The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games have brought the snow sports that have been gaining popularity in the past two years to a climax, which has made the skiing trend another popular trend for major brands to seize the high ground of fashion. From functional clothing to lifestyle, skiing is a trend that carries people's imagination for winter fashion. The down jacket, as the most indispensable functional clothing for winter, is also blossoming with magnificent colors.

How Much Do You Know About Ski Jackets?

Skiing in the modern sense became popular in the late 19th century in the Nordic countries, and by the 1920s, it had become popular in Western Europe and the United States. Throughout the world, developed countries are basically located in the northern hemisphere, latitude is not low, to the cold winter, outdoor sports projects are greatly reduced, skiing as both sightseeing, sports in one of the outdoor projects, naturally popular.

For the upper class who have money and leisure, basking in the sun and watching the snow on the top of the Alps in winter, and socializing with rich and powerful people from all over the world, they are naturally keen on skiing, which directly leads to a large number of high-end ski resort towns like St. Moritz and Gstaad.

Princess Diana left a classic throwback smile on the snow, and the chic princess always used a few different but not excessive details to accentuate a decent look.

90s "silver hair" supermodel Krsiten McMenamy's ski look in 1996

Correspondingly, ski equipment is thus divided into two evolutionary paths. One is the continuous innovation of fabrics and ergonomics with the development of technology, the other is the elaborate craft and luxury dazzling clothing accessories.

This photo of the goddess Brigitte Bardot on the snowfield captures the femininity of an era

After all, rich people need fancy clothes and exquisite artifacts to reflect their social status. Of course, as the times progressed, the two complemented each other. And the combination of the two often accomplishes what is necessary to move fashion history forward. So, from the beginning of the 1920s, outdoor ski wear has always attracted fashion masters to devote themselves to it.

High-fashion designer Lucien Lelong's functional skiwear, designed specifically for women in 1927, freed women from the constraints of the hemline.

The earliest ski outfits were actually not very different from what we see as vintage outdoor mountaineering wear, with dark brown and dark brown tweed being the main fabric, and the only difference between women and men was that they still wore a tweed skirt or dress jacket that got in the way outside of their bottoms.

By the 1930s or so, Jean Patou and Lucien Lelong's ski suits for the wealthy introduced the concept of men's trouser suits, tying fat pant legs into high top socks and freeing women from the confines of the hemline. High-fashion pioneers Vionnet and Schiaparelli were also pioneering fans of the women's ski suit, taking it a step further by improving on the trouser suit and making a one-piece overall version of the ski suit in premium fabrics.

The women's ski suit designed by French fashion master Jean Patou in 1944 combined the fashion of the time.

Legendary designer Elsa Schiaparelli with her one-piece ski uniform.

The modern ski look was started by the German Klaus Obermeyer, who used brightly colored nylon fabrics mixed with the stitching of diffraction jackets to push into a new era of ski shirts. With Moncler's further offensive, the new silhouette and colorful color scheme gradually replaced the old impressions and set up a new skiing style.

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Brainstorming duvet

The modern down coat was first invented by Eddie Bauer, an American businessman. After a fateful fishing trip, he realized the need for a work outfit that was lightweight yet warm and breathable and did not need to be taken off while fishing or hunting. Taking inspiration from the Russian officer's down coat, he combined it with his invented quilting technique and, in 1936, designed the first modern down jacket, later known as the Skyliner

Eddie Bauer, an American with a passion for winter fishing, designed a puffer jacket, later called the Skyliner, to keep himself from freezing to death.

Eddie Bauer's design at the time

The year after Bauer invented the duvet, the talented designer Charles James was inspired to create a stunning and unusual "duvet" jacket for Mrs. Oliver Burr Jennings. This coat, without intricate decoration and embroidery, was simply cut into three dimensions to create this masterpiece, which was even called "the world's first soft sculpture" by the artist Dali.

The "duvet" coat designed by Charles James for Mrs. Jennings in 1937

In 1973, also because of the cold wind at night, Norma Kamali suddenly thought "Why can't we put two sleeves on the sleeping bag?" After returning home, the concept of sleeping bags, at the time full of surreal spirit of the down sleeping bag coat, was born.

This down sleeping bag coat not only on the cover of "ELLE" at the time, "VOGUE" former editor-in-chief, the industry's legendary fashion editor André LeonTalley's is not only love it.

Legendary industry fashion editor André Leon Talley wears a sleeping bag duvet by Norma Kamali.

Since then, down jackets have twice been integrated into the street fashion pandemic inseparable from Moncler in the 80s and Demna Gvasalia more recently. but on the way to innovation, designers never stop brainstorming levels of experimentation.