SOREL And Aries Return With A More Rugged Take On City Dressing
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The boundary between performance and fashion continues to narrow, and SOREL and Aries are leaning further into the intersection. Following the sold-out success of their 2025 Callsign Horizon™ sneaker, the two brands are returning with a second limited-edition footwear collaboration: the SOREL × Aries Daystorm™ Chukka Boot.
Launching October 8, the new silhouette draws from the DNA of SOREL’s iconic Caribou™ boot, translating its rugged construction into a more streamlined proposition for everyday city dressing. Through Aries’ distinct lens, the Daystorm™ becomes less about choosing between the urban and the outdoors and more about inhabiting both.
The unisex chukka is constructed with a full-grain leather upper, hair-on leather detailing across the vamp and tongue, and a genuine shearling lining that extends visibly around the ankle. A Vibram® sole reinforces SOREL’s performance credentials, while the combination of leather, pony hair and shearling introduces the tactile contrast associated with Aries’ high-low approach to design.
Available in Black, Black and Tobacco, and Velvet Tan, the $275 boot carries a sense of rugged refinement that feels particularly suited to the increasingly fluid way consumers approach their wardrobes. The Daystorm™ is built to withstand the elements, but its materiality and proportions position it just as comfortably within a contemporary fashion context.
That duality extends into the campaign. SOREL and Aries enlisted multimedia artist and photographer Joe Cruz to create a visual world where physical sets and digital techniques converge, constructing an otherworldly outdoor landscape that mirrors the collection’s own tension between the tangible and imagined.
British grime MC, producer and DJ D Double E fronts the campaign, bringing a cultural credibility and irreverent energy that complements the boot’s intentionally stylized character. His presence further pushes the collaboration beyond a conventional fashion-meets-function exercise, placing the Daystorm™ within a broader conversation around music, street culture and contemporary style.
For SOREL, the partnership demonstrates how its functional heritage can remain relevant when placed in the hands of a brand with a distinctly experimental vocabulary. For Aries, it offers another opportunity to reinterpret an established outdoor icon through the codes of London street culture and luxury-minded material play.
The result is a footwear collaboration that does not ask consumers to pick between utility and expression. Instead, the Daystorm™ treats durability, comfort and cultural relevance as complementary ideas—an increasingly familiar formula for a generation dressing across contexts rather than categories.
The SOREL × Aries Daystorm™ Chukka Boot will be available online beginning October 8, 2026, for $275.
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SOREL and Aries reunite for a second limited-edition collaboration, transforming the brand’s weather-ready heritage into a shearling-lined chukka boot designed for the intersection of city life and the outdoors.