achieved, it can immediately form a fashion empire that is beginning to take shape. If you have good suggestions, you can also put forward them.

If you are willing to join, you don't need to invest a penny. You can directly take 10% of the group's shares and serve as the creative director of the group.

If you have spare time, I can support you to set up an independent brand studio under the group, such as launching a fashion brand named after yourself. "

After listening to Li Feng's words, if you don't feel excited, it must be false. However, this involves major events in your future career. Tom also needs to consider carefully. It can't be settled at once. Moreover, even if you really want to leave Gucci, the contract with Gucci is also a problem. There are a lot of things.