The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket – Navy

The Original. In Its Most Timeless Colour.

The The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket in Navy is the 1996 Retro Nuptse in the colour that has never once gone out of style — and never will. Navy carries a depth and a heritage that black, for all its authority, does not quite possess: the richness of a colour that has dressed sailors, expeditioners, and the most classically minded people in every era for centuries. On the Nuptse, it gives the world’s most iconic down jacket a timeless quality that transcends season, trend, and context entirely.

Key Features

• 700-fill goose down insulation for the exceptional warmth-to-weight ratio that made the original Nuptse legendary
• Iconic quilted panelled construction — the design language that defined the oversized puffer silhouette, in the most classically enduring colourway in the range
• Faithful 1996 Retro reissue — original proportions, original panels, original attitude, restored with complete authenticity
• Boxy, oversized fit engineered for layering and the freedom of movement that expedition performance demands
• Navy colourway — deep, rich, and timelessly versatile, carrying centuries of heritage authority into the most iconic outerwear silhouette of the modern era
• Packable design — compresses into its own chest pocket for convenient storage and travel
• Embroidered The North Face logo — the mark of the brand that has equipped adventurers since 1966

Navy. The Nuptse That Lasts Forever.

There are colours that are fashionable and colours that are timeless. Navy has always been the latter — the colour that requires no justification, no seasonal context, and no trend to make it relevant, because it has always been relevant and always will be. On the 1996 Retro Nuptse, navy does something that no other colourway in the range achieves in quite the same way: it makes the jacket feel simultaneously of its time and completely outside of it. The deep, rich tone reads differently from black — warmer, more complex, more layered in its associations — while retaining all of black’s versatility and none of its severity. It works with everything. It suits everyone. It will look as right in twenty years as it does today. The North Face since 1966. The Nuptse, since 1996. Navy, forever.