Chapter 1431 Is this a knockoff?
After listening to Ilka's account of what happened, Xiao Peng was speechless.
To put it simply, Derek Messier approached Jelena and Ilka, saying they had great images and wanted to invite them to dinner to discuss the filming of Oli's new music video, to see if there was any chance for them to appear in the shoot.
This sounds like a good thing, but unfortunately they met Ilka.
Ilka had seen Derek Mercier before when she was with the Korean Soo Jung-seok. However, Ilka at that time was not as well-made up and dressed as she is now, so Derek Mercier did not recognize her.
And this Derek Messier is simply an LSP.
He often used the excuse of hiring someone to film a singer's music video as an excuse to organize drinking parties and get-togethers, but in reality, he was just trying to sleep with these inexperienced girls, essentially getting them drunk and messing around. To date, he's deceived at least 800 women using this method.
As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. Soo Jung-suk and Derek Messier knew each other and were close friends, often attending Derek Messier's parties. At the time, Soo Jung-suk often brought Ilka to these parties, where she would watch him mischief the young girls. Ilka, deeply impressed by him, rejected his proposal and prepared to take Jelena away.
So what about finding a lawyer?
That brings us to the woman in the black evening gown.
Her name was Ruth Birkin. Though she wasn't particularly old, not even forty, she was quite influential. She was the Design Director and COO of Chaumet, responsible for its overall operations. She was the one who chartered the Navy Mansion for the new product launch. She was also the one who had Derek Messier tricking Jelena and Ilka.
She is a lesbian, and she is deeply attracted by both Jelena's mixed-race beauty and Ilka's unconventional Eastern European wild beauty. She wants to get both of them, so she asks Derek Messier to help her.
Who knew that the two of them directly rejected Derek Messier, so she had to bring her own group of sisters to the event herself, hoping that the two of them would become contracted models of "Chaumet" and saying that "Chaumet" would promote them. In short, she made all kinds of promises.
In the end, the two still rejected them. And Jelena had just called them "self-satisfied idiots," which infuriated her. She was so angry that she said she wanted to find a lawyer.
Xiao Peng said helplessly, "Ms. Birkin, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. Why did you find a lawyer for no reason? What are you suing them for? They're prettier than you? They're younger than you?"
The onlookers almost laughed but didn't dare to. They could only secretly give Xiao Peng a thumbs-up: "You're so awesome! You mocked Shangmei's COO at Shangmei's new product launch party? You're not afraid of being kicked out!"
Lu-Platinum's face turned pale with anger after hearing this: "A woman's biggest enemy is a girl younger and prettier than herself. Saying this to Xiao Peng was like mocking her for being old and ugly in front of everyone!"
She wanted to rush up and tear Xiao Peng's mouth apart! But after all, this was her company's new product launch, and she couldn't create too much trouble that would affect the reception. Wasn't it just because of a farce that a shareholder was dragged away by the CEO to attend an extraordinary board meeting?
Ruth Birkin took a deep breath, composed herself, and said, "I'm looking for a lawyer for a reason. These two ladies are suspected of infringing copyright."
"Infringement?" Xiao Peng was stunned. "Infringement of what rights?"
Ruth Birkin pointed at Jelena and Ilka and said, "Their jewelry clearly infringes upon our Shangmei designs."
Xiao Peng had prepared jewelry for Jelena and Ilka. Jelena wore a pearl jewelry set made up of countless natural pink pearls of similar size. It included a necklace, a headband, a bracelet, earrings, and more. These pink pearls weren't very large, so each one wouldn't be considered expensive. However, since thousands of similar-sized natural pearls were stitched together, the value of the entire set naturally increased significantly.
Ilka's jewelry was simple, consisting of only a necklace, earrings, and a ring. These three pieces formed a complete set, all platinum, diamonds, and emeralds. Ilka's fair skin complemented the jewelry perfectly.
Lou-Baijin raised her voice to explain to the onlookers, "This pearl jewellery piece of Jélène is identical to the one created by our founder, Mr. Nitot, back when Chaumet was founded. Napoleon gifted this jewellery to his second wife, Marie-Louise. It's now in the Fontainebleau Museum. Anyone who's been to Fontainebleau has probably seen it! And this emerald jewellery piece was also created by Mr. Nitot. It was the wedding jewels of Napoleon and Marie-Louise, and it's now in the Louvre! Everyone, please judge. Isn't this stealing our Chaumet designs?"
After hearing this, everyone discussed it: "Yes. This is indeed the jewelry that Nido designed for Napoleon. You can see it in the museum."
"It's shameful to wear counterfeit jewelry in a place like this!"
"That's right, I just noticed their jewelry. No wonder it's so beautiful, it turns out it was designed by Niduo back then!"
"Regardless of whether it's a knockoff or not, it's really nice looking. It's not cheap, is it?"
"What do you know? How can things be the same now as they were back then? Back then, there was no technology to make artificial pearls and gemstones, so everything was genuine and expensive. What about now? That set of pearl jewelry must be made of artificial pearls, right? If that's the case, it could have been made for a few hundred euros. As for that set of emerald jewelry, wow, look at the color of the emeralds, and then look at the diamonds on it. If they were real, how much would they cost? They must be made of glass or plastic or something. They look beautiful and are very cheap!"
"Well, they don't look like they're wearing the real thing! They must be made of low-quality material!"
Listening to the discussions around her, Ruth Birkin's expression was filled with pride. "Although wearing jewelry designed by Chaumet founder Mr. Nito at Chaumet's cocktail party demonstrates your love for Chaumet jewelry, this blatant act of counterfeiting is unacceptable and tarnishes the Chaumet brand. So I'll have a lawyer handle this matter!"
“Right!”
"Well said!"
“We should pay attention to intellectual property rights!”
The people around applauded after hearing what Ruth Birkin said, and Ruth Birkin looked even more proud.
At this time, Xiao Peng sighed and said, "Although I don't like to swear, I really want to ask you: Ms. Ruth Birkin, are you stupid?"
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