Replying to Motorcycle Jackets?

Faux-leather motorcycle jackets may be the move for east coast skiing and urban. Not great for powder I imagine but they are designed to fight road rash, so I imagine them holding up to crashes on icy-ass eastern slopes or concrete. Plus a lot of them come with armor (granted mostly on irrelevant places for skiiers like shoulders back and elbows) and look pretty hot, and are waterproof sometimes too. If someone sold a version with rib/flank armor I'm sure they would sell like hotcakes.