Après Spring Break!
Ski vacations were not part of the mise-en-scène of my childhood—and quite frankly, I’m not positive that I love the idea of being on skis. There’s a lack of mobility control and a general sense of upper-middle-class physicality that I’m not sure would come naturally to me. But! We here at Very Famous are NEVER ones to turn down an après ski mindset! And as we transition from winter to spring, your ski wear can reflect our changing weather in style.
From left to right:
❄️Purple Starbs❄️
❄️Off-White Intarsia Wool Sweater / Mytheresa ❄️
❄️Vintage Obermeyer Van Gogh Ski Jacket / eBay❄️
❄️POC Iris X Goggles / Backcountry.com❄️
❄️Off-White Industrial Belt / Mytheresa ❄️
❄️Anima High-Rise Ski Trousers / Matchesfashion.com ❄️
Also, as I was doing a little research on the skiing community, I found five random tidbits of ski paraphernalia. Hope you après-
- There was Après Ski, the short-lived Bravo TV show, which ran just one short season in 2015. Set in Whistler, British Columbia, the show followed “Canadian hospitality tycoon” Joey Gibbons after the launch of his tourism company Gibbons Life. Even though there was a man bungee jumping naked, the show wasn’t renewed for a second season.
- Hunter S. Thompson lived in Aspen. This is a thrilling little fact that I didn’t know—Thompson apparently wasn’t a skier but came for the counter-culture, ski-bum intellectual dropout vibe Aspen had once upon a time. Even though he only tried skiing once, he lived in Aspen for almost forty years.
- Union Pacific Railroad developed the first chairlift in the world at Sun Valley in 1936, which is also generally known to be the first destination ski resort in the United States.
- “Even as the sport morphed from an elite practice to become a keystone of middle-class identity, it maintained its associations with opulence, making it the quintessence of that defining strain of postwar consumer culture: democratized luxury,” this Atlantic article said.
- One more thing about Aspen: There are shrines to various pop culture things hidden in the mountains, from a John Denver tree monument to a Red Sox tree, to a shrine for Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.
