The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket — Pink

The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket — Pink

Pink on the Nuptse is not a softening — it is a statement. One of the most culturally loaded and joyfully self-aware colour choices in the entire range, the pink 1996 Retro Nuptse takes the jacket's thirty-year heritage, its iconic oversized baffles and its complete, unassailable authority in the outerwear canon and wraps them in the colourway that has spent the last decade moving from the margins of fashion to its absolute centre, bringing with it the particular, fearless energy of a colour that has always known it was more interesting than its detractors were willing to admit. Pink on the Nuptse is not for everyone. It is for the people who have always been ahead of everyone else and wear that fact as naturally as they wear the jacket itself — which is to say, effortlessly and without a second thought.

Product Highlights

• 700-fill goose down insulation for exceptional warmth-to-weight performance — the same specification that made the original 1996 Nuptse one of the most capable and culturally significant down jackets ever produced
• Iconic 1996 Retro silhouette in pink — the original's oversized baffles and precisely proportioned puffer design in the most culturally fearless, most joyfully self-aware and most unapologetically ahead-of-the-moment colourway in the entire 1996 Retro Nuptse range
• Packable design — compresses into its own pocket for effortless portability, carrying the Nuptse's full warmth and cultural authority in the colourway that has travelled furthest, fastest and most confidently from the margins to the centre of contemporary style
• The North Face heritage branding — the half-dome logo and Nuptse wordmark in pink: the outdoor brand's most iconic piece in the colourway that brings the Nuptse's outdoor heritage and streetwear authority into their most contemporary, most culturally alive and most fearlessly personal expression
• Authentic 1996 Retro construction and detailing — faithfully restored from the original, in the colourway that gives the Nuptse's iconic silhouette its most joyful, most culturally engaged and most unapologetically present-tense expression

Styling Tips

Pink rewards the wearer who commits — over a white or cream base with straight white or light jeans and clean white leather trainers for a bright, tone-on-tone look of complete, joyful confidence where the pink Nuptse's vivid, culturally alive colourway leads the outfit with the effortless, fearless authority of a piece that has always been exactly where the most interesting people already are, or over a chocolate brown or caramel knit with straight dark jeans and clean white trainers for a warmer, more unexpected contrast that pairs the pink Nuptse's vivid energy with the richest and most complementary base in the wardrobe and produces the kind of colour combination that only the most instinctively confident dressers think to reach for — and that only the best colourways on the best jackets can carry off with complete, effortless success.