Moncler Grenoble's operatic A/W 2014 show
Remo Ruffini hits all the high notes at New York's Hammerstein ballroom
Normally what happens at a fashion show is the following: the guests all file into a well-known and well-trodden location, typically a white box with bright lighting. The music starts and the models walk in and out like zombies (not even flustered by the occasional streaker, a new fashion week tradition). None of this, however, ever happens at a Moncler fashion show. Remo Ruffini is the Houdini of the fashion world and this season the fun-loving magician packed a full house at New York's Hammerstein ballroom. When the curtain fell, the audience's jaws dropped onto a stage featuring 60 models in towering cubbyholes, and nine opera singers strapped into what appeared to be bionic stretchers in the foreground. All of the performers, of course, were buttoned up in Moncler Grenoble, the Tony performance-worthy ski line from the puffer jacket maker. The static models looked like a chessboard in black and white, from the top of their fox hats and puffer jackets to their ski pants and Yeti boots. The opera singers, meanwhile, hit all the high notes in padded tailcoats and bowties, as they were flung back and forth on the stage like hands on a clock. It was wild, wacky and wonderful - just the sort of thing we expect from the out-of-the-box thinkers at Moncler. Watch the show unfold...
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Jack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper*, joining the team in 2022. Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines, he has also contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Mr Porter’s The Journal and more, while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.
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