The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket – Pink

The Original. In Its Most Confident Colour.

The The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket in Pink is the 1996 Retro Nuptse in the colour that requires the most of the person wearing it — and rewards them most generously for it. Pink on the Nuptse is not a soft choice. It is the boldest statement of self-assurance in the entire range: a colour worn by people who have no uncertainty about who they are, no concern about who is watching, and no interest in the opinion of anyone who might mistake confidence for anything else.

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 its most self-assured and culturally resonant colourway
• 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
• Pink colourway — vivid, deliberate, and completely unbothered, for those who wear the Nuptse entirely on their own terms
• 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

Pink. The Nuptse That Answers to No One.

Pink has never been a passive colour. On the 1996 Retro Nuptse — with its oversized volume, its bold quilted panelling, and its thirty years of cultural authority behind it — pink becomes something that turns every other colourway in the range into a question: why would you choose anything else? It is the colour that photographs best, that reads most immediately, and that carries the Nuptse’s iconic silhouette with a lightness and a joy that the darker, more serious colourways never quite achieve. This is the Nuptse worn at full confidence. The Nuptse worn for yourself. The Nuptse worn because no other jacket, in no other colour, makes quite the same argument. The North Face since 1966. The Nuptse, since 1996. Pink, because why not.