Aimé Leon Dore and New Balance Release SONNY New York FW26, 16 Pieces From $50

Aimé Leon Dore has put out the Fall/Winter 2026 edition of SONNY New York, its basketball line with New Balance. The brand introduced it in its journal on Thursday, November 5, as a capsule of performance sportswear made for on and off the court, and the collection page on aimeleondore.com went up the same day. It lists 16 pieces across 27 colourway listings, from a $50 packable tote to a $300 full-zip performance hoodie, and on Sunday afternoon every listing still had at least one size available.

The campaign is set on the Lower East Side. It follows Aaron Ellis, Skye Ragoo and Josh Rivera, three of the top high-school players in New York City, the brand says, through a preseason workout at the Masaryk Community Gym on the Lower East Side.

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What's in it

The top of the range is technical. The $300 black full-zip performance hoodie and its $250 matching sweatpant are cut from a cotton-blend performance fabric with reflective piping, 3M reflective SONNY NY and New Balance logos, and on the hoodie's sleeve a Masaryk Gym logo. Below them sit the practice pieces: a $130 long-sleeve practice tee in white or black, $175 performance shorts and $120 mesh gym shorts in green or blue, and a $95 reversible mesh jersey in green and cream or white and blue, with the Masaryk Gym logo printed on the back.

Then the team-store layer: a $190 logo hoodie and $190 logo sweatpant in black or grey, a $180 crewneck in 530 GSM loopback cotton terry with a puff-printed logo, an $85 IFTB tee and an $80 warm-up tank, both made in the USA, plus a $75 logo cap, a $70 IFTB strapback and a $90 beanie. The $160 duffle has a zip compartment at the bottom for shoes, but there's no shoe on the collection page. ALD's Fall/Winter 2023 SONNY capsule, by contrast, featured updated colourways of the P550 and 650R alongside the clothes.

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Where SONNY comes from

SONNY isn't new. ALD's journal has SONNY New York 3x3 posts from May 2017 (SONNY New York 3x3 - Spring 2017) and May 2018 (SONNY New York Spring 3x3), an ALD / NB All-City SONNY League in April 2022, and SONNY New York posts for Fall/Winter 2022, Spring/Summer 2023, Fall/Winter 2023 and Fall/Winter 2024. That 2024 edition was built around what the brand called the first international ALD / New Balance SONNY tournament, in Paris, with three players from the Masaryk gym and its SONNY Youth Club after-school program along for the trip.

Our read

Most of what ALD and New Balance put out together gets talked about as shoes. SONNY is the other half of the partnership, and it carries more weight than a logo capsule because there's a real gym and a youth program behind it, and the campaign features top New York high-school players working out in that gym rather than models. The pricing splits the line in two: the pieces under $100 (the tote, the caps and beanie, the tank, the IFTB tee and the jersey) are the way in, the reflective $300 hoodie and $250 sweatpant are the statement. What ALD hasn't said is whether the capsule is going to its stores as well as online, or whether a SONNY tournament follows this season, as one did in 2024.