I have written a TVB dress up article before, many newspaper friends are naming and want to see more, so recently borrowed the reason of "writing for everyone" and blatantly read "Pearlescent Treasure" again.
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Speaking of the strong cast and unprecedented production costs, it is really necessary to move out of 2008's "Pearl", everyone knows that TVB has always had a limited budget for filming, and can save money, but "Pearl" can really fly to Thailand, France, Italy, Lhasa, Shanghai, Qingdao, Macao for filming, using all kinds of luxury cars, yachts, planes, jewelry... Trying to restore the real high society, filming for a whole year, it is said that the year spent a hundred million filming costs, saying that "the ceiling of TVB giant dramas" is not too much.
Here is a small gossip of the year, even so "broken fees", there are also celebrities at that time said that the "two richest" Chen Hao and Lin Boyi rowing in the play is very dramatic, the original words are like this: "My family has several yachts, not such ordinary sailing ships." As for the shoes full of cabinets, we only stocked fur and put them in the refrigerator on ice."
Hahahaha! I don't know what you think, the editor just thinks that it is really nostalgic to be able to publish some personal feelings like this, and everyone looks at the days that have passed with a smile. Now, don't say that this kind of drama is rare, and it is rare for someone to dare to "ridicule" like this without being scolded.
Keep talking back....
Today's article we will not lead you to revisit the plot, it is better to take this opportunity to turn it out again! It's really strange, when I watched this drama when I was a child, I only thought that there were many characters, good clothes, and the feelings of the second sister (Played by Li Zi) and Terrence (played by Chen Hao) were very romantic, and I remembered some very superficial things, but now I take it out to relive it, and I feel more of the waves under the calm water. Just want to sigh: human nature is too complicated, there is no absolute right and wrong.
Today we still want to talk about dressing:
By the way, let's also talk about the new drama "Family Glory". To tell the truth, the "endurance" time of the editor of this drama is 4 minutes and 46 seconds. I really can't watch it, not because I miss the old or "old antique", but when I see the lights and the mirror at the beginning of the play, I know that this is not the TVB. No matter how familiar the lead actor is, the painting style is not right.
Like what:
At the beginning of "Family Glory", the two brides are making up their hair, and the skirt is laid out like this?
Rich, century wedding, after these two keywords laid the groundwork, the lens to give the "jewelry", 🙄 this necklace 300 yuan can not be more.
It's not as good as a casual set of diamond jewelry when we celebrate Taiping!
Look at the wedding 👇 of Little Sister (Cai Shaofen) and He Feng (Yue Hua).
Chinese and Western two ceremonies, in the tradition, pomp, etiquette, the details are not bugs.
Rich people get married, and the number of this jewelry is still close!
But the wonderful thing is that in such a scene, the most eye-catching thing is really not those exaggerated jewelry and clothes, but the delicate interpersonal relationship between each other.
What is seen is that the wonderful relationship between Kang Tai, who was "promoted" in the social arena by virtue of her little sister's marriage, and "Song Tai", the head of the original rich wife, seems to have foreshadowed that the Kang family would take over her position as a social center in the future.
On that day, in order to match the theme of "Chinese style", the rich wives all attended in the cheongsam style, and the younger generation could not wear the qipao and wear a Western-style small dress
Even Melissa, the eldest sister of the PR industry, is also wearing an emerald green, heavy-duty embroidered cheongsam that is late, although it is late, although it is an important man in his heart to marry his wife, the façade kung fu must also be done enough. Respect the Dress code of the wedding, and be in better shape. It is such a detail that can show that the design of the plot of this drama is both a reference to real life and the thickness of the characters.
So have you found that even if the costumes and scenes are exaggerated, they are meant to serve the plot and the story, not to exaggerate for the sake of exaggeration. The really excellent costume is not based on beauty, not expensive, not surprising, but on - no drama.
Let's talk about the daily dress of the three sisters:
The eldest sister Kang Yayan, played by Shao Meiqi, is the closest to the "elite office worker" in the play, and there are very few skin-revealing clothes (compared to the second sister's clothes, there are many skin-revealing), and the details that are too feminine are rare, generally embellished.
Someone described it this way: "Shao Meiqi has a face that can be calm, her facial features are tough, and she is the kind of person who can resist things at first glance, and she will never cry until she has to", which is much more specific than using the three words "strong woman" to describe it.
She is indeed the most professional in the play, and she also uses the suit to add drama to her "workplace temperament".
Shao Meiqi wears a lot of gray suits in the play, which is the dress when working for Gao Changsheng (Lin Baoyi), at this time, the eldest sister's clothing can be seen to maintain a sense of distance from the people around her, the collar is high, the material is also stiff, in her own world, she has not yet integrated into anyone, nor has she pulled anyone in.
When walking, I found that this top has a bat sleeve design, suit fabric + standing collar + bat sleeve + belt, which combines the essence of Eastern and Western tailoring and design, and really can taste the taste for how many years it has been worn.
The other set is a slate gray suit, compared with the above set, the longer top, simple line design, although "decent", but the sense of workplace is just right. To tell the truth, Shao Meiqi's appearance really fits this 90s minimalist style suit, tough with Liso.
In the later period, she wore a lot of tops with printed patterns and relatively light materials, but found that there was none, and the styles were "conservative". It can be seen here that Kang Yayan's "out of line" is definitely bound, and she is still more on the "traditional" side in her bones.
Although she has a strong sense of enterprise, if she meets a man she identifies, more traditional standards such as "giving", "virtuousness" and "selflessness" will jump out, occupy her heart, and decide her choice.
I remember revisiting this drama a few years ago, and found that Kang Yayan had a big red shawl on Office. At a glance, you know that it is cashmere, the color is positive, soft and sticky, and the texture is invincible. This kind of clothing setting from real life is what can move people's hearts more.
It's not new to put a shawl on Office, but big red may not be the one we choose in our daily lives. After watching the TV series, I suddenly found that "the big red is also very beautiful", and immediately aroused the urge to have one. This is the performance of "higher than life", which can lead people to follow, and what you are really chasing is not only the shawl, but also the living state of the urban Office Lady presented in the TV series.
Kang Yayan's fight in career and his emotional bluntness are a very good set of contrasts, and whether it is fighting or blunt, you need to have a very persistent force, Shao Meiqi is simply the most perfect image to interpret this "sense of persistence".
From the end of the film, it can be seen that the bag given to her is MULTIBERRY, which is stable, practical, and large, and can be loaded with daily necessities and the boss to a Macau short errand that can be walked away. If there really is Kang Yayan in life, MULERRY is really a bag she will buy.
The personalities of the three sisters are completely different, and the three views are also very different, and because the men they love each other repeatedly hurt each other, ease, and reconcile in one interlocking event after another. The costume also perfectly expresses the difference in personality between the three people.
For example, the white shirt, the style they choose is very different:
The eldest sister's white shirt is either a little classical small standing collar, or a delicate lapel, with some exquisite jewelry - such as a necklace or pearl earrings that are circled twice to embellish a little femininity.
The second sister's white shirt, small puff sleeves and pleats on the chest all make this white shirt look more idyllic, with a diamond necklace and Chanel's bag, taking the path of a celebrity.
Little sister's white shirt is different, the bow ribbon on the chest is matched with a satin vest, borrowing the style of the countess to reflect the status of the female CEO, but the material is silk, in line with the bright and beautiful appearance of the little sister, and the same bright femininity.
To tell the truth, the three views of "Pearls" are not "idealized" at all, but the three views of this drama are very real, so real that we can really use them in our lives, such as - stupid, sometimes more annoying than playing tricks. This is talking about the second sister Constance.
Doing things without regard to the consequences, often starting with a good heart, but it is counterproductive. It only incarnates the heart of the messenger of justice, but does not have the ability to uphold justice. Presumably, when you watch this show many years later, you will also be like me while lamenting "she is too good-looking" on the TV, and angry on the other hand, "How stupid!" ”
The reason why this is so is also because Constance's heart is relatively simple, she is a woman who is love first, emotional, and loves fantasies, so her dress is mostly "sweet and gentle" feminine:
Constance has a lot of white looks in the play, and it is very appropriate to use white to set off the "simple and simple" heart. The setting of this character in this play has a sentence "Born with a trait that attracts the opposite sex, giving people a feeling of weakness, men want to protect", if you imagine the image of a woman in line with this sentence in your mind, it is also about wearing white clothes.
Whether it is a knit shirt or a shirt, Constance's clothes have some gentle, little feminine details, and with Li Zi's appearance, the image of the ignorant beauty who "believes in commitment and pursues romance" becomes three-dimensional.
Although her personality is not flattering, she is really beautiful in this drama!
Went to night school to learn jewelry design, the evening is slightly cool, so I wore a classic trench coat, carrying an orange Hermès handbag, holding a folder for drawing, this set is full of points from both aesthetic and practical points of view.
The lake blue silk shirt, tied with a bow, pushes the "sweet" style to the highest point. No matter how old she is, Constance has a romantic little princess in her heart, and because of this, she is the most loved by her father and the most uneasy daughter of her mother.
Like this sleeveless turtleneck top, romantic print, ruffled, with Constant's wavy curls, the noble "thousand gold" feeling is really hers. In this way, the romantic personality of loving fantasies and the inability to control life have formed a wonderful contrast in Constance.
In the play, the biggest change in Constance's style is that after going to Lhasa, here we also have to buckle to the theme of our part: gorgeous is only the appearance, the inside is "feeling real".
For example, after arriving in Lhasa, buy local-style jewelry and mix and match accessories you brought from the metropolis. This is something we all do in our daily lives, right?
Or, take a stroll around the local small market, buy one or two scarves, add two local styles for your own outfit, and not to mention whether diet and thought can be integrated, at least from the point of view of clothing, I want to temporarily abandon the past life and enjoy the present.
Or maybe it's the Burberry scarf you would wear in an office building, but you put yourself in a scene that is completely different from the city, and the friction between "your real self" and "your travel self" has not been felt by everyone? These dramas that impress us are really not a few styling formulas, but a way of living a life and dressing up.
There is a saying that "travel is a feeling of being 'another life'". The meaning of travel to us, in addition to relaxation, is more to bring back to daily life what we think, think, feel and even feel when traveling. And this can also be seen in Constance's dress after returning from Lhasa:
From the heart, she brought back some courage and self-awareness, and in terms of appearance, she brought back "ethnic accessories".
After returning from Lhasa, she began to like to wear exaggerated accessories, and began to like to wear bracelets, which was previously a single "Miss Qianjin" style, and now added some exotic, ethnic sense, and the content of the shape was immediately fuller than before. From a rich family who can be seen at a glance and "needs protection", it has become a "woman with a story".
In addition to accessories grabbing the camera, she also coiled her hair like when she was in Lhasa, better highlighting the accessories and making people look less "childish".
This set of shapes was really beautiful to see at the time, white with gold, there is a clean gorgeous effect. The wooden details on the gold earrings give them some quaint, original meaning, not too exaggerated, and the gold winding bracelet is also well matched, the finishing touch.
At the end of the film, you can see that Li Zi's handbag is provided by Milan Station, and those who go shopping in Hong Kong must be no stranger to it, so Li Zi's handbag in the play is more varied
When watching this drama, we may not recognize the Hermès platinum bag, Chanel limited patent leather handbag, BV "monk bag", after more than ten years, our fashion knowledge has increased, but when we look back, we still feel that this drama has a fashion significance that is not outdated.
At that time, Hong Kong was the intersection of world cultures, the center of the fusion of Eastern and Western civilizations, and the best cultural heritage of the East and the West. Not to mention the aesthetics, which has private standards, but for new things and new styles, it is indeed received earlier.
And we who have watched TVB since childhood have also subtly cultivated an aesthetic, not only for clothing, but also for lifestyle, and even for human nature.
For example, Constance practices yoga while video talking to her husband, a lifestyle that is still outdated.
For example, once watched this scene, I did not find that this lamp is Artemide's Nesso Table Lamp~
For example, it was impossible for attention to fall on this sofa at that time, but with the trend of medieval furniture and European home furnishing brands in the past two years, it was only then that it was Cassina's LC3.
This is the reason why a fashion drama can really stay in our hearts, in addition to sublimating real life, more importantly, I have really seen good things, used good things, and walked ahead of the times.
It is said that many of the story complexes of this drama allude to the real rich family, and it is precisely because most Hong Kong dramas in those years had the creative habit of finding inspiration from real life that there was such a sentence that it was meaningful to chew - if there is a similarity, it is purely coincidental. This sentence is really interesting to taste, the plot and reality look at each other and laugh, no one laughs at anyone, it expresses a kind of "life is like a play" situation.
"Pearlescent Treasure" not only talks about the giants and business wars, but also family ethics, marriage, parents and siblings, etc. Life relations, several lines are intertwined, each other's shackles, checks and balances, catalyzing.... Seeing some mistakes caused, some regrets can not be avoided, entangled, unsolvable knots, and the emotions that are difficult to harvest.... Just in response to the line in the movie "Mei Yanfang": Slow song is not singing sadness, but singing sighing.
Yes, it is the word "sigh", sadness is the feeling of sinking to the bottom, and sighing is the process.
I used to see a passage from the TED talk that felt the same way: "If you watch a TV series, you know that the stories and characters can be exaggerated and beyond reality, and if you're a fan of the show, you'll find the exaggeration interesting, and if you're not, you'll find them emotional or even superficial." Maybe you even think that watching the show is a waste of time, that the exaggerated plot has no educational purpose, or that it doesn't exist at all. But I believe that the other way around is true, that tv series reflect life, just an exaggeration. ”
The theme song of "Pearlescent Treasure" is "Diamond Jubilee" sung by Guan Shuyi, and the lyrics of Lin Xi are "Colorful competition, anytime chance, with the mystery, with age, looking for true and false blessings." "It's not just "Pearls" that breaks the word, but also us who are struggling to move forward in life.
The various feelings born of a play are like a mirror that reflects our personal explorations. Our lives will be just as stressful, the stakes will be just as dramatic, and our lives will be filled with constant joy and sorrow, just like these characters.
But more importantly, we can also be like them, overcoming difficulties, struggles, and finding salvation unintentionally in the process. This is the precious gift that TVB left us at that time - some easy to understand but profound truths. Take these truths and compare your own life with drama to find "true blessings".
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Written by: Teresa Zhao
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