The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket — Teal

The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket — Teal

Teal is the colour that sits at the precise, unhurried meeting point of blue and green — and in doing so, inherits the best of both without being entirely either. It carries the depth and cool authority of blue, the natural groundedness and outdoor resonance of green, and the particular, restless energy of a colour that has never quite settled for belonging to only one part of the spectrum. On the 1996 Retro Nuptse, teal is the unexpected discovery — the colourway that stops the scroll, that makes the room look twice and that carries the jacket's iconic oversized baffles and thirty-year heritage in the tone that feels, above all others in the range, like finding something you didn’t know you were looking for and understanding, the moment you find it, that it was always exactly what you wanted. Teal is the Nuptse for the genuinely curious. And the genuinely curious always find the best things.

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 teal — the original's oversized baffles and precisely proportioned puffer design in the unexpectedly rare, atmospherically distinctive colourway that sits at the most considered and unhurried meeting point of blue and green 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 its most atmospherically distinctive and genuinely surprising colourway
• The North Face heritage branding — the half-dome logo and Nuptse wordmark in teal: the outdoor brand's most iconic piece in the colourway that carries the blue's cool depth and the green's natural groundedness in the most considered and harmonious single tone the range offers
• Authentic 1996 Retro construction and detailing — faithfully restored from the original, in the colourway that gives the Nuptse's iconic silhouette its most atmospherically distinctive, most unexpectedly considered and most genuinely rewarding expression

Styling Tips

Teal rewards the wearer with a considered, complementary palette that matches its own thoughtful, in-between character — over a cream or white base with straight dark or mid jeans and clean white leather trainers or tan suede boots for a clean, fresh look where the teal Nuptse's atmospheric, blue-green colourway carries the outfit's palette with the kind of unexpected, quietly striking authority that makes people look and then look again, or over a navy or dark teal knit with straight dark jeans and clean white trainers for a deeper, more tonal look that leans into the teal Nuptse's blue heritage and produces the most harmonious and considered single-colourway depth of the entire range — the choice of the wearer who has thought about it, found teal, and understood immediately that there was never going to be another answer.