seems like nothing new has been talked about for a while.... i'll post a theory about the possible purple dress event.
what if the client that vivian is entertaining in the purple dress is someone connected to the cigarette man or it might just be him. which would connect how christian picked that wine since he liked it and now he might connect the dots and send vivian to that client and see what happens. the same way vivian proposed the whoring the employee's wife to gain contracts idea to christian.
ps: we don't know for sure if christian didn't do this before from what info we can extract from the story so far.
since
SC Stories keeps giving hints about possible direction of the story in each chapter, the above theory doesn't seem so far fetched.
writing it of as hutch telling christian when he clearly doesn't interact much with his boss as shown by how awkward he is with the boss at the first dinner at the boss's house. the simple write-off is more like akin to lazy writing which the dev isn't doing.