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Claudia Schiffer's crystals shine on as she lights up London

Evening Standard Last updated at 09:58am on 26.11.09

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It was the turn of Claudia Schiffer, to put on the Christmas lights at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Knightsbridge.

Here she is pictured Nadja Swarovski who is an Austrian crystals heiress.

The lights comprise a single five-metre snow flake made of 10, 000 Swarovski crystals. Last night's party raised mony for UNICEF's water for which Schiffer is an ambassador.

Artists reinvent Claudia Schiffer as Forties film noir heroine

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To be precise it was our son Ethan that swtched on the snowflake with Nardia that night after winning a competition on Magic FM

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