Can Claudia Schiffer save the world?

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I believe she can.

http://money.cnn.com/blogs/davos/2007/01/can-claudia-schiffer-save-world.html

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Can Claudia Schiffer save the world?

Fortune's Nelson Schwartz writes:

It was a classic Davos moment - a mix of awesome financial and CEO power, celebrities, and just enough has-beens and hangers-on to remind you who the real power players are. The place was the Belvedere hotel Wednesday night, and the setting a party for Germany's Focus magazine.

In one corner stood JP Morgan Chase's Jamie Dimon chatting with his lieutenants. In another corner of the room, there was Michael Dell and Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman. Lakshmi Mittal wasn't far away. Meanwhile, supermodel Claudia Schiffer stood on a small podium like the Queen receiving visitors, who did everything but curtsy. Last but not least, onetime AOL cofounder Steve Case wandered around the room, looking slightly lost.

Schiffer was trailed by a team of photographers and aides, while even jaded reporters from the world biggest media outlets scrambled to grab shots of themselves and her on their cell phones. Acting nonchalant, I asked her where she was living these days, and she told me Notting Hill in London. I told her I lived in London, in Hampstead, and that we should hang out. She didn't take me up on the offer, but she did say that she would be at the nightcap Thursday night for Young Global Leaders and asked if I would be there. You bet I will.

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1. Maybe this is a better article: "when Claudia met Shimon"

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/alan_rusbridger/2007/01/davos_when_claudia_met_shimon.html

Davos 07: when Claudia met Shimon

The supermodel and the elder statesman were paired to talk about climate change. Guess who dazzled most?

Alan Rusbridger
January 26, 2007 11:40 AM

Davos is famously a place of unexpected connections. As in Claudia Schiffer and Shimon Peres. The word was that they were sharing a little publicised post-dinner fringe-event platform. The question was why?

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First there were many speeches by future global leaders on why climate change mattered, how to make it sexy and how business would take the lead.. And then a short film. They thanked a very long list of sponsors, who included Matthew Freud. Matthew Freud is married to Elisabeth M, daughter of Rupert. And then Sky TV's Adam Boulton took the stage and introduced Claudia and Shimon.

Claudia revealed that her conversion to the cause had been at an event organised by James Murdoch (son of Rupert) at which Al Gore's film had been shown. She had offered to do anything to help. So by now little bits of the jigsaw were falling into place. And nothing wrong with that. It's entirely good that James Murdoch is sincere about this stuff and can enlist his dad and his brother in law and that they can team up with business leaders, present and future, to start changing behaviour and agendas. Good for them and good for Davos,

And then Peres spoke. Boulton said he was there because of his interest in petrol-free cars. But Peres didn't speak about petrol-free cars at all. He spoke about the uselessness of history as a guide to the future and about the impotence of politics. He had spoken in the same vein in the afternoon, but somehow his words tonight had added power - perhaps because of the intimacy of the surroundings and because they were addressed to young people with some force and urgency.

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2. Well, if her husband can make anthropogenic GHGs disappear . . .

. . . but beyond that I wouldn't get my hopes up.

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3. LOL - David Copperfield?

That would be a real magic trick!