AIME LEON DORE'S NORTH FACE CAPSULE SELLS AT TWO SITES

Aime Leon Dore posted a short reel of its North Face puffer jacket on September 13, four words in the caption and no price attached. Tomorrow, September 17, at 11 a.m. Eastern, that silence ends. The full Aime Leon Dore x The North Face Fall Winter 2026 capsule goes on sale at the same moment, in Aime Leon Dore's stores and online at both aimeleondore.com and thenorthface.com, the first time this partnership has sold anywhere outside Aime Leon Dore's own channels.

Two Clips Two Days Apart Carried No Price

Aime Leon Dore's puffer reel ran four words, FW26, tagging Aime Leon Dore and The North Face, with no release date and no link to buy. The Heli vest got a bigger production two days later, a helicopter on camera and commenters joking about the cost of the shoot before the caption ever named a number. Both videos used the same six words and neither pointed anywhere to buy. The rest of the capsule stayed off camera entirely while those two pieces got individual moments spaced across the same week. Tomorrow that changes, and the puffer and the vest join the rest of the capsule for sale at once instead of one clip at a time, the first moment either piece has had a price attached to it in public.

GORE TEX Returns To A North Face Label After Six Years

GORE TEX returns to a North Face labeled piece for the first time since 2019 inside this capsule, according to coverage of the collection, built as seam sealed three layer construction on a reworked Mountain Jacket 2000. The Nuptse in the same range moves to Pertex fabric with Cloud Down fill, cut hooded and reversible rather than the single sided shell Aime Leon Dore has used on past outerwear. A new Fleece Rugby silhouette and a Ballistic Tech Vest built around a 1990s reference point round out the technical side, alongside a Base Camp Duffel carrying the same materials treatment. Combined with the leather yoke puffer and the Heli vest already public, that puts at least six distinct silhouettes from The North Face through Aime Leon Dore's construction standards in one season, more pieces than either teaser video let on. It also sits inside a wider FW26 season that opened its Delivery 1 chapter on August 21 with a Suede Cafe Racer Jacket, a Technics Varsity Leather Jacket and Italian made Crest Saloni loafers, none of which came from The North Face at all. None of these specs have gotten a hands on look yet, so treat the fabric names as the brands' own claims until the capsule is in stores tomorrow.

Delivery 1 Sold At One Address. This Capsule Sells At Two.

Aime Leon Dore's FW26 Delivery 1 launched at its New York, London and Los Angeles stores and only at aimeleondore.com, the same single channel the label used for its New Balance running capsule in July. Every Aime Leon Dore release this year has funneled buyers to the label's own site regardless of who the collaborator was. Selling this capsule on thenorthface.com as well hands The North Face's own retail footprint, stores and traffic Aime Leon Dore does not otherwise reach, a direct role in a drop that would normally stay inside the label's tighter distribution. The Technics and GORE TEX partnerships running through the same FW26 season have not gotten that treatment, and neither has the Last Resort AB footwear debut Aime Leon Dore ran earlier in the year.

Teddy Santis Runs Four Collaborators Through One Season

Teddy Santis has now put four confirmed partners into a single Aime Leon Dore season: The North Face, Technics, GORE TEX and a debut footwear line with Last Resort AB. Only the North Face pairing got a two part video rollout before anything went on sale, first the puffer, then the vest, each with its own caption and nothing else. Delivery 1 itself never got that treatment; it arrived as a single lookbook covering tailoring, denim and outerwear together, with no individual piece pulled out for its own video. The same Delivery 1 lookbook also carried a New York Knicks cap with no partnership confirmed by either side, a detail the label has let sit unanswered since August without addressing it in either North Face video. Santis has built Aime Leon Dore's calendar around roughly two releases a month since February, and the North Face capsule is the one piece of that calendar getting the loudest advance notice and now the widest retail footprint.

Buy The Vest First, Skip The Duffel Debate

The Heli vest earns the advance hype it already got, a technical shape built to Aime Leon Dore's construction standard rather than a licensed logo swap, and it is the one piece of this capsule that justifies the helicopter budget behind its video. The Base Camp Duffel and Fleece Rugby read as season filler next to it, useful pieces that round out a collection rather than pieces anyone teased on their own. Two Instagram videos, zero prices, and a release now confirmed at two web addresses is a bigger distribution move for Aime Leon Dore than any single jacket in the drop, GORE TEX included. Aime Leon Dore has not sold a mainline collaboration through another brand's own site before this, and if tomorrow's dual listing moves inventory the way two price free teasers already suggest, The North Face should expect first call on the label's next collaboration slot ahead of Technics or Last Resort AB.