When the Skate Brand Serves Surprisingly Sophisticated Statement Outerwear
Streetwear brands often live or die by their graphics. This is a genre of clothing where T-shirts are solely a canvas for printing and logos are made to be infused onto everything.
Palace can create provocative graphic tees (see last year’s “not today satan” T-shirt) and logoed-up staples as well as the rest of them. However, it also has a knack for taking things to the next level.
Palace’s all-over printed outerwear, in recent years, has been nothing short of wild. In fact, it borders on the psychedelic. And yet, it's also surprisingly sophisticated, odd especially considering Palace's tendency towards the knowingly juvenile.
The London-based skateboard brand's newest collection thus appropriately opted to premiere its Fall 2025 collection with yet another objectively outrageous jacket.
Printed all over Palace’s fluffy new fleece are images of frogs.
Huge frogs with multi-colored bodies, as though photographed with an infrared camera. If the black-colored jacket isn’t absurd enough, its electric blue counterpart is downright trip-inducing.
The froggy jacket is by far the most outlandish of Palace’s Fall 2025 outerwear (closely followed by a mustard yellow Avirex leather jacket in collaboration with the manga and anime series Doraemon), but it slots in nicely amongst Palace’s other recent all-over printed oddities.
Last season, there was the brand’s collaboration with Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, complete with surrealist collages all over jackets (and practically every other kind of wearable).
Turn the clock back a little further to a shockingly smart Spring 2025 windbreaker with its vivid amalgamation of flowers or its trippy Vivienne Westwood link-up, where an image of Westwood’s Spring/Summer 1992 “Salon” covered an entire techy GORE-TEX jacket.
It’s all very showy stuff, and it's all very Palace. There's always been a maximalist, absurdist streak running through the British streetwear label, and it's being translated into gloriously OTT outerwear.
Highsnobiety has affiliate marketing partnerships, which means we may receive a commission from your purchase. Want to shop the products our editors actually love? Visit the HS Style Guide for recs on all things fashion, footwear, and beauty.
