ALD AND UGG PUT METHOD MAN AND REDMAN ON A HARLEM STOOP

Aimé Leon Dore and UGG release their first collaboration on Thursday, November 12, 2026: a slipper in two colorways, Goldenrod and Dark Coffee Bean, with debossed UGG branding beside Aimé Leon Dore's Queens Crest. Method Man and Redman front the campaign, a video and a set of stills in which the two longtime friends talk, unscripted, on a Harlem stoop while wearing the shoe.

Two Colorways and Two Marks

The Aimé Leon Dore x UGG slipper comes in Goldenrod and Dark Coffee Bean, a golden yellow and a dark brown. The branding is the collaboration: UGG's mark is debossed into the shoe and the Queens Crest from Aimé Leon Dore sits alongside it, pressed into the material instead of printed on it. A debossed mark reads quietly from across a room and clearly up close.

Footwear News reported the details of the release, and Complex and Sole Retriever covered the campaign. None of the coverage indexed so far gives a retail price, so the cost is still unconfirmed. The slipper will be sold at Ugg.com, aimeleondore.com, select UGG stores worldwide, Aimé Leon Dore's flagship stores and select retail partners.

Method Man and Redman on the Stoop

The campaign is built on conversation. Method Man and Redman sit on a Harlem stoop in the slippers and talk, with the footage presented as unscripted, and the coverage ties the pairing to the legacies of Wu Tang Clan and Def Squad. The shoe is a slipper, a house shoe, and a stoop is the place where a New York neighborhood does its talking, so the casting and the setting put a soft shoe outdoors, on the sidewalk side of the door.

The two are among rap's best known duos, and the choice gives the collaboration a reference point that has nothing to do with a sneaker silhouette.

UGG Has Done This Twice in Four Weeks

The slipper is the second named collaboration UGG has put out in a month, and Footwear News counts it as the third major collaboration release from UGG this fall. On October 15 it launched its first collaboration with JW Anderson, reworking the Classic Boot and the Tasman as a Loafer and a Loafer Boot, at $300 and $400, with Blood Orange's Dev Hynes fronting the campaign. Retailers included Selfridges, The Webster and Lane Crawford, alongside Ugg.com and JWAnderson.com. Three days later, on October 18, a Kith exclusive Tasman Woven pack arrived in Forest Night, Chestnut and Black at $205 each. Four weeks after the JW Anderson launch, Aimé Leon Dore adds a different register: an American label from Queens, not a London designer, and a slipper instead of a boot.

That run sits inside a larger one. UGG has spent 2026 widening the cast, from Central Cee and Su Yiming in the spring to Willy Chavarria in Paris on June 26, to the Born to Feel platform in September and Yeat in the holiday campaign unveiled on November 2. Each addition has pulled the brand further from the couch. A rap duo on a stoop pulls it somewhere new again: the neighborhood.

ALD's Fall Has Been a Footwear Season

Aimé Leon Dore has been busy at the foot. On October 9 its Fall Winter 2026 Delivery 2 added an Italian made calfskin Field Boot with a Vibram sole and New Balance T500 and Gator colorways, alongside a Gore Tex fishtail parka. The brand then ran a second Olympiacos F.C. project, titled on October 21, and a women's Fall Winter collection on October 30. In early November SONNY New York 2026 sent three New York high school players to the brand's Masaryk Community Gym for a preseason workout, with a New Balance capsule on sale that Thursday.

Seen together, the slipper is the soft end of a fall that has also included a boot, a New Balance capsule and a basketball gym. It gives the brand a footwear line that runs from the court to the couch.

What Arrives on Thursday

The release is two colorways of one slipper, sold online on two sites and in two sets of stores. UGG's debossed mark sits next to Aimé Leon Dore's Queens Crest, and the shoe goes on sale in the Aimé Leon Dore flagships as well as UGG's own.