The Barbour Paul Smith collaboration is back for a third time, and this round draws its inspiration from the traditions and eccentricities of the Scottish Highland Games, producing a 38-piece Autumn/Winter 2026 collection that lands in stores on 4 September 2026.
Both labels have form when it comes to honouring British heritage while refusing to leave it untouched, and that tension is exactly what makes this collection worth paying attention to. The range spans men’s and women’s and covers outerwear, shirting, knits, footwear and accessories, each piece pulling from Barbour’s Classic Tartan and Paul Smith’s better-known electric stripes and selective neon palette.
What the Barbour Paul Smith Collaboration Actually Brings to the Field
The jackets are where the real work is done. Paul Smith takes Barbour’s iconic Beaufort and dresses it in inky, plush corduroy and a beefy windowpane wool sourced from British mill Barbour-partnered Abraham Moon. The Transport Jacket, long a favourite on the menswear circuit, gets a fresh coat of wax in two ways: a rusty red with a subtle windowpane check, and a hardy charcoal wool version that would hold its own on a Scottish hillside or a blustery ferry crossing.
The details are where the personality lives. Each jacket carries a lining that offers a Smithian reinterpretation of Barbour’s Classic Tartan, and the throat latch comes in a distinctive pink-magenta that is a long way from anything you would find in a shooting lodge. According to The Impression, the collection also features Friesian cows printed on the lining of select pieces, a quietly absurdist touch that sits comfortably alongside the Highland Games brief.
Beyond the outerwear, tartan button-up shirts and colourblock jumpers fill out the layering options, and the accessories range from a tartan cap at $65 to navy tall wellingtons at $255, the kind of kit that suggests someone actually thought about what you might wear between the hill and the pub.
Heritage Outerwear That Earns Its Place in the Field
Barbour’s Beaufort and Gamefair jackets are not fashion items in the fleeting sense. They are working garments that have accumulated decades of credibility on driven shoots, coastal walks and everything in between. The risk with a collaboration like this is that the novelty overwhelms the function, leaving you with something that photographs well but performs poorly when the weather closes in.
That does not appear to be the concern here. The Barbour Paul Smith collaboration retains the waxed cotton construction and the structural integrity of the originals while layering on the kind of colour and pattern work that makes these pieces genuinely distinguishable from the standard catalogue. The windowpane wool Beaufort at $995, for instance, draws on Abraham Moon’s cloth, a British mill with a long track record in hardwearing suiting and outerwear fabrics, meaning the material has credibility beyond its appearance.
The pink-magenta throat latch and the Friesian cow linings are details you will not see until you are already inside the jacket, which is exactly how good lining design should work: a private reward rather than a public performance.
The full collection, including the Gamefair Zip Cardigan at $330, the Colourblock Tyne Sweater at $290, and smaller pieces such as the Wax Thornproof Dressing at $25, is available through Paul Smith and Barbour directly, as well as selected retail partners, from 4 September 2026. For anyone who has spent time looking for outerwear that moves between the hill and the high street without announcing itself in either direction, this third outing between two resolutely British labels makes a strong case for putting your name down early.
