My dear friend Fabrizio D'Aloisio has saved a few legends from being forgotten and written a book about Klosters, just as one should perhaps write a book about all places that are like Roma, Riviera, Como. Such legends are important because we live through them, even when breaking them. What would an Italian woman in stilettos passing be without Sophia Loren? Fighting without Adriano Celentano and Ornella Muti, Negroni drinking without Mastroianni, the Titanic without its sinking? Some of them are true and some certainly not, and some perhaps even truer than the truth they are based on. This is why legends have to be reinvented by someone every time. Perhaps this is not the case in other places. At most, you live and become a legend, but in Klosters, the legend already exists and at some point people simply started to live by it.
You can order his Book here:
Alongside photos by Robert Capa, Slim Aarons, Peter Knapp and writing by Irwin Shaw, Flora Lewis, and, I also cannot believe it, me.