How Aimé Leon Dore's Delivery 3 Uses Travis Bennett to Reframe the West Coast

The third delivery of Aimé Leon Dore's Spring/Summer 2026 collection lands Thursday March 26 at 11am ET, in-store and online. Travis Bennett fronts the campaign, photographed by Liam MacRae. The collection is described by ALD as a west coast interpretation of the brand's New York aesthetic: sportswear and heritage dressed in California proportions. That sentence does a lot of work. ## Liam MacRae's Camera and What ALD Is Asking of Travis Bennett Liam MacRae has shot ALD's recent campaign work with a naturalistic precision that distinguishes the brand from the still-life product photography that dominates most contemporary streetwear lookbooks. His approach places the subject in environment rather than extracting them from it. Travis Bennett, best known as Taco from Odd Future and as a member of The Internet, brings associations that span Los Angeles underground music, skateboarding, and precisely the kind of low-key cultural currency that ALD has always recruited rather than manufactured. The casting is doing what ALD casting always does. It does not hire celebrities to be celebrities. It hires people whose actual lives are legible through the clothes. Bennett's aesthetic operates out of a specific Los Angeles moment, late 2000s through the 2010s, where skatewear, hip-hop, and a certain kind of California nonchalance merged into a coherent sensibility. That sensibility is exactly what ALD's SS26 Delivery 3 is translating into their New York vocabulary. ## Sportswear Meets Heritage: What the Collection Actually Contains ALD's SS26 has been arriving in deliveries since February, with Delivery 2 in March featuring linen cable knits and officer pants. Delivery 3 extends the sportswear strand while maintaining the natural fabric palette. The brand's creative director Teddy Santis, who simultaneously oversees New Balance's Made in USA program since 2022, runs ALD on a seasonal delivery model that allows him to build a collection narrative rather than presenting everything at once. The fabric choices in Delivery 3 favor cotton jersey, open-knit structures, and the warm-weather weights that ALD established as core to their SS calendar beginning with their early 2020 collections. The silhouettes lean toward their recognizable relaxed tailoring, shirts with generous collars, pants with a mid-rise ease, outerwear in lighter cottons. Nothing in this collection has been engineered through a trend report. It is dressed for the kind of day Bennett looks like he is having in the campaign images. ## ALD's West Coast Logic Is About Texture, Not Geography When ALD describes Delivery 3 as a west coast interpretation of their aesthetic, they are not announcing a Los Angeles pop-up or a California collaboration. They are describing a tonal shift. The west coast, in ALD's framework, means outdoor ease rather than indoor precision. It means sun-bleached colors over saturated ones. It means Bennett's wardrobe reading like something worn by someone who drove from Silver Lake to Malibu with no particular agenda. This is consistent with how ALD has handled cultural reference since Santis founded the brand in Queens in 2014. The New York baseline is always present, but the collection breathes through whatever external influence is being channeled. Delivery 2 was tailored and European. Delivery 3 is relaxed and coastal. Both are ALD. ## 11am ET, March 26, and the ALD Drop Protocol The brand releases everything at 11am ET across in-store and online simultaneously. No waitlist. No priority access by membership tier. This is consistent across all ALD deliveries and reflects the same philosophy that has governed the brand since its earliest drops out of the Queens flagship. The ALD x New Balance Made in USA 1300, in navy suede with yellow accents, ships in the same drop window. That collab has a documented sellout history; the 2021 pink colorway at $180 sold through immediately and reached $300 to $400 on secondary markets within days. The 1300 in navy and gold will face the same math. The Delivery 3 ready-to-wear surrounding it benefits from the same traffic. Santis has built ALD into a brand that functions as a complete wardrobe system rather than a series of hype items. Delivery 3 reinforces that. Travis Bennett and Liam MacRae make it look like the obvious choice for anyone who already owns the rest.