In a Shanghai alley in 1985, Li Danni was guarding her mother's cloth stall, looking at the dusty fabrics in the state-owned store, and clutching the oil paper bag that contained the new cheongsam samples. With three second-hand sewing machines and five neighborhood female workers, she used 30 yuan of start-up capital to set up a work shed in the back alley of Cloth Village and sewed her own clothing empire stitch by stitch.
Zheng Nan's retirement allowance helped her meet her urgent needs. The patrol team came to the rescue during the night inspection, and the back of the fabric rescued on a rainy night made the friendship that started with help quietly warm up. From improving student skirts to foreign trade cheongsam orders, from alley sheds to Nanjing Road flagship store, she survived the counterfeiting campaign and the raw material crisis. She used the softness of Xinjiang long-staple cotton and the exquisiteness of Suzhou embroidery to embroider the brilliance of the "Danfeng" brand in the tide of the times.
When her designs were featured in Paris Fashion Week, and when the "national trend" series detonated the market, Zheng Nan always stood outside the lights, blocking hidden arrows for her and guarding the rear. From black hair to frost on the temples, the clicking sound of the sewing machine hides the legend of the colorful clothes of two generations, and even more, the love letters of a pair of lovers weaved with trust and perseverance in the era of change.
