Chapter 4 Chapter Four

Am I not fashionable? (2) When I came back from the United States, my mother was quarantined and inspected, so I had to spend weekends with my father and my beautiful stepmother. My stepmother's name is Zhu Yijing, who is as beautiful as a goblin. She used to be one of the flowers in the movie "Five Golden Flowers".I was not pretty at first, so she simply made the situation worse, and often reminded me: "You are really bad-looking, and now your birth is a problem. Hurry up and get married, as long as you have a Beijing hukou, Auntie is for your own good." I don't like to hold grudges, but I will hold grudges with this Zhu Yijing for the rest of my life.

Thank goodness this woman left my father and hung out in New York and still wanted to make movies.I remember one time when Chen Kaige and Wu Tianming, I, and I went to hang out with a Taiwanese director living in New York. They mentioned that Zhu Yijing wanted to be in his film.This may be the most proud thing after Chen Kaige and I got married, and I vented my personal anger fiercely. My idea is suitable for creating a publication for people with an ugly woman complex, but the mainstream is really useless.Now that I think about it, I blush, knowing that I was wrong, knowing that I, the ugly duckling, probably subconsciously finally want to show my hand.After I realized this problem, I tried to change my consciousness. I found a lot of books, all of which were about successful women’s publications. Among them were the autobiographies of two of the most successful female editors in the United States. One was Helen Gurley Brown, and There was one named Diana Vreeland.My intention at the time was to study what I could learn from them, to emulate something.The results of the research are that they are really the kind of women I hate.

Helen Gurley Brown is the lifelong editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan.Her magazine is the highest-selling women's publication in the world.Ms. Helen Gurley grew up in the United States in the 1950s. When she worked as a company secretary, she found that the moral values ​​at that time only allowed men to have fun, while good girls had to follow the rules and wait for the arrival of her prince charming. Miss Brown's Prince Charming is Mr. Brown. After they got married, Brown wrote a very shocking book "Single Girls and Sex".This book is the pioneer of the sexual liberation movement in the 1960s. It openly advocates that girls should get out of the boudoir and experience life, especially sex life, not only to experience, but also to enjoy and use.

After the book was published, she was hired as the editor-in-chief of "Metropolis".A new edition of the magazine came out in 1966, and its cover girl stance remains to this day: exposed breasts and challenging, seductive glances.Since then, "Metropolis" has found an eternal female topic: how women can get men. The practical things in "Metropolis" are very strong, especially the various introductory lessons for girls who have just entered the society. How to find a job, how to change jobs, how not to work; how to find a man, how to keep a man, how to steal a man, how to make others envy me, how not to be jealous of others, how to fire the boss, how not to be fired by the boss, etc.These are all Helen Gurley Brown's own life experience—how to find a good husband and how to reach the pinnacle in her career.

Due to the fame of "Metropolis" in the United States, such women have been collectively referred to as "CosmoGirl". Helen Gurley Brown summed up the spirit of "city girls" as 3F, namely Fun, Fearless, Female. My understanding of these three words is as follows: Fun —— Interesting, fun.A fun woman should probably be a bit like the little swallow in "My Fair Princess", basically a two hundred and five. Fearless - fearless.There is a Chinese saying: The ignorant have no fear.Fearlessness itself is a very terrifying quality, to put it nicely, it is "no matter what".

Female——female.If you use the cover of "Metropolis" to find the feeling of women, the exposed breasts and half-masturbation posture can basically be one word: coquettish. Therefore, the conditions for an "urban girl" are nothing more than: two hundred and five, "no matter what", and showy.This is 3F. Diana Vreeland and Helen Gurley Brown, the complete opposite, were the most unrealistic managing editors.She is a typical aristocratic ugly duckling, but she has tons of Style (style), which suppresses her ugliness and makes her the creator of fashion in the 20th century.

Freeland began her career as a columnist in 1932, offering all sorts of advice for a woman's life, some of which bordered on the utterly whimsical and nonsense.For example, she suggested that women build a spiral staircase at home, and the stair carpet is decorated with favorite Mozart scores.In general, Freeland's proposal would not have been possible without the backing of several generations of family wealth.But the popularity of her column proves that, in addition to reading Brown's "man's manual," women also crave dreams of luxury they can never have.Freeland's genius is that she knows how to create dreams for women.

mpanel(1); In the mid-1960s, Freeland became editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine.Her period at Vogue was her peak years, and she used the influence of Vogue to create a group of fashion photographers, models and costume designers. I also don't really like Freeland because I'm not a snob.I don't like any kind of airs, pretentious behavior, and I don't think a person's appearance can replace her heart, or be more important than her character. However, these are the editor-in-chiefs of the two most authoritative women's publications in the world. Obviously, it is a misunderstanding that I am the editor-in-chief of a mainstream women's publication.