The St. Regis Aspen Snow Polo World Championship is a 12-year tradition that kicks off the mountain town’s winter season, and this year proved to be the most action-packed yet. – Dinner disco in the Snow Lodge Jade Room.
The moody, tented living room is like a hidden annex to the St. Regis, where savvy guests gather for après-ski, and the night before the snowball championships, the local Aspen community welcomes glamorous guests. A group has gathered. And beyond that. In one corner, cloak maker Lindsay Thornburgh and jewelry designer Jennifer Younger can be seen wearing sporting goods from their eponymous brand, while in the other, Billy Couples Magnussen and Erika Firestone and Paul Wesley and Natalie Cookenberg were seen wearing Stetson’s new cowboy hats. opportunity. Polo players such as Nacho Figueras, Alejandro Novillo Astrada and Sara Segal Magnes were also out in force, enjoying a night away from the stables.
Revelers at Silent Pool’s gaudy ice sculpture serving gin martinis nibbled on caviar from Aureta’s caviar tins, which are labeled with her name and likeness. “Aspen has a certain excess, but I’m looking forward to it all,” Jayma Cardoso jokes, gesturing toward a room full of shearlings, cowboy hats, and turquoise jewelry. Showed. “It’s such a unique place. There’s really no reason not to have fun.”
The next morning, in a snow-covered Rio Grande Park, Aspen Valley Polo Club founders Melissa and Mark Ganzi teamed up with their best players to put on a proper polo show for the newcomers in the crowd. We gathered together. “It’s always a great day for polo, but today is especially great,” Melissa Ganzi, who visited the announcer’s tent, told Vogue. “There’s plenty of sun, plenty of snow, and no shortage of champagne.”
Well, in true Aspen fashion, Champagne played a co-star role to this day. As the game progresses, St. Regis brand chief George Fleck leads a lesson in Champagne sabrage, with Riley Keogh, Billie Lourd, Nicky Hilton Rothschild and Jeremy Pope all opening bottles of bubbly He took on the challenge of the theatrical art of saber. Some were more talented than others. Shaun White and Pom Klementieff are festival regulars and didn’t need any instructions.
By the end of the day, the talented trio of Grant Gange, Pierre-Henri Goumou, and Jason Crowder will take home the coveted trophy, celebrate by hoisting the day’s prize, and squirting another glass of champagne. Ta. Together they lead a merry band of party-goers into Hidalgo, a new basement inside the W Hotel Aspen, where Rebel Wilson, Anna Kendrick, Fortune Feimster, and many others dance on tables and couches and join in the fun. It marked the end of a merry kick-off. During the holidays.
