Chapter 242： housewarming dinner

The moon is cold and cold, and it spreads out throughout the room through the entire floor-to-ceiling glass wall, like mercury pouring down to the ground. However, the bright lights in the room shrouded the room, like the water moonlight and the warm yellow light melding together, less loneliness and coolness, but became hazy and soft.

No. 11 Prince Street has been completely covered at night, and the lights from street lamps and restaurants and shops make the night of Prince Street lively and warm but not noisy. In the space on the third floor near the balcony, there is a table of the Eight Immortals, and five people sit around the table, talking and laughing, which is very pleasant.

"Evan, take all the salad left over." Anne Hathaway pointed to the large glass bowl by her hand, and now only the bottom of the salad was left.

"Man, my stomach is about to burst, and I won't sleep at night if I eat it again." Evan Yibel mō mō mō his slightly bulging belly, and he really ate too much tonight. "You don't have to because of this. If it’s the food you make, sell it vigorously. In fact, Salad can’t be considered a food at all, it’s the salad dressing that tastes good.”

Listening to Evan Bell's ridicule, Anne Hathaway pursed her lips and glared angrily, danced her fist at Evan Bell, and then turned to look at Teddy Bell. Without waiting for Anne Hathaway to say anything, Frank James next to him said with a smile, "Teddy, do you still need it? If not, just right, I still need some salad."

Teddy Bell immediately gave a relieved smirk and raised his hands to show that he didn't mind at all. Frank James stretched out his right hand to take the glass basin from Anne Hathaway's hand.

When Anne-Hathaway handed over the basin, she first glared at Teddy-Bell, and Teddy-Bell also smiled embarrassedly. Anne Hathaway then turned her head and grimaced proudly at Evan Bell. The subtext was: You can't eat, there are many people you like.

"Catherine, how was the conversation with the factory this afternoon?" Evan Bell still looked at Anne Hathaway with a smile, but the words came to Catherine Bell. Knowing that Evan Bell was changing the subject, but Anne Hathaway was not easy to interrupt. After all, it was a serious business. As a result, she was so angry that her teeth were itchy, her eyes were round and round, and her feet under the table were still straight forward. Kicked dumbly.

Tired and didn't kick Evan Bell, Frank James made a sound of "Ah..."

Anne-Hathaway hurriedly lowered her head, pretending she didn't understand what was going on. But Evan Bell laughed and winked at Anne Hathaway. Anne Hathaway raised her eyes secretly, and immediately saw Evan Bell's narrow eyes, the meaning couldn't be more obvious: It was a straight kick, but it was able to kick sideways to Frank James, and the footwork was really good . The trouble made Anne Hathaway grit her teeth again.

Watching Anne-Hathaway and Evan-Bell sparring together, Catherine-Bell has long been taken aback, and she has been slapsticking like this all these years.

Katherine Bell also had a strong smile on her face, but she answered the question from her younger son, "Affected by September 11, one-third of the garment processing factories in the lower city have closed down, so they can stay. The situation is not good either." Anne-Hathaway also stopped fighting with Evan-Bell, and still had to concentrate when talking about business. Anne-Hathaway glared at Evan-Bell for the last time, and attacked again with her foot, this time directly kicking Evan-Bell. Seeing Evan-Bell winking there, Anne-Hathaway laughed happily. , lù showed a satisfied expression.

"Our studio has just started, and the order volume will definitely not be too large. The factory was basically unwilling to accept it before." Catherine Bell put down the fork in her hand, picked up the red wine glass in front of her, and shook it gently for two times. . Today is a housewarming dinner, so Teddy Bell opened a bottle of red wine. "However, the situation is different now. Most of the factories I've visited are willing to take our orders. After all, no matter how small an order is, it's still an income. Just as you know, I've been looking at these factories recently, mainly to check the quality. But at present, the quality is good, the price is high, and because we are a small order, the labor cost has risen again: the price is moderate, but the quality is average, and because of the small order, it is delayed in time."

It seems that in terms of contacting the factory, the progress is not very smooth.

This was actually long expected by Evan Bell. Labor costs are all too familiar to Chinese people. The world's largest concentration of cheap labor is in Asia, especially in countries such as China and India. Now, Catherine Bell has to find a suitable garment processing factory near New York, and the cost must not be reduced.

"Have you ever thought that we don't make clothes in batches, we start with hand tailoring.

"Recently, I encountered obstacles in contacting the factory. Although Evan Bell did not directly take over, but Teddy Bell and Frank James have talked to him before and after, so he also thought a lot.

Hearing Evan Bell's proposal, Frank James raised his head with bright eyes, as if he couldn't support this proposal any more. "Yes, I think so too. Why don't we start with hand-tailoring? Like Like Savile Row in London, we only accept pre-orders for our tailor-made clothes. We make every set by hand. After the name of Eleven Design has spread, we will open a branch brand, designed by Catherine, contact us Factory mass production."

Speaking of the field he was familiar with, Frank James seemed a little excited, but he found that everyone at the table seemed to be silent: it was normal for everyone to be quiet and listen to him at this time, but it was too silent, but it was a little abnormal.

Evan Bell and Teddy Bell did not look at Katherine Bell when they heard the term "Saville Row", the brothers just looked at each other. From childhood to adulthood, the two brothers were very sensible. They never asked about their father, nor their grandparents. They seldom mentioned their previous life in London. Because they knew that if they wanted to say something, Catherine Bell would say it herself. Therefore, the two brothers are still not sure what kind of relationship Catherine Bell has with Savile Row.

Today, unknowingly, it was brought up by Frank James. Of course, there is nothing wrong with those who don't know. Frank James can't be blamed. Even Anne Hathaway didn't notice something was wrong.

Out of the corner of Evan Bell's eyes, she saw that Catherine Bell's right hand holding the red wine glass tightened slightly, and the muscles of her forearm contracted a little, and then loosened. and then see,

Catherine Bell elegantly and calmly brought the red wine glass to her lips and took a sip.

"But there are two problems here. First, I am the only hand tailor. There are at least three master tailors in a shop on Savile Row, and there are more than a dozen apprentices." Catherine Bell saw Frank James He paused and took over the topic.

She mentioned the situation in Savile Row quite naturally, without too many exceptions, but he did know the situation inside Savile Row very well. "The second brand branch is opened. The factory is fine, but the promotion is a problem. After all, if you want to start with handicraft, then the brand is another field. As far as I know, the century-old store on Savile Row can be used from beginning to end. They are all marked by handmade suits, and have not set foot in the field of brand mass production."

"It's really two fields, one is a tailor who focuses on craftsmanship, and the other is a designer who focuses on inspiration." Evan Bell took over the topic of Catherine Bell, but he did not look at his mother, but at Frank As soon as James said these words, it is obvious that Frank James and Evan Bell have similar ideas, but Frank James has just joined Eleven Studio and can't grasp the degree of opinion, so he has not said it. Today, Evan-Bell threw a brick at the door and let Frank James play. "But I think, these two fields are not incompatible, aren't they?"

Frank-James nodded. Since he is now a member of Studio Eleven, he must do his best. He also put down the knife and fork in his hand and said seriously, "If the early stage If we plan to take the hand-made route, then apprentices must be recruited. Although we only have Catherine as a professional tailor, considering that we are not very famous in the early stage, there will not be too many customers who come to our door. Even if there are many customers, we can also create gods. Control the number of orders." In fact, the people who will order handmade suits are all upper-class people, and a suit ranges from 300 to 3,000 English. Most of these upper-level people have fixed suit sewing shops. It takes a process to approve the eleven design, and the number of people who will come to book is definitely not large.

"As for the brand branch, Catherine is the designer. We take the high-end ready-to-wear route. Even if mass production is limited, we still focus on the upper-level route. In this way, the influence of the word-of-mouth on hand-tailors can be greatly reduced." Frank James is indeed a professional People think more comprehensively than Evan Bell and Teddy Bell.

Katherine Bell took another sip of red wine seemed to think about it for a while, and then said, "Well, let's not rush to contact the factory first, we can make a long-term plan for this matter. We eleven design Start with semi-custom and full-custom, and then recruit apprentices while making ready-to-wear. As for opening a brand branch, we will talk about it when the time comes.”

There are generally three types of suits produced by Savile Row: ready-to-wear, semi-custom, and full-custom.

Ready-to-wear refers to the ready-to-wear garments that are directly made and sold by tailor shops according to their own version, but they are different from the ready-to-wear Xilou on the market, which are still hand-made.

Semi-custom means that the customer selects a set of ready-to-wear, and then the tailor modifies it according to the customer's body shape. The price of semi-custom is about double that of ready-to-wear.

The final full customization is the essence of Savile Row. It is completely tailor-made, and the whole process is hand-made, with three tries and adjustments in the middle, and it takes about three months before and after. The price of a full custom is almost three times that of a semi-custom.

Therefore, as Catherine Bell said, starting from semi-custom and full-customization is the consideration, including the consideration of the number of orders and time: after the apprentices are enough, they will start making ready-made garments by hand in batches, and the eleven design will be completely Build it up. ! .