Hollywood star heads to controversial Moncler fashion show in the forest: Anne Hathaway, St. Enjoying the mountain air in St. Moritz

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The eyes of the fashion world are on the Engadin: Luxury brand Moncler will be in St. Petersburg this Saturday evening. He is presenting his new winter collection in the forest near St. Moritz. World stars such as US ski queen Lindsey Vonn (39) and American actress Anne Hathaway (41) are already present at the luxury resort during the day. Hathaway arrived at the ski lift at the ski area without fear of any contact. “I love Switzerland, what a wonderful winter day,” the Oscar-winning actor told Blick after lunch at the Paradiso track restaurant.

The best shots came to Engadine upon the invitation of Italian billionaire Remo Ruffini (62), CEO of Moncler. Despite all the criticism from landscape conservationists, he held his record company’s fashion show there. For him, the mountain community is close to his heart.

As a child, Ruffini lived in St. went to Moritz

«St. I consider St. Moritz my second home. “I feel connected to nature there and I can completely switch off,” she told travel magazine “Condé Nast Traveler” in late January. The cold gives him mental and physical energy, and the forest in front of his chalet inspires him – for example, in the 2013 collection of winter sports brand Moncler Grenoble. Extras from a fashion show in New York at the time were staged as a forest of people.

Ruffini’s St. His relationship with Moritz is long. At the age of three, while on holiday with her mother, she visited the Alpine town in the Engadine for the first time. “We always went there when I was a kid. I learned to ski there, it has a special place in my heart.” At that time, he was staying with his mother in “a simple hotel at the foot of the Morteratsch Glacier”. “We had to walk for half an hour on a treeless road covered with snow and ice – this image is etched in my memory.”

Forest fashion show makes conservationists hateful

Ruffini will see even more trees Saturday evening. The fashion show of the new Moncler Grenoble collection will start at 18.00 in St. It will take place in St. Moritz Forest. It horrified many environmentalists. Although the canton advises against activities in the forest during the winter months, St. According to the mayor of St. Moritz, Beat Lüscher, he approved the event “due to the importance of the event for tourism in general and St. Moritz in particular.” Infrastructure and environment for the municipality. In the week before the fashion show, tons of materials were brought to the forest by helicopter, cables were pulled and scaffoldings were set up.

Armando Lenz, managing director of Pro Natura Grisons, criticizes the approval decision. “There are enough areas in the area that are so heavily used for tourism that a fashion show would have no impact on the flora and fauna,” he notes. Raimund Rodewald of the Swiss Foundation for Landscape Protection complains: “The landscape is already under great pressure. That’s why I think it’s wrong that it’s being increasingly misused for commercial purposes.”

Stars had dinner at Langosteria restaurant

Despite the criticism, St. The mood in St. Moritz seems enthusiastic. On social media, various influencers posted photos of dinner at Ruffini’s upscale restaurant Langosteria on Friday evening. Saturday lunchtime, before the fashion show, an appointment at the Paradiso Club was on the agenda.

Celebrities are happy: St. In addition to Hathaway and Vonn, the Moritz invitation was followed by three-time US Olympic snowboarding champion Shaun White (37) and his girlfriend, Bulgarian-Canadian actress Nina Dobrev (35). Ruffini also married American-Italian model Melissa Satta-Boateng, 37, Italian actress Beatrice Vendramin, 23, and South Korean singer Hwang Min-hyun, 28, in St. He brought it to St. Moritz.

Source : Blick