Aimé Leon Dore and The North Face Take the City Back Outside
Aimé Leon Dore x The North Face present their second capsule collection, and thee Fall/Winter 2026 pieces reinterpret classic The North Face gear through Teddy Santis’ very New York lens — technical enough for actual weather, polished enough to walk straight off the mountain and into the city.
This second installment stretches across 30 pieces, rooted in alpine heritage but dressed with the nostalgic, considered styling Aimé Leon Dore has made its own. The collaboration officially arrived September 17 after the brands began teasing pieces from the collection earlier in the week.
For Santis, the point is not simply stamping two logos on outdoor staples. He says the partnership is built around a shared respect for heritage, purpose and the outdoors, then filtered through ALD so the pieces feel functional, thoughtful and made to stick around longer than one season.
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Aimé Leon Dore x The North Face FW26
The second chapter brings together alpine heritage, New York polish and a 30-piece lineup loaded with updated North Face icons.
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GORE-TEX Is Back in the Mix
One of the collection’s biggest technical moves is the return of GORE-TEX to a The North Face collaboration for the first time since 2019. The reworked Mountain Jacket 2000 gets a seam-sealed, three-layer GORE-TEX construction, keeping the familiar silhouette while giving it the weather protection its name deserves.
The Pertex Nuptse also gets worked over, now hooded and reversible with Cloud Down construction. It is still recognizably one of The North Face’s most famous shapes, but ALD pulls it into a wardrobe where a technical puffer can sit beside trousers, shirting and a tie without looking like somebody got dressed in two different apartments.
The Archive Gets Raided, but Not Just for Nostalgia
The pair also reach backward through The North Face archive. A Heli Vest inspired by late-1990s alpine gear returns to the conversation, while the Denali gets another rethink and a new Fleece Rugby silhouette loosens up the technical layering with something more collegiate.
Then there is the Ballistic Tech Vest, which pulls from the brand’s ’90s utility language. That piece gets right to the heart of why this partnership works: ALD likes clothes with history already baked into them, while The North Face has decades of functional design sitting there waiting to be recontextualized.
From the Andes to New York, Same Clothes, Different Altitude
The campaign carries that mountain-to-city idea literally. Its accompanying film moves from the Andes to New York City, featuring actor Keith W. Richards and Chilean mountaineer Cristián García-Huidobro. One landscape is wide, cold and quiet; the other is New York. You already know she is not quiet.
Footwear keeps the same split personality with the Base Camp Mule and Verto Alpine GORE-TEX Hiking Shoes, while the accessories extend through the Base Camp Duffel, caps, scarves and gloves. Nothing needs to pretend it came from somewhere else — this is outdoor equipment being invited into a city wardrobe without losing the point of why it existed in the first place.
Dig into the FW26 lookbook below. Aimé Leon Dore keeps the polish, The North Face keeps the utility, and somewhere between the two sits a collection that looks perfectly happy whether the forecast says mountain snow or Manhattan slush.
Sources: Aimé Leon Dore / The North Face / FY Magazine! Images: Aimé Leon Dore / The North Face.
