Colmar approaches the mountain the way a good tailor approaches a red carpet fitting: nothing is accidental, everything serves the body. The brand’s newest ski line is built for subzero air, speed, and exposure, but it speaks in the language of fashion. It’s technical gear with real performance credibility — waterproofing, insulation, engineered stretch — but also the kind of silhouette that looks composed when you slide out of your bindings and into an après lounge. This is ski wear as wardrobe.
For women, the statement look is a tight, edited pairing: a short, quilted ski jacket and a stretch salopette that works like a tailored jumpsuit once you’re zipped in. The jacket tells you immediately what Colmar is doing this season. It’s cut cropped, closer to the body than a standard alpine puffer, and it comes in a jacquard polyester with a houndstooth motif. The pattern reads luxe and city-sharp, but the construction is fully performance. The fabric is laminated, waterproof, and breathable, so it can hold up in bad weather without feeling suffocating. Inside, the jacket is filled with water-repellent down (DWR down, for people who actually ski in snow, not just in photos), and the lining has comfort stretch with graphene fibers to distribute warmth evenly. The result is serious thermal protection that’s designed to keep your core warm even in truly cold conditions. Colmar calls it extra warm, and you can feel why: it’s the kind of insulation that lets you stay out for a last run instead of retreating to the lodge.
The practicality is handled in a very Italian way — discreet, engineered, and a little obsessive. There’s a detachable powder skirt for when you’re actually on the mountain, interior pockets, a dedicated ski pass pocket, a key hook, waterproof YKK zippers, and pre-shaped sleeves with soft inner cuffs to seal out the air. Nothing breaks the line of the jacket, which keeps a regular fit that moves with you instead of swallowing you. It doesn’t read bulky, it reads intentional.
The matching salopette is built in super-stretch softshell, and this is where you feel the shift from “outerwear” to “bodywear.” The fabric is water-repellent, with a breathable membrane rated to a 5,000 mm water column — in plain language, it’s designed to keep you dry when you’re in contact with snow, not just when you’re standing around looking photogenic. The inside is lined with soft fleece for comfort against the skin, and the cut is ergonomic, so the suit bends, drops, and carves with you instead of fighting your movement. At the hem and knees, the details are pure function: snow gaiter on the inside to lock out powder, pre-shaped knees, reinforced inserts at the bottom to protect from ski edges, and again, waterproof YKK zippers. The whole piece works like sculpted performance tailoring. You get warmth, protection, and freedom of movement, but the silhouette stays sleek.
Together, the jacket and salopette deliver something that matters on the mountain right now: a look that feels fashion-editor approved, but is actually made to ski. The jacket does the polished visual storytelling — short, graphic, plush, with that houndstooth texture and high-fill warmth — while the salopette is cut to flatter and function at once. You don’t have to choose between real technical gear and a great shape. Colmar gives you both in a clean two-piece system that’s as confident in motion as it is in a chalet booth under low lighting.
For men, Colmar is building a modular language around protection, movement, and heat control. The men’s look is structured as a full snow suit with mix-and-layer potential, built for people who actually want to stay out in every possible condition. The outer shell is a three-layer stretch nylon with a recycled membrane. That matters for two reasons. First, performance: the shell is fully waterproof, breathable, and completely taped at the seams, so you’re sealed against wet snow and wind. Second, mobility: there’s 12% elastane in the fabric, which is a generous amount for technical alpine outerwear. On the body, it means total freedom to move. You can sit on the lift, cut hard, adjust stance — the shell flexes with you instead of locking you into that stiff, armored feeling a lot of pro-level gear still has.
Colmar also thinks in systems. The shell is compatible with ski jackets from the collection, so you can build a layered setup that adapts to weather fast. The suit also integrates a Recco reflector, which is the kind of detail mountain people clock immediately. Recco technology is designed to support search and rescue location; having it built in is an incredibly functional safety layer that feels very current in true alpine gear.
Underneath, the men’s line introduces a jacket that can be read two ways: it acts as an insulating mid-layer when you’re on the slopes, and it stands alone as a winter jacket off the slopes. The fabric mix is smart. Colmar pairs a matte polyester with a “peach touch” finish — that soft, almost brushed hand that feels expensive — with elasticized softshell panels, so you get warmth, flexibility, and a cleaner visual surface than a conventional puffer. The fill is Microflock Re-padding in recycled polyester. It’s light, it traps heat, and it leans into circularity without compromising comfort. You can wear it as a mid-layer under the shell without bulk, or on its own in town. It works as gear, but it also works as clothes.
Then there are the cargo ski pants, which act like the final link between technical function and visual identity. These pants are done in stretch fabric that’s both waterproof and breathable, lined with stretch to keep them comfortable and mobile, and insulated with Clomax Flex4way. Clomax Flex4way is built for thermal isolation and movement; here, it’s made using 75% post-consumer recycled fibers. That blend matters for performance and for footprint. You end up with a pant that’s warm, protective, weather-ready, and cut like a proper cargo trouser instead of a swollen tube. The pocketing is intentional, and the cargo language gives a subtle utility aesthetic that sits right in the current men’s mood.
What emerges from the men’s direction is a technical wardrobe, not just a ski outfit. There’s a protective shell that can take a storm, an insulated jacket that can go mid-layer or standalone, and pants that look modern while handling full alpine exposure. Everything is engineered, taped, sealed, articulated. Everything is also styled. The fabrics are matte and refined, the proportions are contemporary, and the sustainability conversation is woven directly into the fills and membranes rather than marketed as an afterthought.
Colmar is playing to both sides of the mountain experience: the pleasure (the ritual, the image, the après) and the performance (the cold, the speed, the terrain). It’s alpine dressing with discipline and modern polish — made to be worn in the snow and photographed in the bar.
