C54 Declaration against Violence

The other designers had already started cutting them all, she had only just started drawing the picture, and the materials beside her were simply too limited, she could not even make a single color, and was completely in a grey state.

Seeing that Ning Caier was a little anxious, he unavoidably stood up from her chair, regretting letting her participate in this kind of competition. She finally regained some of her confidence, he was afraid that this competition would beat her back to her original form.

Ning Caier seemed to become anxious because of this torturous question. She actually rolled the gray and hazy wallpaper into a ball and then forcefully stepped on it a few times. The wallpaper that was already dirty, was now more like a piece of scrap paper that was picked up from a trash can.

Even the other designers couldn't help but look over. They felt that Ning Caier was giving up on herself, and would rather directly leave the competition this way, in case she didn't have any clothes to wear when the time came.

"Ouyang, your designer is very talented. She should be able to win now." When no one thought that Ning Caier would win, Mike suddenly said something very strange. He actually thought that it was more likely that they would win using those crumpled and dirty papers, "If it was me, I would also use this method."

Mike understood Ning Caier's way of thinking. Unconventional competition was a competition for innovation, so as long as her way of thinking was special, there was a high chance of winning. Moreover, she had even chosen a topic that was extremely controversial.

"Can you tell me more?" Ouyang Jue admired the mutual understanding between Mike and Ning Caier, but he really couldn't understand it this time. If his designer had told him that he could make clothes out of a crumpled piece of paper, he definitely would have thrown him out.

"Let's go out and talk. We'll come back later to see the results." When Mike saw Ning Caier pick up a red marker, he knew that his guess was not wrong, so he took the initiative to ask Ouyang Jue to have a chat. He was not really interested in entering Sky Ox City, but he was looking forward to working with Ning Caier, the newbie.

"Why did she choose Cai'er? She still doesn't have any works of her own."

Ouyang Jue knew that Mike and Ning Caier got along really well at first sight. Their designs seemed to work together, but Ouyang Jue was afraid that Mike would fall in love with her at first sight.

"She can understand what I designed, that's what's important. If she resigns from TianAo, I'll let her be my assistant." Mike had an extremely high opinion of Ning Caier, and hated him for being late. Moreover, this designer, who was completely uninterested in other things, had actually talked about the condition of the trade with Ouyang Jue.

"I know that you want to make her popular. For a rookie in your country, it's not easy to get a place in the design field. But if you appear abroad and then return to our country, the result will be very different."

Mike wanted to design a mini-series of clothes with Ning Caier for charitable fundraising, mainly for anti-domestic violence organizations, to give shelter to young women who had lost their homes and income.

However, he did not have any sales channels, so he needed Ouyang Jue's help. In terms of publicity, tying Ning Caier together with a designer who had some sense of topic was much better than a newbie like her who didn't have anything.

"This matter is worth considering. I will arrange for someone to write out a proposal and analyze the feasibility of this matter."

Domestic violence had always been a topic of concern to the world. If this concept was used well, not only would it win Ning Caier's favor, it could also raise the status of Heavenly Ao within the global brands. However, Ouyang Jue did not know if he would be able to design this concept's apparel.

"She can." Mike was very sure that although the final result of the competition had not yet been decided, he could already guess the theme of Ning Caier's clothes.

Her design was very simple, it was just a tight-fitting dress that wrapped around the butt. However, at the edge of the footprints, she had used a red marker to draw out a red mark, as if she had purposely made this blood stain.

A big English word was written on the chest of the dress: "Resistance!"

"It looks like we even have a themed shirt. If this dress is made out of real cloth, it can become part of this mini-series, and I like the idea. The footprints don't only represent violence, they also represent humiliation, and it will let people know that not only violence makes the body bleed, but also humiliation. "And those wrinkles on the skirt, represent the survival of those who suffered from domestic violence. It's very realistic."

Mike explained the theme that Ning Caier wanted to express very well, and the evaluators on the side were all satisfied with the explanation. They all thought that this was a dress that would cause a lot of trouble, so they decided to write Mike's words beside the photo, so that more people would pay attention to this matter.

"It's almost over in half an hour. Aren't you going to stay?"

Seeing that Mike already had plans to leave, Ouyang Jue quickly stopped him. He hoped that he could help Ning Caier a little, or at least analyze a few different types of competitions, letting him know where to start to raise Ning Caier's visibility.

"I don't need to be here. The photographer already knows what to do." Mike didn't wait until the competition was over. It was too late for him to look at the big picture. All he had to do was think about how to design the rest of the clothes in the series.

When the clock struck eleven, all the designers cleaned up their workstations and packed their tools into their bags before stuffing their bodies into the clothes made of wallpaper. Ning Caier dressed carefully, afraid that she would break these papers and waste all her effort.

After busying themselves for an entire day, they finally arrived at the final step of the competition. Setting up their makeup and taking pictures, the judges and staff had already decided to win in their hearts, those who entered the top three were the female warriors with blades who made the wallpaper into high-difficulty sculptures, the brides who made the wedding gowns using pure white hard wallpaper and red wolfberry fruits, and the clothes that Ning Caier wore to counter violence as the main theme.

Therefore, the photographer took extra care when taking photos. He took dozens of photos from different angles, and chose the one that best represented the theme of the photos and posted them onto the website.

"How was your conversation with Mike? Eight hours. It must have been settled, right?"

Ning Caier had thrown out a lot of questions right after the competition ended. If Ouyang Jue couldn't even take advantage of such a good opportunity, then even if she managed to buy half an hour of negotiation time, it would be useless.

"I did indeed talk about it, but I don't know the results yet. You should sleep for a while. You must be exhausted after making the clothes for eight hours."

"I didn't expect you to be such a good model. When we get back, let's take a set of pictures of Tian Ao's own clothes."

Ouyang Jue felt that Ning Caier's ability to express herself was extremely strong, and her body was also suitable to be a plane model. However, when he turned around, Ning Caier was already exhausted and had fallen asleep, so in order to win the competition, she didn't eat for a whole 8 hours, afraid that she would miss her production time.

However, Ning Caier still had some consciousness, she raised her hand and patted Ouyang Jue's knee, "Don't worry, I will definitely win, I'll help you settle that Mike."

Although she could not announce Ning Caier as the champion immediately due to the competition rules, many of the media had already invited them to interview her.

Mike even called Ouyang Jue early in the morning. He said that he had already contacted some anti-violence organizations, and they hoped that the clothes that Ning Caier had designed could be mass-produced.

"Ouyang, you should think about the cooperation proposal I told you about yesterday. Now is a very good time for you to use the media to spread the news. There will definitely be more people paying attention to our public service."

In the past, it was Ouyang Jue who had pursued him to make a phone call. But now, he was even more active than Ouyang Jue, unexpectedly he had already started preparing for this public service, and now there were many manufacturers that were willing to pay the price to produce the clothes that Ning Caier had designed, as long as Ouyang Jue was willing to give them to them.

"I understand. I will bring Cai'er there now."

Ouyang Jue did not want to waste time, after the results were announced tonight, Ning Caier's design and her own introduction would appear in the headlines of the design page.

He knew that the best thing to do now was to put on clothes overnight and publish them when the media interviewed tomorrow, so that their public service activities could be completed in one go and the best results could be obtained. But this required Ning Caier and Mike to draw the blueprints out by tonight.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

She definitely could not miss such a good opportunity. Therefore, she did her best to imitate Mike's binding style, hoping that their designs would fuse together. However, at the same time, because she was a female designer, her binding looked a little gentler.

Ning Caier designed a short jacket with a leather frame shaped like the upper half of the model's body, and the lower half was made out of a pair of long white pants. This kind of outfit could highlight a female's figure, and at the same time, the inside of the jacket had a very gorgeous inner lining.

"This design is very good. There's no need to modify it. You can directly create a sample shirt."

After looking at Ning Caier's design, Mike handed the blueprint over to the tailor in the shop. He was more experienced in choosing materials compared to Ning Caier, so the outer coat he chose was very soft, it was a kind of slightly transparent fabric, and after wearing it, it could slightly reveal the color of his skin.

As for the leather, he chose a black leather with a very high hardness. These leather pieces were thinner than Ning Caier's blueprints, this way they could better highlight the feeling of bones. The whole jacket's shape looked like a person's breastbone, which could make the model's waist look even more slender.