Bryant Park in Manhattan, New York.

It was Saturday, February 26, the penultimate day of the 2000 Autumn and Winter Fashion Week New York Station, a new fashion brand named Skelton Lee, was in the backstage. The show was about to begin, and when a news came from the front desk, there was a turmoil here.

Simon Westeros is here.

Brand founder Skelton Li quietly went to the front show to say hello to the big guy, and completely confirmed that it was not a rumor. A group of big and small madou in the backstage were all excited. Some went to the dressing table to make up, some wanted to change clothes temporarily, and some couldn't help but want to go to the front desk to contact someone. Unfortunately, they were blocked by the bodyguard team of Wei's family who temporarily took over the show security and returned in a bad mood.

Skelton Lee is a tall and beautiful Asian girl. She is 33 years old. She was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in the UK. After coming to New York for some hard work, she founded her own fashion studio five years ago.

Because personal design concepts combine traditional Eastern culture and modern Western art, it happened that Europe and the United States have caused a craze in China in recent years, and brands have taken advantage of the momentum and were acquired by the current fashion industry giant Melisandra Group last year.

However, if brands such as Gucci and Bulgari under Melisandra are considered "aircraft carriers", the small Skelton Lee can only be considered a small gunboat that can be drained less than a thousand tons in this fashion giant system. Skelton never expected that as we all know, the big man standing behind Melisandra would come to watch his brand show.

Seeing that except for a few supermodels who were supporting the field, they were still calm and eager to try, listening to some personal gossip about a big man, Skelton Lee couldn't help but look forward to it.

In this hot atmosphere, the time came to 4:10 pm, the music started and the show officially began.

Standing at the backstage exit, he personally completed the final inspection. Seeing that the fashion circle "Audrey Hepburn" Paulina Preskova, who was responsible for the opening, came on stage, Skelton quickly turned to Angela Lindelwald, who ranked second, and was nervous, wondering if the big guy would like his design.

As we all know, Simon Westeros is very interested in transformation, but in order to be more in line with the popular aesthetics of the West, Skelton's design this year further compresses oriental elements.

Skelton Lee is a very realistic girl. She thinks that Westerners’ interest in Eastern culture cannot be too long and deep. If you want your brand to grow, you still have to follow the local customs.

For example, the cheongsam element she liked to use in her initial design received great praise. However, the reality is that Western women with generally large skeletons are actually not suitable for cheongsams.

Being so worried about gains and losses is inevitable.

If... maybe one day in the future, your brand can rent a large manor on Long Island as a show, just like CK, and all the models in charge of the show are big names. Instead of now, you can only hold a show with many small brands in a tent in Bryant Park.

I just don’t know if the big guy after the show will invite her, and whether he should go to the appointment, or if he or she wants to go further and maintain a relationship for a long time, how should he deal with his boyfriend who has a good family background and is a senior executive at Citi.

Fortunately, the other party went on a business trip to London this time.

Show front desk hall.

The guests on both sides of the catwalk clearly felt that the models on the stage were a little tilted, but they were not surprised. Everyone already knew that there was a big man sitting somewhere in the guest seat, and even themselves were thinking about how to talk to Simon Westeros later.

After all, it is a small brand. Even though Melisandra was taken over by him, it is not a key target for support. You can imagine the guest lineup.

After Simon entered the stage, the only ones he could know was Sarah Jessica Parker, the heroine of "Sex and the City". Sophia introduced to Simon in advance. The Skelton Lee brand is mainly aimed at urban women, so this TV star who fits the brand's style is obviously the kind of spending money to support the venue.

At the beginning of the show, only three or four models on the catwalk, Simon could name them, including Paulina Preskova, Angela Lindevo, etc.

Of course, because it's just coming here to have fun, it doesn't matter.

I watched the Falcon 9 rocket launch yesterday. Simon spent a night in Florida and flew to New York this morning.

I decided to take a break on the weekend and picked a show to watch it.

In the last row on the left side of the show runway, Simon sat in a corner, next to Grace Krep.

Originally, Sofia Fessi also said she would come together. In the morning, I received a news that there was an urgent matter in Europe to deal with. Regarding Melisandra's Hermes brand recently, Sofia flew to France temporarily.

Over the years, Melisandra's fashion, jewelry, watches, furniture, red wine and other brands have reached more than 80. For the Skelton Lee brand, which is not even a "ship" that can only be said to be a "boat". Simon has never paid attention to it before, so he does not know that the design thinking of founder Skelton Lee changed. The reason why he chose this small brand is indeed an oriental element.

Seeing the design style that was not very consistent with Sophia's previous introduction, my thoughts changed a little, and probably understood the thoughts of coming to say hello to the oriental girl. However, the other party's talent was unquestionable. Even if the oriental elements were compressed, the fashion on the catwalk was still pleasing to the eye. Simon just admired it and did not have any intention of interfering.

Grace was stuck next to Simon, and Sophia's temporary itinerary made her unexpectedly be alone with the little man, and she was very happy.

Originally, while enjoying the feeling of snuggling around him, he quietly admired the really good fashion on the catwalk. When he saw an Asian model obviously slid down his shoulder straps "accidentally" in order to attract someone's attention, his chest was exposed, and half of his chest was exposed. He couldn't help rolling his eyes.

Too clumsy.

However, Grace still tilted her head to Simon's ear: "It's pretty good. I'll call you here tonight, it happens to be from my company."

Simon had a vague impression of the model, as if he was a girl who emerged at the Elite World Elite Model Competition two years ago. After hearing Grace said this, she smiled and turned her head slightly, and asked, "Japanese girl?"

"Well," Grace nodded, remembered and said with a smile: "How come you don't like Japanese girls?"

Simon didn't joke for a reason, but just whispered: "I don't like Japanese very much."

"This is not a problem," Grace said. "I'll give them some instructions to speak English."

Simon subconsciously changed some classic Japanese vocabulary in Ivy's short film to English and continued to perform, but smiled and shook his head: "Forget it."

Grace looked very interested: "Then, let them not speak, wouldn't this be better?"

Simon couldn't help but imagine.

This is the theme night of Sakura Mute Girl?

Um……

Grace glanced at the man's expression and understood, and smiled and said, "Then I'll arrange it for you?"

"Forget it this weekend," Simon said: "Get the time."

Grace writes down.

The fifteen-minute show ended soon.

Simon did not leave early, and waited for the curtain call here to greet the guests and models behind the scenes. Grace also called the Japanese model over and introduced it. The girl's name is Kiyohara Risa, 20 years old, has a petite face, a pure temperament, but has a height of 183cm.

However, thinking about the small movement of the shoulder strap on the catwalk, the girl's pure appearance, which seems to be harmless, is obviously just a disguise.

Having said that, in the past year, the most popular fashion industry has not appeared in any media but has a wide range of gossip, which is that several big models have unexpectedly got pregnant and successfully gave birth to a child because of a super tycoon.

After all, there are six women who can stand low-key, and some people can't help but want to show off. What's more, although one of them gave birth to a child, some changes occurred, and almost caused trouble.

Not mentioning these, just a woman who gave birth to a big child will reach the top in one step.

A step to reach the sky!

Therefore, seeing that a Japanese girl attracted Simon Westeros' special attention because of some small tricks in the circle, the other models present regretted it very much.

I knew it before, I knew it before...

Unfortunately, this opportunity has been missed after all.

After a simple socializing, Simon rejected Paulina Preskova's explicit statement to ask if she had any time in the evening, politely declined Skelton Lee's hint of invitation to have coffee, ignored the resentful expression of the "little fox" Angela Lindelwald, and of course, there were other disappointing gazes, and still took Grace away.

It is almost five o'clock in the afternoon, and there is also Melisandra's official New York Fashion Week party in the evening. She also plans to join in the fun. Before that, it is dinner time.

In a rare world of two people, when returning to the top floor mansion of Westeros Building, Grace pulled Simon to cook with her, which would make her feel more atmosphere.

Simon didn't refuse either.

Both of them are the kind of people who rarely enter the kitchen, so preparing a dinner is more than enough.

After driving away other waitresses who wanted to help, and discussed it, Grace took out the ingredients from the refrigerator and planned to make a cream mushroom soup. While saying to Simon, who was processing a piece of beef, she said: "I have seen reports about your Rocket Company. I'm very curious. The recycling technology seems to be very powerful, but it actually doesn't seem to be very useful?"

Simon sliced ​​the beef, took the seasoning next to it and started marinating it. Hearing this, he explained casually: "Take yesterday's Falcon 9 as an example. The rocket with the same load capacity, other aerospace companies quoted around 100 million US dollars, and we can make the cost within 50 million..."

Grace interrupted: "I have seen all of these in the news. I also know that if we can achieve mature multiple recycling, the cost of Falcon 9 can be reduced to less than 10 million or even 5 million, and it may even cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per launch in the future. The problem is, in terms of global considerations, does this world require so many rocket launches? Just like the federal space shuttle, which was originally designed to launch 30 times a year, but now it may not even have three times a year?"

When Simon heard Grace say it, he realized that the woman obviously did a lot of homework.

After a smile, Simon waited for Grace to finish and said, "The space shuttle was marginalized. The Challenger incident was a cause, but the key was the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the confrontation between the East and the West disappeared, and the Federation and many other countries in the world lost the motivation to continue to explore the limits of space and pursue the technological limits. I told you about this. The 3G plan is to pursue the continuation of the technological limits. For the 3G plan, perhaps I have my own selfish intentions, but if it can be successful, it will definitely be of great benefit to mankind. Otherwise, when the existing technological productivity cannot meet the continuous demand for human resources, the world will only reincarnate in the cycle of war, recovery, war again, and even the complete self-destruction of mankind, just like thousands of years in the past."

Grace added water to the soup pot, turned on the heat, and began to clean the mushrooms that had just been taken out of the refrigerator. This time she did not interrupt, nodded and smiled: "So, let's talk about Rockets, when the launch cost of a heavy rocket dropped to millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, what are you going to do?"

Simon didn't need to think about it and quickly said: "I'm already planning. The first step is to build a space city, the type of 10,000 tons, instead of the 400 tons of the International Space Station in recent years."

Grace paused for a moment, obviously surprised, and looked at the man next to her: "The budget of the 400-ton International Space Station is 50 billion US dollars. Are you planning to spend 1 trillion US dollars in a space city of 10,000-ton?"

Simon shook his head: "The International Space Station's $50 billion budget is just the initial plan. According to the investment trend officially implemented in the past two years, $100 billion in the future may not be enough. However, the International Space Station's budget is more blunt, and there is too much waste of money. Just like the Heavy Falcon 9 we used to experiment this time, why does other space companies launch a launch vehicle of the same size cost hundreds of millions of dollars? Because there are too many stakeholders to suck blood from it, and on my side, just like SpaeX's parts production as much as possible, the planned Space City, even if it cannot avoid external procurement, I will definitely not place it to thousands of suppliers around the world to do it. This can save a large part of the cost."

In Simon's view, the construction cost of the International Space Station is as heavy as the US military expenditure.

One of the most direct evidence is that there was a set of data in China's space station later, which may be inaccurate, but it was enough to make a comparison. The International Space Station cost a total of US$160 billion, equivalent to about RMB 1200 billion. Even if the designed volume of China's space station is only 60 tons, it only costs about RMB 50 billion for decades. Even if the subsequent operation and maintenance costs are added, 100 billion is still less than a fraction of the International Space Station.

Why?

The key is that there are too many stakeholders from the International Space Station that pluck hair and suck blood.

This is not even the worst.

Later, the situation further evolved into that NASA kept spending money, and the contractor collected the money, but it was impossible to do it after one operation.

Have to add more money!

As for whether you can make things happen if you spend more money?

I can't guarantee this, after all, there is a great risk in scientific research.

In fact, to put it bluntly, all kinds of stakeholders are too lazy to hide it.

So the US government had to hand over some projects to emerging private companies like SpaeX that can still do things.
Chapter completed!