Cecilie Bahnsen Gives The North Face Puffer a Floral Crop

Four collaborations in, the Danish designer returns to The North Face with seven FW26 pieces: a cropped Nuptse, appliquéd bags and a hiking boot with a sculptural streak.

The Nuptse has been cut short and covered in flowers. That is the headline of the fourth collaboration between Cecilie Bahnsen and The North Face, a seven-piece Fall Winter 2026 collection that lands on November 2.

Bahnsen is known for a feminine, romantic way of designing. The North Face is known for clothes meant to survive weather. Four rounds in, the two have stopped looking like an odd couple and started looking like a habit. The new collection keeps at the same experiment: what happens to practical outdoor gear when you treat it as something to decorate?

The puffer, abridged

The lead piece is the Lucia Nuptse Short Jacket. The Nuptse is The North Face’s best-known puffer, and Bahnsen’s version has a cropped silhouette and Superpose floral embroidery. The embroidery adds texture to the insulated shell. The shorter proportions change the jacket’s shape while keeping it recognisably part of the brand’s outerwear family.

Two more garments complete the clothing. The Sofia Insulated Crew Neck Top is another insulated layer. The Symone Dotknit Top brings technical fabric into Bahnsen’s design language. Each of the three explores a different side of functional dressing, and Bahnsen draws on The North Face’s archives throughout, updating familiar designs with embroidery, sculptural shapes and dimensional floral applications.

The palette is deliberately small: TNF Black and Midnight Sky. With colour held back, the work shows up in the surfaces and the construction. A flower stitched onto dark fabric has nowhere to hide, which is presumably the point.

Bags and boots with flowers on

The accessories get most of the attention. The Meghan Small Crevasse Cinch Bag and the Amalia Waist Pack both carry dimensional floral appliqués and custom hardware. The formats are ones you already know, a drawstring pouch and a belt bag, and the flowers link them to the rest of the range.

Footwear makes up the last two pieces. The Martina Verto Alpine Mid is a rugged hiking boot that Bahnsen reworks with her sculptural approach to design while keeping its technical outdoor roots. The Angela ThermoBall Mule is the easier option, putting insulated comfort into the lineup for anyone who wants the flowers without the trail.

Across all seven pieces, the idea is that decorative technique can change how a technical product looks. Embroidery, appliqué and altered proportions give established outdoor styles a new visual direction, and the tight colour range ties outerwear, tops, bags and footwear together.

From the Paris runway to Refshaleøen

The collection had a public preview before the launch. Bahnsen first showed it at her Fall Winter 2026 presentation during Paris Fashion Week, so the pieces went from runway to release rather than appearing from nowhere. The designer applies her romantic aesthetic to clothes made for outdoor activity and for everyday wear.

The campaign was shot by photographer Pia Riverola in Refshaleøen, an industrial area of Copenhagen. Athletes Iris Pham and Molly Thompson-Smith appear alongside models. The industrial backdrop puts the collection’s technical character in focus, and the story centres on movement, sisterhood and outdoor community, told through a group of women whose activities and interactions drive the imagery.

The setting suits the clothes. Concrete and flowers make an old pairing, and a puffer with embroidery looks as intended against a harbour-industrial landscape.

How to get it

The collection goes on sale November 2 through Cecilie Bahnsen’s own website. The North Face’s website and selected retailers follow with a wider release on November 5. That gives Bahnsen’s audience a three-day head start, which is a sensible reward for the people who have been following the partnership from the beginning.

As for why this pairing keeps coming back, the collection itself offers the clearest answer. Each season Bahnsen takes a piece with a clear job, such as warmth, carrying things or walking over rough ground. She then finds somewhere on it for a flower, and the garment still does its job afterwards. The fourth chapter does this with a cropped Nuptse, two bags, two tops and two shoes.

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