Nike x USMNT x V.A.A. Woven Staff Jacket

Product Description

The Nike x USMNT x VAA Woven Staff Jacket in White is the premium outerwear piece from the Virgil Abloh Archive's X2 World Cup collection for the United States Men's National Team, a smooth lightweight woven jacket with a hidden hood and modern silhouette that draws directly from the Freemantle jacket worn by Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes America's Cup crew in 1987, reimagined through Virgil Abloh's characteristic design codes with bold VAA, USMNT, and Nike branding, patches, and graphic elements applied across the clean white body. The staff jacket format references the team jacket tradition in American sportswear from the 1980s and 1990s, which Abloh absorbed as part of the visual firmament of suburban Chicago culture where Polo Ralph Lauren, Nautica, and other prep-nautical brands made their way from country club contexts into everyday American streetwear through the cultural mechanism that he spent his career studying and remixing. The V.A.A. collection essay published on virgilabloh.com titled American Optimists documents the direct lineage from those 1987 sailing team jackets to this Staff Jacket, describing how the moment of hybridity where nautical signifiers bled into streetwear animated so much of Abloh's thinking, making this jacket one of the most conceptually grounded and most historically specific pieces in the entire seven-collaborator Nike X2 World Cup program. At $185 retail the Staff Jacket is the highest-priced apparel item in the VAA USMNT collection.

Released June 15, 2026 at $185 retail via Virgil Abloh Archive, U.S. Soccer Federation channels, Dover Street Market, and SNKRS globally.

The Nike x USMNT x VAA Woven Staff Jacket White was released on June 15, 2026 with a retail price of $185.