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By the turn of the century, the town was Europe’s winter El Dorado and Badrutt’s was the central base camp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Not much has changed in the last 120 years and the hotel’s magical allure has made it world famous. Every day, scores of tourists stop outside the grand entrance to take photographs and there is no doubt that it is a destination in itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I wanted to photograph the grand entrance in 1960s period styling as a nod to the time that Gunter Sachs and Brigitte Bardot were holding court and helping make St Moritz the most glamorous winter resort on earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I hope others think this photograph has a sense of place and a sense of time. What an era it must have been, if only the elaborately decorated walls of Badrutt’s could talk, they would no doubt tell tales of mischief and glamour, but most of all they would speak of the one constant - the joy of life.","brand":"David Yarrow","offers":[{"title":"94 x 127 cm (image size) | 132 x 165 cm (framed size)","offer_id":43923373719639,"sku":"DY-PH-Badrutt's-94 x 127 cm (image size) | 132 x 165 cm (framed size)-AR-SI-N\/A","price":26500.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"142 x 191 cm (image size) | 180 x 229 cm (framed size)","offer_id":43923373752407,"sku":"DY-PH-Badrutt's-142 x 191 cm (image size) | 180 x 229 cm (framed size)-AR-SI-N\/A","price":31800.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/0553\/files\/yarrow_david_336_badrutt_s_132x165_2147ab13-59c9-441f-a07d-23065e52593a.jpg?v=1780583280"},{"product_id":"david-yarrow-badrutts-ii","title":"Badrutt's II","description":"Badrutt's II\u003cbr\u003eSt Moritz, Switzerland - 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Local builder, Johannes Badrutt, was the founding father of St Moritz as we know it now and is credited with being the inventor of vast luxury Alpine hotels. Badrutt established a new level of opulence when he opened the Engadiner Kulm in the 1860s and meanwhile his son, Caspar, bought an existing hotel - The Beau Rivage - in 1884 and officially enlarged it into the Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in 1896.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    With its vast drawing rooms, elaborate furnishing and Neo Gothic architecture, Badrutt’s soon became an institution. Its clientele was not just the Swiss, but the British upper classes who were drawn to the strong winter suns of St Moritz and all sorts of thrill chasing events on the ice. By the turn of the century, the town was Europe’s winter El Dorado and Badrutt’s was the central base camp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Not much has changed in the last 120 years and the hotel’s magical allure has made it world famous. 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If they are out voted, they will ascribe the loss to demographics and ignorance and will hold out on their conviction to their dying day.  I think I may be one of those unflinching disciples and I have been to a few night clubs in my life. I am not a member, but I have the context to admit that there are truly no places quite like it. The famed devotees of St Moritz may just be right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The cavernous and yet cohesive chalet is a microcosm of St Moritz, a town known from the outside for its prosperity and glamour, but from the inside for its frivolity and loose governance. If there is a decadence in town, it is dwarfed by the lightness of touch. Dracula is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang meeting Studio 54 and when I see 85-year-olds dancing energetically and in time with their grandson’s girlfriend and no one batting an eyelid, I know I have found an antidote to oppressive woke culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It was Gunter Sachs who put St Moritz on the party map. When he moved there with his wife Brigitte Bardot, he wanted to have his own club and so Dracula was born. On his passing, the club’s governance passed to his son Rolf - a man of great charm, formidable intellect and creative sensibility. It was Rolf who gave me permission to bring a film crew into this most exclusive of clubs and I was determined to reward his faith - there would be no second chance. Dracula doesn’t do film crews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When I am asked about the vibe in St Moritz, many are looking for the negative angles that come from observing privilege and excess. 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The town is homely and welcoming before it is snobbish and elitist. For the cynics, this is unimaginable, but it is the reality and it is part of the fabric that makes the town so magical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The artisans and farmers of the Engadin are accorded no less respect simply because they don’t shop at Gucci or lunch at the ski clubs in the mountains. The joy and happiness of living in this amphitheatre is not a tiered system. It envelopes the whole community and the community is better for it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These thoughts were not far from my mind when I invited a goat and some farmers into the shoot at the famous Renaissance Bar at Badrutt’s Palace.  They are as much a part of the Engadin community as the technology and finance titans who sip espresso martinis and smoke cigars on the old swivel chairs at the bar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I wanted to centre this story around Brigitte Bardot glamour.  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Whilst the idyllic charm of this most famous of seaside towns has a sense of permanency that touches only a very few communities, we would be trying to tell a story of an iconic woman without her being there. Parody or not, that is a dangerous game for a visual artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Locations were always going to be a central building block to this project and there were some important decisions to be made in a town that can be very busy. Early on we homed in on one area - La Ponche. It’s such an emblematic part of St Tropez: it was here that Roger Vadim rolled his cameras in “And God Created Woman” in 1958, the movie that made Bardot - his then wife - a world-wide sensation. With its narrow, cobbled streets and wider aesthetic splendour, La Ponche is the spiritual heart of St Tropez.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The harbour has several other attributes: it hasn’t changed much since 1958, it isn’t crowded with tourists at 6.45 am and furthermore, it is visually elevated in the first half hour when the sun rises from the east. It is also a practical location for an early morning shoot. La Ponche Hotel, where Bardot stayed during the making of the movie, is still very much in operation and became our own Hq for the shoot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gunter Sachs started romancing Brigitte Bardot in the mid 60s, she was often seen on his Riva Aquarama - Dracula. It is a boat that embodies the glamour and style of 1960s St Tropez and luckily through a long friendship with Gunter’s son Rolf, we were able to borrow Dracula for the shoot. That was a big break.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The hardest part of the jigsaw, however, was finding a balance between the model’s necessary anonymity and the sense that she could pass as Brigitte herself. We have worked with Frida Aasen before and felt confident that she could play the role prescribed. Frida had done her homework and understood her head angles and then it was simply hoping we would get one glimpse when it all aligned. She had to look the part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I smile when I look at this photograph, in part because I sense some reward from the homework, the planning and then the spontaneity on the day. 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My fondness for him is not a self-serving emotion derived from being allowed to shoot at this club, nor is it simply because he continues to work as hard as he does to be charming and efficient to a daily clientele that in peak summer can exceed 800 covers. It is more because Le Club 55 has retained a unique vibe for decades. That is some trick for a famous restaurant and one achieved by so few. The credit for that must go to him and his daughter Camille.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Patrice has a cool insouciance that trickles down to his clientele and in so doing pays homage to the club’s roots. In 1955 Roger Vadim and his film crew who were shooting the love scenes for “And God Created Woman” mistook the driftwood furniture that Patrice’s father had laid up on his beach for a public restaurant. And so it was that Le Club 55 was born and the film’s lead - Brigitte Bardot - soon to be the world’s most famous woman - found her base camp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There is, of course, an indulgence in life at Le Club 55, but it is accompanied by a chilled nonchalance that cannot be bottled. So many destination venues are ultimately ruined by the clientele that want to be seen there: it is the money that eventually wins the day, but here in Pampelonne, that effortless and visceral authenticity remains sacrosanct.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here in the most idyllic part of the French Riviera, is a club that will always be sovereign and I sense that the behaviour is self-policed. 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It is picture postcard Italy at its celestial best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTelling a story with a backdrop as visually arresting as this has its challenges; it is easy to fall into the trap of being gratuitous. I was not the first photographer to stand here and I won’t be the last. In the same way that it is creatively timid to simply plonk a cowboy in front of the Grand Canyon, I knew it would be artistically lame to take an individual portrait in front of that famous stretch of the Amalfi Coast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI found some inspiration from Mario Testino’s work in Copacabana Beach in Rio some 26 years ago and I am never ashamed of being a sponge. 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