After the first year, it was so unrefined that they could not continue because of complaints from people. Then, they rushed through to complete the second one before they stopped altogether.
Sophia was only someone that sold dog collars and yet she dared to host a fashion week; it was an embarrassment.
“Since they want to outdo us at the fashion week, let’s just wait and see!” Henry laughed.
Shortly after, the Ronney Group announced that the world-renowned Ronney Fashion Week fall/winter exhibition would be held in Cethos next year.
Bayside Fashion Week, hosted by JNS Group, was going to take place in February next year. Their fashion week was also going to happen in the same month!
The announcement that Ronney Fashion Week was going to take place in Cethos shook the global fashion industry. It was the first time in a hundred years that the Ronney Fashion Week was going to happen outside of Ronney City!
It seemed like the Ronney Group had their eyes on the Cethosian market and were set on taking over it.
After all, it was a country that took up one-fifth of the world’s population. Who wouldn’t covet it?
The news of the Ronney Fashion Group taking place in Cethos buried news of the Bayside Fashion Week in an instant. The latter did not stand a chance against the former.
A sense of fear grew in the Cethosian fashion industry.
Fashion was a hobby for the rich. Cethos overcame poverty less than three decades ago and had just begun developing its fashion industry and luxury goods. They started late and were slow to advance. Their fashion industry was still considered a newborn baby. How could they compare to the Ronney Group’s two-century-old fashion empire?
Wasn’t Bayside Fashion Week just asking to be made fun of?
They had been around for two centuries. While they were already in fashion, Cethos was still being bombarded by foreign countries. Innocent people were massacred, the people could never fill up their tummies, and it was hard to survive. Fashion was far from a priority!
Cooper was very doubtful.
“Darling, do you really want to participate in fashion week?”
Sophia was so deeply buried in work these days that he only ever saw her at the dinner table. When she returned home that day, he decided to ask her right away.
“Yes, Dad. Why?” she replied as she was stuffing food in her mouth.
Cooper frowned.
He was not opposed to it, but neither the Mitchell Family nor the Michel Family had the talent for fashion.
The Mitchells used to work as diplomats, then they ventured into electronics later on. On the other hand, the Michel Family worked in creating the latest technologies, munitions, medicine, as well as dabbled in the mining industry, but they had never done fashion before. They did produce a couple of luxury goods. Did the gold phone count?
If Sophia had chosen one of the fields that Cooper was familiar with, he could still help her out when she needed it, but fashion was not a field that Linus or Cooper was familiar with.
Not to mention, she was facing the Yard Family in their expertise. She was really overestimating her own strength!
Michael was also doubtful.
He had the resources for fashion, but even if he brought them over, would Sophia know what to do with them?
She had even set the scale this big. If she failed in surpassing the Ronney Group, wouldn’t she end up making a fool of herself?
Money was a minor issue. Her family had mineral deposits which were the source of their financial income. Once they used all their money, they simply had to dig out some more.
Clink! In another small unknown bar at midnight, Sophia and Lucy brought their wine glasses together.
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