Fashion Genius Collects Stars - Chapter 126



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Episode 126 anticipation

One day, the music video that was released ahead of School Zone’s full-fledged comeback was gaining more and more popularity.

I was suddenly getting yelled at by Millif.

– No, how can a person be like that? I was really hurt.

“No. So what’s going on? I’ve been asking questions since a while ago, but you haven’t answered.”

– How can you say that!

“You have to talk to me to know!”

– If I say it with my own mouth! It’s so embarrassing?!

I was speechless for a moment.

No. What the hell is this?

What’s so embarrassing about that?

For a moment, I wondered if I had misunderstood the English.

Lately, I’ve had more opportunities to communicate with foreigners, and I’ve been studying English hard by talking to Millif and Ellison on the phone. Thanks to that, I can now have everyday conversations without an interpreter… … But did I really understand it correctly?

“You’re embarrassed? No. I really don’t understand. You’re upset. You’re hurt. But you’re embarrassed to say it?”

What? Is there something like that between us?

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with an answer, so I kept my mouth shut. After a long silence, Millif’s answer came back.

He said this in a crawling voice.

– That, that. You know. That.

“What is that?”

– That. Carrying it around like this.

“huh?”

– No. Carry it. Wear it on your back.

“huh?”

– Eww! Bags! I mean bags! Why do you only make bags for the kids in the school zone! Make one for me too! Me too! Make one for me too! I wish I had a bag with my name on it! I wish Yongwon would make one for me!

Millipya… … What does this mean?

“So. You’re upset because of the school zone bag project?”

The world’s greatest star?

The walking economy effect, where one move shakes up America?

I tried hard to swallow my words.

– … … .

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

“… … .”

I too joined in the silence.

In the end, it was Millif who lost.

– … … That’s why I told you. I was embarrassed to say it myself.

“Milf. Do you want my bag that much?”

When I asked casually, Millip’s voice suddenly changed.

The voice that had been small with embarrassment and shame suddenly became lively and proud.

– No. You have to speak properly.

“huh?”

– It’s not that I want your bag. Yongwon, you want to collaborate with me. You want to increase your name value by collaborating with a world-class superstar.

“… … You said it with your own mouth earlier, didn’t you? You said you wanted me to make it for you.”

– Me? Oh, we’re friends. If you make it, I’ll carry it. Something like that.

“You said you were hurt? You said you were upset?”

– … … Yongwon.

“huh?”

– Let’s just move on, okay?

Millif made a soft threat.

I tried hard to suppress the laughter that was creeping out without me knowing.

“Big. Ahem.”

He cleared his throat with a cough.

“Milliph.”

– huh?

“When goes out into the world later, I’ll ask you first. Please take good care of it then.”

– ……later?

“We’re still busy establishing our base in South Korea. There’s nothing we can do. Isn’t School Zone doing better than Millif in Korea?”

– Well! I might do it later when I’m not busy! But I might be busy!

iced coffee.

Why is this older sister so cute?

He’s three years older than me.

You’re not some 7 year old kid.

“Yes. Yes. I will buy you some delicious food and lobby very hard, so please take care of me.”

– Hmm. Well, I’ll look at it then and decide.

There was laughter and playfulness in Millif’s voice too.

– Then, first of all, do well on the School Zone Bag Project. Practice well with it so that you can do better when we collaborate.

“Yes. Yes. Of course.”

After chatting with Millif like that, I hung up the phone.

“View your ideal type.”

And while I was talking to Millie, I took a look at her ideal type list.

What bag would suit her best?

The background changes every time you change the conditions. The clothes change. The expressions change. The colors and bags change.

As I was happily observing the shape, a thought suddenly occurred to me.

“Ah… … I want to bring all of these into reality.”

It was a nervous thrill.

Living in this world is sometimes like waiting for a really interesting drama or movie.

Sometimes it feels like the world is changing so fast that it’s hard to keep up, but when you become obsessed with one field and delve into it like crazy, there are times when it feels too shallow and boring.

Whether it’s an anime, a drama, or a webtoon, if you get really into it and watch it for a long time, you’ll soon run out of things to watch.

The pace at which new releases come out is too slow, and there are too few that I like.

An innovative work that allows you to feel the excitement you felt for the first time comes out only once every few years.

Fashion feels a bit like that to me these days.

When I first entered this field, fashion seemed like such a big, wide, and infinite world to me. When I saw the countless products that came out every season, I even thought that I would never be able to understand it all even if I spent my whole life.

But now I was feeling anxious.

‘There are so many products coming out, but there are very few that can be said to be new! It is very rare to find a product that has something that makes your heart beat!’

That’s why I’m getting anxious.

Because I feel like I can provide something new to this world.

Because I wanted to quickly bring out these wonderful things I saw in my ‘Ideal Type’ and show them to people.

However, no matter how quickly I designed, it inevitably took time to create the actual product.

Finding and securing fabric, finding and assigning sewing factories, marketing… … time flew by.

In the past, I even looked forward to that time excitedly, but these days, I feel both excited and miserable.

Hurry up. I want to get it out into the world sooner. There are still so many things I want to show!

“Phew… … .”

I took a deep breath and calmed my seething emotions.

It wasn’t something that could be solved by being impatient.

okay.

Let’s change our thinking.

If there is a limit to the number of designs that can be released in a year, then let’s improve their quality.

Let’s create a powerful design that encapsulates the things I want to show, and that is filled with only the essence of ‘newness’ that I feel.

With that thought in mind, I looked down at the design sketches for the School Zone Bag Project.

The sketch I’ve been working hard on until now.

But now that I look at it, it seems to have many shortcomings.

Although it was true that the ability to view ideal types was a very fraudulent ability, handling it well was a problem of another level.

I didn’t know it at first, but now I think I know.

To use a metaphor, using this ability was similar to looking into the subconscious of countless people and tracing its flow and branches.

People’s ‘ideal types’ have constantly changed over time and across regions.

The change seemed small, but it never stopped.

Even if you look at your ideal type under the same conditions, the feeling you get from yesterday, today, and tomorrow will be slightly different.

If you keep watching it, you can see a certain flow.

Some ideals last a long time, while others shine briefly and then quickly disappear.

Some ideal types are fresh, while others are familiar.

So the way to deal with this well was not to simply copy the visible ideal type.

The best part was going back and forth through countless ideal types, finding the flow within them, and either expanding that flow into my work or beating it.

Reading the world and creating the future through ‘Ideal Type Reading’ is done with my own hands.

When I think about that, my heart starts pounding so hard I can’t stand it.

hurry.

I want to show you soon.

hurry.

I want to create a new future.

Square, square, square.

After throwing away all the design sketches I had drawn, I picked up my pen in front of a blank piece of paper again.

And erase it.

And again, and again, erase.

Rather than a fleeting fad, I immersed myself in design, forgetting about the sweat on my nose, to create a bag that would last a long time with the school zone.

* * *

Numerous sketches pass by in the video.

Some sketches only have a drawing of the bag, while others include a drawing of a woman carrying it.

Sometimes, sketches were animated next to photographs of the women who modeled them.

Countless sketches of each of the five members of School Zone, drawn and discarded.

– I’d like it to be a little more modest than this.

– More plainly?

– Yes. I wanted a bag that I could always carry around. Something that wasn’t too flashy, but that I grew fond of the more I looked at it. Hmm. I did some research on references.

– Aha. I think I know what you mean. How about this?

– Oh! Great! As expected from PD-nim!

School Zone members looked at the sketches drawn and gave feedback, adding their own opinions.

In this way, the design gradually took shape, reflecting each and every person’s opinion.

At some point, there was no feedback, only admiration.

– Oh my! PD! Isn’t this bag so pretty?

– PD. I. I’ll do it like this.

But Lee Yong-won didn’t accept it.

– Ah. That. No. It’s a bit disappointing. It’s a popular design these days, but I don’t think it will become a classic.

– But I really like it.

– No. I’ll design something better for you.

– No. I want it to be exactly like this! Without touching anything here! Exactly! Can’t you just make it exactly like this?

– No. I don’t like it. I’ll draw it again.

– Kkaaaak!

Just as Goryeo celadon craftsmen mercilessly smashed their ceramics, sketches were drawn, discarded, and discarded again, over and over again.

In a matter of hours, the full trash can is emptied, then filled again, then emptied again. Drawn and thrown away, drawn and thrown away.

In this way, the years of hard work that Lee Yong-won put into making the School Zone collaboration bag were captured in the video.

Of course, this was the credit of YouTube manager Lee Hwi-ya and filming manager Lee Ji-min.

The videos, which were uploaded in a series format over several episodes, not only faithfully captured the progress of one project, but also included aspects of the school zone that are rarely seen in entertainment shows, and above all, the professional side of Lee Yong-won constantly researching design and the serious side of Lee Hwi-ya learning it, creating quite a big response.

– Isn’t this design so pretty?

– Well, it’s a shame to throw it away.

– What kind of masterpiece are you trying to create by throwing away something like that?

– If something weird comes out like this, it’ll be funny.

– So when will the bag come out?

The comeback of School Zone and the collaboration bag of .

Interest in both was heating up beneath the surface.