Autumn Winter '26

For Autumn Winter '26 we returned to our roots, using nature as both our inspiration and backdrop. We've walked Simonside Hills of Northumberland, England many a time so it only felt right to shoot here, a personal favourite to visit on off days.

The colder months have brought heavier cloth and textured wool blends into the collection, along with a handful of new washes we’ve had in the works for a while, from the mud wash on the Ideal Jacket to the mineral washes on featured across our latest shirting.

Full-length view of the Café Mountain Johnson Crew Knit in Rose, worn over a check shirt and olive trousers on a moorland rock.

Café Mountain Johnson Crew Knit in Rose, in brushed British wool, with our Mountain Fleece Jacket draped over the shoulders on autumn moorland.

Close-up of the Café Mountain Johnson Crew Knit in Rose, made in Scotland, showing its brushed wool and ribbed cuff.

Café Mountain Patchwork Workers Jacket in Blue and Bark Patchwork, in Indian cotton, worn over an ecru shirt on autumn moorland.

Close-up of the stitched panels and corduroy collar on the Café Mountain Patchwork Workers Jacket in Blue and Bark Patchwork.

Café Mountain Heirloom Cotton Heritage Shirt in Washed Rose, with a single patch pocket, worn over a white tee against timber boards.

Café Mountain Heirloom Cotton Heritage Shirt in Washed Rose, a Japanese cotton linen blend, worn with olive trousers in low sun.

Close-up of the textured grey wool on the Café Mountain Casentino Wool Jacket, worn over a dark button-neck knit in autumn sun.

Café Mountain Casentino Wool Jacket in grey, worn with olive trousers and lace-up hiking shoes, seated on a lichen-covered rock.

The Ideal Jacket is new this season and the first piece we’ve built from a single piece upper, cut from a mud washed Japanese 70/30 cotton nylon blend with six pockets in total. The Telemark Mountain Jacket has been with us for a few seasons now, having begun life as a pullover smock inspired by the military and mountaineering jackets that came out of Scandinavia in the 1960s, and this season it returns in a Japanese 60/40 cotton nylon blend in Black and Moss.

The day also gave us our first proper look at the Casentino Wool Jacket out in the open, ahead of its arrival later this month. Its cloth is woven at a family-run mill in Stia, the Tuscan town where Casentino cloth has been made since the Middle Ages, and it is still finished with the curled nap the cloth has always been known for.

Under the outerwear, the Johnson Crew Knit and the Knitted Polo are made from 100% Scottish wool by a maker in Scotland who has been at it for just shy of a hundred years. Everything is made there, from the yarn to the finished garment, and each piece is brushed at the end, which you come to appreciate on a morning like that one.

Café Mountain Patchwork Heritage Shirt in Crazy Azure, a boxy cotton patchwork of blue, sage and yellow checks, in autumn bracken.

Close-up of the stitched check panels and chest pocket on the Café Mountain Patchwork Heritage Shirt in Crazy Azure.

Café Mountain Patchwork Heritage Shirt in Blue and Bark Patchwork, worn with olive trousers in heather above a green valley.

Close-up of the faded panels and contrast stitching on the Café Mountain Patchwork Heritage Shirt in Blue and Bark Patchwork.

Café Mountain Telemark Mountain Jacket in Black, worn with olive trousers and a grey beanie, leaning on a lichen-covered boulder.

Close-up of the hood and YKK gunmetal zip on the Café Mountain Telemark Mountain Jacket in Black, worn over a textured brown fleece.

Café Mountain Telemark Mountain Jacket in Black, in Japanese cotton and nylon with a 7 pocket set-up, against a lichen-covered rock.

Side view of the Café Mountain Tumble Check Heritage Shirt in Rusk, worn open over a striped tee with a rust beanie on the moor.

Café Mountain Tumble Check Heritage Shirt in Rusk, a Japanese cotton and kapok blend with dual patch pockets, under a blue sky.

Café Mountain Tumble Check Heritage Shirt in Rusk and Johnson Crew Knit in Rose, draped over the shoulders, in moorland grass.

Against the rust of the bracken, the shirting brought the brightest colour to the day, led by the Crazy Azure Patchwork Shirt, whose Indian cotton patchwork is hand cut and laid out by eye so that no two shirts quite match. Shirting has become one of our most popular categories, which I put down to the fit and to the time we spend finding the cloth, and the Heritage Shirt returns this season as the Tumble Check Heritage Shirt and the Heirloom Cotton Heritage Shirt in Rose, a Japanese cotton linen blend finished with a mineral wash we’re using for the first time.

We were back at the car by mid-afternoon, and the photographs say the rest better than I can. The full Autumn/Winter ’26 collection is on the website now, and if you’re passing the shop in Newcastle, you’re very welcome to come and try it on over a coffee.