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White Lotus star Walton Goggins has a new gig: as the designer of ski-ready specs.
The Emmy-nominated Fallout actor was sitting at the fire pit at his local ski resort in Hudson Valley, New York — where the Dodgers fan recently decamped from Los Angeles — when he dreamed up Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses, a collection of oversized sunglasses created for the sun and snow. He teamed with polarized eyewear company Revo — known for its lenses developed with NASA in the mid-1980s — to manufacture the line of statement-making reflective sunnies with UVA/UVB protection. The new venture joins his spirits company, Mulholland Distilling, which he co-founded with cinematographer Mathew Alper, in 2017.
“I live 15 minutes from a ski resort — a small one but a great one,” Goggins tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ll usually go for a couple of hours midweek after I drop my son off at school. No one is there. One day I’d been skiing for a couple of hours. After I was sitting outside the lodge having a beer in front of a fire pit. I had my goggles around my neck. The wind picked up. I put them on and thought, I never want to take these off. Ever. They were just so comfortable. So cool.
I played sports growing up, I was a good athlete. Not a great athlete. But I always liked wearing the equipment — the cleats, the helmet, the gloves. And I thought, I’m probably not alone in this feeling. I’ve never seen goggles worn as streetwear. Yes, DO THAT! Let’s make equipment that we never have to take off! There’s always enough room in the console for one more pair.”
