Is it fashion or for skiing? How brands are swapping city suits for ski suits


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Aztech Mountain offers designs that are a fusion of fashion and function. Even ready-to-wear brands are swapping city suits for ski suits. Photo: The New York Times

If anyone knows a great ski jacket, it’s Bode Miller. The professional skier has tested countless ski brands over an 18-year career spanning five Winter Olympics, six Olympic medals and 33 World Cup wins.

But in 2015, while training in Portillo, Chile, he took a run in the Nuke Suit jacket by Aztech Mountain, a ski label founded by the Aspen, Colorado, couple Heifara Rutgers and David Roth.

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