Kith Honors Walt ‘Clyde’ Frazier With Its 2026 Knicks Collection
Kith has put Walt “Clyde” Frazier front and centre of its 2026 collection with the New York Knicks, and the choice feels inevitable. Announced on Kith’s Instagram on November 9, the collection includes a capsule dedicated to Frazier, the two-time champion and Hall of Fame Knicks guard whose style off the court became as famous in New York as his play on it. Frazier does not just lend his name to the range — he stars in the campaign, in a black fedora and a shearling-collared “KNICKS” jacket, tipping a blue Knicks cap in a brown-and-orange No. 10 jersey, and leaning on a vintage car in a brown leather “YORK” jacket. It is a lookbook built around one man’s aura, and it works because Clyde has always dressed like the occasion mattered.
Frazier’s claim on this story is not nostalgia alone. He led the Knicks to their two NBA championships, in 1970 and 1973, and was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987. He has since spent decades calling Knicks games for MSG Network, beginning in 1987, so for generations of New York fans his voice is the sound of the team itself. Kith’s campaign calls him a two-time champion and Hall of Fame player and commentator, and that second act matters here: Frazier is not a figure from a highlight reel, he is still in the building, still shaping how the Knicks are talked about and seen.
The Frazier capsule is the sharpest part of the collection. Its centrepiece is a leather bomber designed by Kith and AVIREX, offered in three colourways, alongside a Mesh Leon Shirt, a reversible Deon Shirt and a Jersey Nelson Zip Hoodie, all carrying Frazier’s No. 10 lettering on the back. There is also a commemorative handcrafted Frazier bobblehead, a nod to the collectible side of Knicks fandom. The wider Kith for the New York Knicks 2026 collection runs through outerwear, shirting, fleece, suiting, jerseys and headwear, with the team’s familiar blue, orange and white reworked into Kith’s clean, heavyweight silhouettes. The No. 10 is the thread that ties it together: it is a number, a name and a piece of New York history at once.
What makes the campaign land is how faithfully it captures Clyde the stylist, not just Clyde the point guard. The photographs, shot by Kith and shared first on Kith’s Instagram, put him in wide-brim hats and flat caps, in leather bombers with championship patches, in a “FRAZIER 10” jersey with a Wilson basketball in hand, and behind the wheel of a vintage Rolls-Royce. The clothes are the point, but the posture is the story: Frazier has always understood that style is a form of authority, and in a city where the Knicks are a civic institution, dressing like Clyde is a way of claiming New York. That is the culture in this collection — basketball, fashion and the city, worn at the same time.
Kith’s partnership with the Knicks has become one of its defining collaborations, and this year’s edition leans into the team’s history rather than just its logo. Kith describes the Knicks, in its campaign wording, as the reigning NBA champions, and the collection is framed as a celebration of the team’s history and its lasting impact on New York City. That framing is doing real work: instead of treating a championship as a moment, it treats the Knicks as a lineage, from Frazier’s teams of the early 1970s to the present day. Putting Frazier at the front of that lineage is the most honest way to tell it.
The collection releases Friday, November 13, at Kith’s New York shops and at 11 a.m. EST on Kith.com and the Kith App. Fans in New York get a first look sooner: it will also be available Tuesday, November 10, at the annual Kith Night presented by Chase at Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks face the Milwaukee Bucks, at a pop-up inside the main entrance that opens at 5 p.m. and is accessible without a game ticket. Full campaign details are on Kith.com. For a collection that is, at its heart, about a New York original, that first chance to see it where Frazier made his name feels exactly right.
Photos: Kith, via Kith’s Instagram post @kith, “Walt ‘Clyde’ Frazier for Kith & the New York Knicks 2026” and Kith.com. Release details verified on Kith.com and in streetwear press coverage.