The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket – Royal Blue

The Original. In Its Most Vivid Colour.

The The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Down Jacket in Royal Blue is the 1996 Retro Nuptse in the blue that refuses to be quiet. Navy makes its case with depth and heritage. Royal blue makes its case with presence — a vivid, saturated tone that gives the most iconic down jacket silhouette in the world a vitality and an immediacy that no other blue in the range achieves. This is the Nuptse with the volume turned up: the same iconic construction, the same legendary warmth, in a colour that stops traffic.

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 vivid and energetic blue 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
• Royal blue colourway — vivid, saturated, and unapologetically present, for those who want the full force of the Nuptse in a blue that makes no concessions to understatement
• 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

Royal Blue. The Nuptse at Full Saturation.

Navy whispers. Royal blue speaks. On the 1996 Retro Nuptse, the difference between the two blues is not just tonal — it is entirely about what the jacket is saying and how loudly it intends to say it. Royal blue brings a vibrancy and an energy to the Nuptse’s oversized quilted panels that the darker, more restrained end of the range never approaches: every seam catching light differently, every panel reading with a clarity and a saturation that makes the jacket’s architecture more visible, more dynamic, and more completely itself. This is the Nuptse for the person who wants blue — properly, fully, unapologetically blue. The North Face since 1966. The Nuptse, since 1996. Royal blue, at full volume.