WINTERING CAPSULE COLLECTION

Tekla and AURALEE are back with a second capsule, almost exactly two years after their first. This time the pair turn away from Japanese bathhouses and toward Tekla's home ground of Scandinavia, with a collection built around the idea of wintering: staying in, keeping warm, and making the house the counterweight to the cold outside. It goes on sale on Wednesday 28 October.

The two labels come from opposite ends of the same sensibility. AURALEE is a Tokyo label founded in 2015 by designer Ryota Iwai, known for starting every season with fabric research. Tekla is a Copenhagen company established in 2017, which began with bedding and has since extended into towels, sleepwear and clothing. Their first collaboration, in October 2024, was inspired by the ritual of returning from an onsen on a cold evening and covered towels, sleepwear, outerwear and accessories.

The new range runs across knitwear, sleepwear, slippers, bed linen, blankets and accessories. According to trade coverage, the knitwear is a 70% wool, 30% cashmere blend in two colours, Forest Green and Soil Brown, cut as crewneck cardigans and boatneck sweaters with matching arm and neck warmers. Sleepwear returns in brushed organic cotton flannel in a purple-and-orange check called Dawn Checks. The campaign images, shot in snow, also show shearling slippers and a cream wool blanket with green stripes.

Both brands say each piece reflects the craftsmanship, quality and functional beauty they share, and the palette is deliberately common across clothes and home textiles.

The collection is released on 28 October through the AURALEE online store, where sales open at 6:00 pm JST, and through Tekla's own site. It will also be sold at both brands' stores and a list of partners including MR PORTER, NET-A-PORTER, AURALEE TOKYO, the Isetan Shinjuku and Hankyu Umeda branches, DOVER STREET MARKET GINZA, and Tekla's Copenhagen and Marylebone shops. Prices were not published in the sources consulted.