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Did you know? Vania Romoff's fiance is a SEA Games gold medalist

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Geolette Esguerra, Metro Magazine

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/entertainment/08/30/vaniaromoff-stevenfuglister-083017.jpg?ext=.jpg"/></figure></div><p>MANILA - Top fashion designer Vania Romoff and her fiancé, Steven Füglister, might have been all glammed up for their August Metro Society cover. </p><p>But in Kuala Lumpur, it’s all heart and glory as they celebrate Fuglister’s team’s dramatic victory in ice hockey at the Southeast Asian Games. </p><p>The historic win is the Philippines’ first ever gold in the sport, a feat for a country that has neither snow nor hockey in its usual repertoire.</p><p>From Kuala Lumpur, Metro checked in on its Metrowear 2015 designer, Romoff, to get her thoughts on the competition.</p><p>“The atmosphere at the games were intense, especially during the games against Malaysia. You have around 3,000 Malaysians cheering their team on with drums and noisemakers, in contrast with the 50 or so Filipinos occupying a single box at the stands. We waved our flags and cheered on our team even if our voices were drowned out by everyone else’s,” she shared.</p><p>“We were the underdogs but the boys had incredible fight in them. It was an amazing and emotional display of national pride,” she added.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:62.5% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BYPU5NaDRb2/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by VANIA ROMOFF (@vaniaromoff)</a> on <time dateTime="2017-08-26T02:00:53+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Aug 25, 2017 at 7:00pm PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" defer="" src="http://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Romoff couldn’t have been more proud of her fiancé, team captain Füglister, who grew up in Zurich playing hockey when he was six. </p><p>In his interview for the cover story of Metro Society, he said he played semi-pro before an injury put his sports career on hold. </p><p>He picked up the sport again when he moved to the country, helping to bring it to an internationally competitive level.</p><p>“I joined for fun, and over the years, it got more serious, and now we’re at the competitive stage with the country, which is quite amazing,” he said. </p><p>The team now has corporate support and is recognized by the Philippine Sports Commission and the Philippine Olympic Committee. They have started competing as a national team one year ago. </p><p>It is only fitting that they bring honor to the country at the SEA Games, which introduced ice sports only this year—which<br/>includes hockey, figure skating, and speed skating.</p><p>A fashion designer known for her dreamy, romantic creations, Romoff wanted to have luck on her side and opted to wear Füglister’s jersey during the competition.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:59.44444444444444% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BYPekuQDC_u/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Steven Füglister (@stevenfuglister)</a> on <time dateTime="2017-08-26T03:25:28+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Aug 25, 2017 at 8:25pm PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" defer="" src="http://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>“Watching him play for our country was quite surreal. I’ve seen him play before in Switzerland, and I was already his biggest fan then,” she said. “Even more so now when I see him wear our flag on his jersey. You see the passion he and his team put in when they play.”</p><p>Metro Society is available at major bookstores and newsstands nationwide.</p>

<p>Top fashion designer Vania Romoff and her fiancé, Steven Füglister, might have been all glammed up for their August Metro Society cover. But in Kuala Lumpur, it’s all heart and glory as they celebrate Fuglister’s team’s dramatic victory for ice hockey at the Southeast Asian Games. </p>

Top fashion designer Vania Romoff and her fiancé, Steven Füglister, might have been all glammed up for their August Metro Society cover. But in Kuala Lumpur, it’s all heart and glory as they celebrate Fuglister’s team’s dramatic victory for ice hockey at the Southeast Asian Games.

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Did you know? Vania Romoff's fiance is a SEA Games gold medalist

Geolette Esguerra,

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Published Aug 30, 2017 03:12 PM PHT

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