Following its success in outfitting Team USA Medical Team for the 2024 Paris Olympics, FIGS is returning to the Games as the first-ever brand to outfit the Team USA Medical Team at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The healthcare apparel brand will provide performance-driven scrubs for over 150 healthcare professionals at the Games. As a part of the collaboration, FIGS teamed up with Lindsey Vonn to not only honor the healthcare professionals who made her comeback possible, but the numerous others who work behind the scenes to improve elite athletes' performance and recovery. 

"When you when you watch television commercials around the Olympics, they're showing the athlete, but they don't show all the people behind the scenes that helped get that person to where they are," FIGS co-founder Trina Spears said. "To show their resilience and their grit and what it takes to do what they do was super important to us, and we wanted to tell that story."

Spears founded FIGS with fellow co-founder Heather Hasson nearly 13 years ago when Hasson had a conversation with a nurse practitioner friend of hers and realized she spent 16-hour workdays in boxy and uncomfortable scrubs. Hasson partnered with Spears to create a company dedicated to creating technically advanced apparel and products for healthcare professionals. Since its founding, the California-based company has made a name for itself on the global stage, representing healthcare workers on a variety of platforms such as the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards, when the brand made a tuxedo — the first to be designed by a scrubwear company, — for The Pitt actor Noah Wyle.

"Everything that we aim to do is first and foremost create the best quality, functional, comfortable technical healthcare apparel in the world," Spears said. "That's our No. 1 job. Our second job is to put healthcare professionals on a pedestal, give them a podium of their own."

The partnership with Team USA came about after Hasson asked a friend who worked with the group that sponsors the team's medical professionals. The friend mentioned that the medical team wore regular clothing and had no official sponsor.

"It was so crazy to us that Nike and Ralph Lauren have these amazing platforms to back the athlete, but there was nobody that was supporting and showing up for the medical team," Spears said.

Thus, a partnership was born. FIGS made history at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games when they became the first brand to sponsor over 250 healthcare professionals supporting Team USA athletes at the Games.

This year, the FIGS x Team USA collection is a part of a larger campaign to unveil the medical innovation, dedication, belief that the medical professionals have in an athlete's recovery when treating them to return to competition. FIGS has transformed the healthcare uniform industry with various versions of technically advanced scrubs designed for comfort and performance. The Olympic collection features a new fabric, FiberX, meant to withstand the extreme temperatures in Milan and Cortina. 

"That's what we became famous for," Spears said. "It's the best fabric in the market, and it's really great from a whole host of dynamic elements. It's really technical and functional. It took us about two years just to design that fabric."

The pinnacle of the collection is the brand's signature red scrub jumpsuit, which made its return to these Games in the FiberX fabric. The piece came about as a way to fix the looseness of scrub pants and tops, adding other useful anecdotes like water-resistant fabric and additional pockets to hold miscellaneous items while on the go. Other standouts include outerwear, knitwear, and accessories in a patriotic red, white, and blue color palette.

"This is a natural extension of all the ways that we want to really get the world behind our community, show up and serve them with great product, but also celebrate them on the world's biggest stages," Spears said.

The addition of Vonn as an investor and brand ambassador has lifted the brand's messaging. Her partnership with FIGS spotlights the five members of her healthcare team, including Dr. Tom Hackett, Dr. Mondo González, Lindsey Winninger, Lorenzo Gonzalez and Shawna Niles. All five were crucial in getting Vonn back into competition after a Mako partial knee replacement.

"My medical team is essential, not just for fixing injuries, but for optimizing the hours of work in the gym and on the mountain," Vonn said. "They help keep my body and mind ready for the intensity of competition and life in general."

The 2010 Olympic champion has suffered multiple serious injuries throughout her international career, with her right knee taking the brunt of the damage. She eventually announced her retirement in 2019 due to the pain. A a partial titanium knee replacement in April 2024 changed everything. 

"Lindsey falls outside of the general population," Hackett said. "We had a lot of very frank discussions with as much clarity as possible on the fact that this is something that's not really tested. This is something that we don't have a long track record of evidence-based outcome studies to lean on. The decision, ultimately with Lindsay, was one that was done with the input of many leading international scholars on whether it's a good idea to try this or not."

Days after the procedure, she could bend and straighten her knee freely, a feat that seemed nearly impossible in 2019. The recovery spurred her to try her hand at racing again, and by December 2024, she was back on the World Cup circuit. She's returned to her dominant form, winning two World Cup events this season ahead of her return to the Olympic Games.

"She's developed a whole new set of strengths on her musculoskeletal system, as well as a level of mental toughness that she's been able to work on and cement in place," Hackett said. "She's had time to get even better."

Hackett joined Vonn in Italy following her crash in Crans Montana, Switzerland, and subsequent ACL tear. Despite the tear, the 41-year-old completed several successful downhill training runs and is expected to compete in the women's downhill event on Sunday, Feb. 8.