Alice Michel

Verbier / Valais, Switzerland | Active: 2021-present verified video record | Known for: Cute Café, Shy Latte, What Do You Mean?, Connected, Frozen Babiez, Bucket Clips | Current: Swiss street and park skier in women-led film projects

Fribourg Snow Before The Groupchat Fired Up

The park in Fribourg had just enough snow to become a street spot before the city took it back. Alice Michel arrived with Cute Café, shovels moving faster than the weather, friends watching the speed, someone laughing before the first hit. That kind of session explains her public ski identity better than a competition result ever could. Michel is not documented through World Cup slopestyle finals or X Games scorecards. Her strongest record lives in street films, women-led crews, Swiss park laps and projects where the work around the clip matters as much as the landing.

Verbier Ski Club Before Cute Café

Downdays traces Cute Café’s roots to Michel and Anouck Brodard, who have skied together since age seven at Verbier Ski Club. That detail gives the crew’s recent films a deeper base. Cute Café did not appear as a branding exercise or a single-season edit. It grew from years of shared skiing around Verbier, Leysin and western Switzerland, first through iPhone clips in the park and later through street sessions. For Michel, that origin matters because her current role is not only as a rider. She is one of the people holding the group’s memory, rhythm and purpose together.

Connected With Rosina Friedel

Connected, released in 2021, gave Michel one of her first stronger international film markers. The project was made by Rosina Friedel and el.Makrell, with riding by Friedel, Michel and Stefanie Mössler, cinematography and cut by Ludwig Hagelstein, and color by Lucas Cairns. The film moved between street and powder, using skiing as the reason three women from different places could share a project. For Michel, Connected became more than a credit. She later pointed to filming with Friedel as a practical education in how a ski movie can be organized, shaped and shared.

In Your Dreams And The Female-Focused Film Thread

In Your Dreams placed Michel inside another women-centered freeski project. Laura Obermeyer’s film brought together athletes including Anna Tedesco, Kellyn Wilson, Skye Clarke, Mckenna Brown, Shonny Charbonneau, Cat Agnew, Rosina Friedel, Alice Michel and Tereza Korabova, with locations including British Columbia, Neuchâtel, Teton Valley, Aspen and the Twin Cities. The film’s stated aim was representation in creative ski spaces, and that context fits Michel’s archive well. Her career is not built around one discipline. It moves through park, street, powder touches, shared filming trips and the social architecture of women making their own ski media.

Shy Latte And The First Café Pour

Shy Latte became Cute Café’s first clear public film marker. Newschoolers lists the 2024 project as a collection of good times on skis and snowboard, featuring Anouck Brodard, Alice Michel, Eva-Maria Kobel, Elsa Sjöstedt, Anne-so De Pesters, Jennica Folkesson, friends, Martina Windlin and Shannon Sweeney. The title gives the right mood: informal, soft-edged, but still built on real skiing. It is not a contest film pretending to be a hangout. It is a hangout that still produces clips: rails, small street spots, resort features, b-roll, crashes, hugs and the kind of footage that makes a season feel held together.

What Do You Mean? In Switzerland And Sweden

What Do You Mean? sharpened Cute Café’s identity. Downdays described the film as primarily shot in Switzerland with a Swedish trip layered in, built around street skiing, freeride and b-roll. The rider list includes Anouck Brodard, Eva-Maria Kobel, Jenn Folkesson, Alice Michel, Martina Windlin and Elsa Sjöstedt. The features were not oversized set pieces. The film used roof spots, rock jibs, natural speed, shovel pulls and small urban setups where the crew’s energy stayed visible. Michel’s interview framed the project as a memory of the season, made for the group first and shared with the ski community afterward.

Music, Friends And The Café Method

Michel’s role inside Cute Café reaches beyond skiing the clips. In the Downdays interview, she explained that the crew tries to use music made by women and to bring positive feminine energy into the videos. That detail matters because it shows editorial intention. Cute Café is not only changing who appears in a ski film; it is changing how the film feels. The sessions are coordinated through groupchats and sleepovers, with different friends joining depending on snow, location and availability. Michel’s skiing sits inside that method: less hierarchy, more shared labor, and a film language where support is not edited out.

Frozen Babiez And The Heavier Street Side

Frozen Babiez added a harder street marker to Michel’s archive. Downdays listed the all-female street film with Hannah Langes, Alice Michel, Nivi Sachse, Ellen Damsgaard, Maya Casier and Isabella Tvede-Jensen, made by Maya Casier, Ellen Damsgaard and Isabella Tvede-Jensen. The project was described around legitimate spots, smooth filmmaking and the progression of female street skiing. For Michel, that appearance is useful because it proves her profile is not limited to the lighter Cute Café tone. She also belongs in projects where handrails, city features, slams, pull-ins and technical street pressure sit closer to the center.

Bucket Clips And The FLINTA Network

Bucket Clips 4 placed Michel inside a wider FLINTA and female freeski movement. Prime Skiing and iF3 list her in the 2025 mixtape alongside Amanda Krüttli, Anouck Brodard, Audrey Friess, Ellen Damsgaard, Finley Good, Jennica Folkesson, Marion Balsamo, Rylie Warnick, Rosina Friedel, Sage Michaely and many others. The project mixed street, powder and park submissions with organized trips and community premieres. That format matches the direction of Michel’s career. Her relevance is not one isolated part. It is her presence in a growing network where women and FLINTA skiers are building their own distribution, sessions, visuals and history.

How Michel Skis Small Terrain

Michel’s skiing is best understood through feature reading rather than trick inflation. The verified projects around her point toward rails, roof edges, rock jibs, park lines, shovel-pull street spots, powder touches, low-speed entries and shared setups. She does not need a huge jump line to make a clip work. Her strongest lane is terrain that requires patience: enough speed to reach the feature, enough balance to stay on metal, enough body control to keep the trick clean, and enough awareness to leave space for the crew, the camera and the moment after the landing.

The Alice Michel Lane Now

Alice Michel’s verified profile is creative, community-driven and film-first. The public archive is coherent: Verbier Ski Club roots with Anouck Brodard, Connected with Rosina Friedel, In Your Dreams, Shy Latte, What Do You Mean?, Frozen Babiez and Bucket Clips 4. There is not enough reliable public information to build a major contest biography or full sponsor timeline, but there is enough to define her importance inside women-led street and park skiing. Her current value comes from building scenes, not only clips: Cute Café, groupchat missions, Swiss street spots, FLINTA film networks and the idea that skiing can be serious without becoming closed or cold.