Auralee and Tekla reunite for a second home and knitwear capsule for FW26

Auralee and Tekla are returning for a second collaborative capsule, this time built around the Scandinavian practice of friluftsliv: spending time outdoors, then finding comfort indoors. The Fall/Winter 2026 collection follows their inaugural 2024 partnership and launches October 28 through both brands' online stores and select retailers worldwide.

The capsule is framed around the concept of wintering, drawing on the contrast between a harsh Nordic landscape and warm domestic space. Auralee brings fabric development and understated layering; Tekla contributes its refined home textiles. The result is one coordinated assortment that moves between sleep, dressing and the living room.

The knitwear

Knitwear is at the collection's center, cut from a soft blend of 70% wool and 30% cashmere. Two earthy colorways, Forest Green and Soil Brown, echo the natural landscape the two labels keep returning to. Crewneck cardigans and boatneck sweaters anchor the knit range, paired with matching arm warmers and neck warmers in tonal, textural layers.

The silhouettes are relaxed and tactile, encouraging a kind of wrapping and layering that reads as Scandinavian comfort drawn through a Japanese lens. Auralee's signature material development gives familiar wardrobes a refined finish, and the blend itself is what carries the warmth: wool for weight, cashmere for softness against the skin.

Sleepwear, which carried over from the first collaboration, returns in brushed organic cotton flannel. The standout is a purple-and-orange pattern called Dawn Checks, inspired by the sky just before sunrise. It appears across long-sleeve shirts, relaxed pants and boxer shorts, adding a warmer and more expressive palette to an otherwise subdued range.

That checked flannel is the collection's most visually assertive element. Elsewhere the palette stays grounded, so the pre-dawn colors read as a deliberate accent rather than a departure. The pieces emphasize comfort through fabric choice, with the brushed cotton offering softness that pairs against the structured wool of the knitwear above it.

The home range

The collaboration extends well beyond clothing and into the home, which is where Tekla's strength carries the capsule. Pale green shearling slippers join striped lambswool blankets and deep brown percale bedding. Cotton socks in muted blue and grey round out the accessories, all in natural fibers and understated, earthy patterns.

The color language stays cohesive across apparel and interiors, so a Forest Green cardigan sits naturally beside deep brown bedding and a striped lambswool throw. That consistency is the collection's core idea: functional beauty and everyday comfort that hold from the bedroom through to the rest of the house.

The philosophy behind it is distinctly Nordic. Friluftsliv emphasizes time in nature, and the collection treats the home as the counterweight to that exposure: a place to warm up, rest and recover. The labels describe it as embracing the elements while finding equal pleasure in domestic comfort, a rhythm that is baked into every category.

Home is a category we cover closely, from robes to bed sheets and candles, and this capsule lands squarely in that territory. Here the brief is narrower: a coordinated winter system rather than a scattering of pieces, with each item designed to sit against the others in color, fiber and silhouette.

The two labels

Auralee, the Tokyo label founded by Ryota Iwai, has built its name on quietly luxurious fabrics and understated cuts rather than logos or hardware. Tekla, based in Copenhagen, has done the same at home, turning towels, bedding and robes into exacting minimal objects.

That first collaboration introduced sleepwear among other pieces, and this follow-up treats it as a returning category worth refreshing rather than repeating. The flannel is new, the check is new, and the step into slippers, blankets and bedding marks a fuller commitment to the home than the debut attempted.

What is public is the scope: knitwear, sleepwear, bedding and accessories in one drop, with the palette holding the whole thing together across two very different product families.

The wool-cashmere blend in the knitwear is worth a note on its own, since 70/30 is a deliberately warm and soft combination rather than a lightweight one. Paired with flannel and lambswool, the materials point firmly at cold weather, positioning this as a capsule to live in through the darker months rather than a single season's novelty.

The recurring tension in both brands' work is between restraint and comfort, and this collection resolves it by letting the fabrics speak. Nothing shouts; the check is the only loud note. For readers who buy for lasting value rather than flash, that is exactly the register Auralee and Tekla have each built their reputations on.

October 28 is the date to note, with the drop running through both official online stores. Select retailers worldwide will follow, though the list remains unannounced. Given the first collaboration's reception and the expanded home range, this second outing reads as a consolidation of a partnership rather than an experiment.

What comes next is a winter spent inside the collection: layered knitwear for the walk, flannel for the evening, shearling for the floor and percale for the bed. The two brands have built a whole room of it, and the only question left open is how quickly the wool-cashmere pieces sell through come launch day.