Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 263 - 258 The Owner of the Wedding Dress

By 2015, every new store opening of Y·Y became a carnival for young Americans.

The trend brand Y·Y hadn’t spent a penny on mainstream media for advertising and promotion.

All the marketing was "fan"-driven online and community dissemination.

After the graffiti series was added, Y·Y’s development speed greatly exceeded Yan Ling’s initial expectations.

Of course, in the past three years, it wasn’t just the Y·Y brand that had changed.

Yan Yan went from unknown to becoming the first Chinese designer to receive a Haute Couture title.

Aside from these changes, three other people underwent significant transformations, one of whom was the owner of the black tuxedo.

This change started with Yan Yan’s first Haute Couture wedding dress.

Three years ago, when Yan Yan hadn’t even put on her first Haute Couture show, the "rich customer" who bought the evening gown made of Russian Blue Cat antique fabric introduced her to a wedding dress business two months after seeing her first show.

That was Yan Yan’s first wedding dress order.

The girl getting married wasn’t any regular Haute Couture client; Yan Yan was the first "Haute Couture" designer she met—and the quotes are there because Yan Yan legitimately hadn’t officially received the Haute Couture title at that time.

Yan Yan was a newbie, and so was the girl, who knew very little about Haute Couture.

Apart from it being expensive, she had no other concepts of it—if it wasn’t for her fiancé’s insistence, she might never have come into contact with Haute Couture in her life.

The girl was a top dancer at the Moscow Grand Theater ballet troupe in Russia.

From a child in ’The Nutcracker,’ she danced her way to the Black Swan in ’Swan Lake.’

It was a legendary troupe, and the girl’s growth was equally filled with legend.

This girl, until she was three, wasn’t particularly good at walking and was diagnosed by doctors as having a leg "disability."

Maybe it was because of the leg "disability," but at a very young age, she was abandoned by her own parents.

Luckily, at the age of four, a Russian family adopted her.

Her adoptive parents sent her to learn ballet to correct the leg "disability" that caused her to fall frequently.

What was originally an act of desperation uncovered the girl’s talent for dance.

At eight years old, she was already performing as a "little extra" in ’The Nutcracker’ at the Moscow Grand Theater ballet troupe.

By the time she was 15, the girl had met her "destined" other half.

The boy waited for the girl to grow up, a whole six years.

On her 21st birthday, the boy proposed to her.

This was a beautiful story of a prince and princess.

The boy was nine years older than the girl and was a very successful ballet agent.

He wanted to give the girl the best wedding, the most beautiful wedding dress.

He asked the most experienced "Haute Couture Club Member" he knew—who was also Yan Yan’s first Haute Couture rich customer—which Parisian Haute Couture wedding dresses were well-made.

The owner of the Russian Blue recommended several studios and then casually mentioned Yan Yan.

At that time, Yan Yan hadn’t received the Haute Couture title, so the Russian lady was really just mentioning that she had recently custom-ordered a few pieces from Maison Yan II.

The boy listed all these choices, meticulously handing them over to the girl for her to pick one.

The girl didn’t visit any other places but came straight to Yan Yan.

Her reason was simple; someone who hadn’t officially received a title must be the cheapest.

The girl didn’t think love needed to be represented by an expensive dress.

So although she accepted the boy’s kindness, she didn’t feel entirely at peace with it.

Her fiancé was neither a commercial tycoon nor an oil baron.

The girl thought it was enough for the wedding dress to be pretty; it didn’t necessarily need to be custom-made.

A wedding dress costing hundreds of thousands of euros might be equal to her fiancé’s savings over several years.

The first time the girl came by herself for measurements, she emphasized that there was no need for particularly expensive fabrics or a special design; an ordinary one would do just fine.

Yan Yan, wanting to better design Maison Yan II’s first wedding dress piece, even went to see the girl’s troupe perform once.

The girl was the most beautiful Black Swan Yan Yan had ever seen.

In the dance, in the role, one could see a most heartbreakingly beautiful soul struggling.

The sadness and despair left every audience member profoundly moved.

Certainly, ’Swan Lake’s lead could not be considered the Black Swan, but the Black Swan’s 32 consecutive "Whip" turns on one foot were the measure of a troupe performer’s strength.

On stage, she was an evil Black Swan, striving to destroy the beautiful love between the prince and the princess.

Her dance and her performance were full of shock and empathy.

After seeing ’Swan Lake’ once, Yan Yan was captivated by the girl’s dancing charm.

Yan Yan liked this girl very much.

Aside from her dance, her offstage presence was completely different from her stage persona.

She was a girl who loved to laugh, with a sunny disposition, an angel forever bearing a happy smile.

Just seeing the girl’s face seemingly made one infected with her joy.

Her laugh, like her dancing, had great appeal.

When the girl came to Paris for the second time, her fiancé came with her.

He found Yan Yan in private, saying his princess was the most perfect and must be paired with the best wedding dress, telling Yan Yan not to worry about the budget.

He said the 400,000 euros Haute Couture wedding dress the girl had previously signed for was too "cheap" and could be regarded as just a deposit.

If Yan Yan found more suitable fabric for his fiancée, or had a better design for her, he didn’t want to be constrained by that budget.

He had the capacity to pay for a wedding dress worth one or two million euros; he had initially planned for an extraordinary dress worthy of his girl.

In summary, these two people, one advocating for "cheaper" and the other for exceptional, had completely opposing reasons but were motivated by the same love.

After two conversations, Yan Yan became infected by the deep love between these two people.

If the budget was exceeded, just "quietly" approach the boy.

Yan Yan also felt that beautiful wedding dresses didn’t necessarily have to be exorbitantly priced.

The dress that Yan Yan designed, apart from the unique silk fabric, did not include many luxury and costly accessories.

By the third fitting, Yan Yan had kept the "budget" within the 400,000 euros the girl was comfortable with.

She did not have the 365 diamonds that would shine when the girl danced gracefully inside a seashell.