Metalwood Studio Opens Fall Winter 2026 on a New Site

Metalwood Studio's Fall Winter 2026 collection went on sale Friday, October 16, at 11AM PDT, on a rebuilt online store the Los Angeles label shut down five days earlier to finish. The launch images show Malcolm wearing the new pieces, shot by Ryan Thomas Murray and Chase Thompson. It is the label's first full seasonal collection since two adidas projects this year, one in golf and one in skateboarding.

Five Days Dark, Then 11AM

Metalwood closed its online shop on the evening of Sunday, October 11, and said the new site would open at 11AM PDT on Friday, October 16. The La Brea store, the label's Los Angeles shop, stayed open on normal hours throughout. On October 13 and October 14 the label repeated the date, described the Fall/Winter 2026 collection as arriving with a completely redesigned online shopping experience, and asked customers to join the newsletter to hear first.

The label paid for that sequence with five days of no online sales. In return the first customer of the new store saw the whole season at once, on a site built for it, and the La Brea shop kept a physical door open while the web store was dark.

Two Adidas Projects Came First

Metalwood did not arrive at this launch cold. On February 16, 2026, adidas and Metalwood released their first golf capsule, a six piece range of a polo, a windbreaker, a pant, a hat, a glove and exclusive MC70 golf footwear. On September 12, the adidas x Metalwood Predator Sala Core Black (HP4953) went on sale at Undefeated's Silver Lake and Phoenix stores, at Undefeated.com and at several skate retailers. It is the second Predator Sala colorway, after Vino, and its upper combines oiled nubuck, patent leather and nylon canvas.

The name comes from adidas football: Predator is the boot line adidas introduced in 1994, so the label now has a golf capsule and a shoe with a football pedigree in the same year. A campaign for that shoe used photographs by Ryan Thomas Murray and a film by Daniel Duarte, set on concrete. Murray is credited again on the Fall Winter 2026 launch images, so the label kept the same photographer from the skate shoe to its own collection. The two adidas projects sit in two different sports, golf in February and skateboarding in September, and the October collection is the label's own work between them.

Cole Young Played Division I First

Cole Young founded Metalwood Studio in Los Angeles in 2020. He is a former Division I golfer, and the label draws on the golf look of the 1990s and early 2000s, pulled toward streetwear. In 2024 it partnered with Maxfli, a golf ball maker, on an apparel collection that launched first on Metalwood's own online store. That detail matters now, because the shop that carried the Maxfli launch is the shop that was closed and rebuilt this week.

Retailers such as END. Clothing and SSENSE carry the brand, which gives the label a wholesale business alongside the direct one. The new site is the part Metalwood controls, and the La Brea store is the part customers can walk into on a Saturday. The newsletter sign up the label asked for on October 13 was its stated way to be first in line, which makes the email list the third channel in the launch after the site and the shop.

From Labor Day to the Launch

The label's own calendar shows the build. On September 3 it wrote that Summer 2026 was done and it was "time to kick it into overdrive for tha Fall/Winter seasons." On September 7, Labor Day, a site wide sale ended at 11:59PM PDT. In September it held a launch party on La Brea for the adidas Skateboarding collaboration, with music from cxchoi, beer from 805 and food from sweetgreen. Then came the October 11 closure and the October 16 launch.

That sequence reads as a release schedule: a summer sale to clear stock, a party to mark the skate shoe, a closed shop to switch the site, and a collection on a Friday morning. Each step had a date and a reason, and the label opened the new store on the Friday it named on October 11.

The collection itself is shown on Malcolm, and the label's account of it is short. The pieces are available on the new site now, and the La Brea store has been open the whole time.