RED VELVET FACTOR « Model Citizens « Fashion & Passion

Published 2010-03-03 13:31:37 in MODEL CITIZENS

RED VELVET FACTOR

the scene: Swiss Music Awards 2010, Schiffbau, Zurich

Ok, Swiss Music Awards, it’s not the Brit Awards. Because Swiss music’s rather like Swiss fashion: pocket versions of international mainstream numbers, usually released at least two years too late. Add our national obsession to roll out the red carpet for even the most provincial event. So instead of Lady GaGa in Lee McQueen, we got Ke$ha bringing in that missing international superstar factor. Regrettably in something looking dangerously NYC, Canal Street.

Still, Hollywood factor wasn’t completely absent on the red carpet in the mixed zone where us media people had the opportunity to fire off questions and cameras at award winners and life acts. This was mainly down to Carlos Leal, a Swiss music legend and the actor who played the croupier in James Bond film Casino Royale. Switzerland’s answer to Jude Law wore a moustache and a velvet dinner jacket in burgundy red with a deep v-neck in slate which helped the eye focusing on his chest hair. That’s a tricky look to carry off, but Leal mastered it with great bravura, staying safely on the Tom Ford side of italianate.
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Leal also had enough style to answer each of the many pressing questions from my journalist colleagues with stoic patience and sweet charm. As I was waiting for a particularly ardent female journo to finish her radio interview for my take of Carlos (for another project) I discovered a true style sensation: his wrist scarf. Now that’s something I haven’t come across before. Which leaves me with plenty of ooh ahh and the fine words: first seen at Swiss Music Awards 2010.

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