From Bankrupt Small Workshop to Fashion Empire

Waking up in 1998, a golden era of burgeoning global trade and countless low-end garment factories, Xu Duo finds himself taking over a near-bankrupt small workshop. Starting with clearance inventory, he meticulously rebuilds from the ground up, forging a powerhouse brand against all odds to ultimately conquer the global market. In a past life, he was the top-tier designer Balenciaga desperately coveted; in this life, he is determined to single-handedly dismantle the era of Western aesthetic monopoly. While competitors claw over Walmart orders, he transforms leftover scraps into "deconstructed" avant-garde scarves, igniting the market with the beauty of imperfection. Weaving Eastern motifs—from the Sun Bird and splash-ink landscapes to Dunhuang flying apsaras—into haute couture, he transforms Oriental aesthetics into the global vanguard of fashion. When overseas giants attempt a joint blockade, he retaliates by acquiring their endangered century-old heritage houses, reshaping Western classics with Eastern capital. Facing media taunts of being a "nouveau riche," he establishes a premier global fashion award to define true luxury himself. Years later, looking at the cover of *Time* magazine, he remarks casually: "I never had much ambition—I just hate being second best. Now that I have thirty thousand supermodels under my command, what do you have to say?"