The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket – Purple

The Original. In Its Most Singular Colour.

The The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket in Purple is the 1996 Retro Nuptse for those who looked at every other colourway in the range and found them all slightly too expected. Purple occupies territory that no other colour in the Nuptse palette reaches: deeper than pink, more complex than burgundy, more enigmatic than navy, and entirely unbothered by the question of whether it is the obvious choice. It is not. That is precisely the point.

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 range’s most singular and creatively 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
• Purple colourway — rich, complex, and completely individual, for those who wear the Nuptse as an expression of creative identity rather than collective consensus
• 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

Purple. The Nuptse That Chose You Back.

There is a version of the Nuptse for everyone. Most people find their colourway quickly: black for authority, cream for elevation, navy for timelessness, orange for energy. Purple is for the person who went through all of those and kept looking — the person for whom the obvious answer has never been satisfying and the most considered choice is always the one that takes the longest to arrive at. On the 1996 Retro Nuptse, purple gives the iconic silhouette a depth and a complexity that sits differently from every other colour in the range: rich enough to command attention, unusual enough to reward it, and singular enough to feel like a choice that belongs entirely and only to the person wearing it. The North Face since 1966. The Nuptse, since 1996. Purple, for those who kept looking.