I’ve been keeping an eye on celebrity puffer jackets for a while now, and this year they’ve quietly taken over every corner of celebrity style. Rappers are building entire album rollouts around one specific colorway. TV writers are using them to say something about a character without a single line of dialogue. Even an Olympic gold medalist ended up making global headlines on the podium. Here are 16 celebrity puffer jackets from across music, TV, film, and sport that actually mattered this year, and why each one worked.
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Drake ICEMAN Puffer Jacket
Drake filming his ICEMAN music video in Toronto was always going to be an outfit moment, and the baby blue quilted puffer with the fur-trimmed hood delivered exactly that. Paired on set with a custom Chrome Hearts trapper hat in white, the whole look leaned hard into the icy, frozen visual world he built around the album.
The fur hood is the piece doing the most work here. It softens what would otherwise be a pretty severe, structural jacket and gives it that slightly theatrical edge that fits a music video shoot better than everyday streetwear would.
What’s interesting is how the color choice ties directly into the album concept. Blue and white, ice and frost, the whole ICEMAN era was built around a temperature. The jacket isn’t just outerwear in this context, it’s part of the branding.
Andy Cohen Puffer Jacket
Andy Cohen hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live from Times Square has become one of those TV traditions people watch as much for the outfits as the countdown. This year’s high-gloss electric blue puffer, confirmed as Mackage’s Kent-Glo in a pastel Provincial Blue, sent fashion sleuths into a full Reddit investigation within minutes of air time.
Glossy shell, removable hood left off for the night, contrasting rib knit cuffs, insulated pockets throughout. He paired it with a simple gray turtleneck, which was smart, because a jacket with this much shine doesn’t need help standing out.
Live television doesn’t usually produce viral fashion moments this fast. But a rainy Times Square, bright stage lighting, and a “wet-look” finish on a blue puffer turned out to be the exact combination people couldn’t stop talking about. Low-key one of the most talked-about outfits of the entire broadcast.
Christiani Pitts Flower Puffer Jacket
Morning show fashion rarely gets the credit it deserves, but Christiani Pitts brought something genuinely fun to a Today Show appearance with a floral-print puffer that stood out immediately against the usual studio backdrop.
Quilted construction with an all-over floral pattern, structured collar, front zip closure. Not the muted, safe colors you’d expect from early morning television. Bold, almost springtime energy packed into a winter-weight jacket.
Floral puffers are a small but growing trend, and pieces like this show why. It takes a format usually associated with function over fashion and makes it feel considered. Pretty without losing the warmth a puffer is actually supposed to deliver.
Harrison Ford Puffer Jacket
Harrison Ford’s Paul Rhoades has quietly become one of the best-dressed characters on television, and Shrinking’s third season keeps that going with an understated navy puffer that fits the character’s grounded, no-nonsense energy perfectly.
Simple construction, minimal branding, a fit that reads more “comfortable therapist” than “trying too hard.” Which is exactly the point.
There’s something refreshing about a show letting an older character wear genuinely practical, well-made outerwear instead of dressing him down for comedic effect. Paul’s wardrobe across the series has leaned into that same quiet confidence, and the puffer fits right into it.
Roman Griffin Davis Puffer Jacket
Roman Griffin Davis returns for the disaster-survival sequel Greenland 2: Migration, and his character’s cold-weather wardrobe reflects exactly the kind of harsh, unpredictable climate the film’s plot depends on.
Heavy-duty construction, functional pockets, a fit built for movement rather than styling. This is survival gear first and fashion second, which is appropriate given what the character is dealing with on screen.
Disaster films tend to get outerwear right in ways red carpets don’t, because the jacket actually has to do something. This one looks like it could handle real weather, and that authenticity is part of what makes it work as costume design.
Doja Cat Pink Puffer Jacket
Doja Cat rarely does anything the expected way, and a pastel pink puffer spotted on New York City streets fits right into her ongoing pattern of taking a basic wardrobe staple and making it feel experimental.
High-gloss finish, oversized silhouette, quilted panels running the full length of the body. The kind of piece that photographs as loud even in a quick street style shot.
Pink isn’t a color most artists reach for in outerwear, but she’s built a whole aesthetic around leaning into color choices other people avoid. This one reads as playful without losing the volume and presence that makes her street style so recognizable.
Dylan Dreyer Red Puffer Jacket
Dylan Dreyer’s weather segments on Today have become a small, ongoing fashion moment in their own right, and this cherry red puffer is a good example of why. Bright, practical, built for standing outside on frigid mornings while still reading well on camera.
Structured collar, front zip, clean lines without excess detailing.
Weather anchors need outerwear that photographs clearly against studio lighting and outdoor backdrops both. Red does that job better than most colors, and it’s become something of a signature choice for her winter segments.
Krista Kosonen Green Puffer Jacket
Krista Kosonen’s character in the Nordic thriller Synden wears a deep forest green puffer through much of the show’s first season, and it fits the cold, moody Scandinavian setting the story leans on throughout.
Matte finish, minimal hardware, a silhouette built for practicality over statement-making.
Green is a color that shows up more in European crime dramas than American ones, and it works here because it blends into the landscape rather than standing apart from it. Quiet, functional, exactly what a character navigating harsh terrain would actually wear.
Greymon Orange Puffer Jacket
Greymon-themed outerwear leans hard into the character’s signature orange and gives longtime Digimon fans a genuinely wearable way to reference the franchise without looking like straight cosplay.
Bold orange base, graphic detailing referencing Greymon’s design, oversized puffer construction for maximum warmth.
Anime-inspired streetwear has been having a real moment, and pieces built around a character this recognizable tend to age better than generic franchise merch. It reads as a color statement first, reference second, which is the right order for something you’ll actually want to wear outside a convention.
Zendaya Orange Puffer Jacket
Zendaya‘s press tour wardrobe for The Drama has been quietly excellent all season, and the burnt orange puffer with the high collar and snap-button front is one of the more casual entries in what’s otherwise been a pretty polished rotation.
High collar, hidden zip under snap buttons, elastic cuffs, structured front pockets.
Press tour fashion usually swings between full red carpet and airport-casual, and this jacket sits in the middle. Elevated enough to photograph well, relaxed enough that it doesn’t feel like a costume. That balance is harder to pull off than it looks.
Keke Palmer Puffer Jacket
Keke Palmer‘s character in the suburban comedy The Burbs gets a black puffer that plays against type a little, since most of her wardrobe in the show leans bright and expressive. The contrast actually works in the character’s favor.
Clean black finish, minimal detailing, a relaxed fit that reads as effortless rather than plain.
Sometimes a costume choice is about giving a character a moment of restraint. This jacket does that. It’s a quieter piece in an otherwise colorful wardrobe, and that contrast tells you something about where the character is in the story without a single line of dialogue.
Lyla Novak Relaxed Fit Puffer Jacket
Lyla Novak’s relaxed fit puffer in Chicago Fire’s fourteenth season fits the show’s ongoing commitment to dressing its characters like people who actually work outside in Chicago winters, because that’s genuinely what the job requires.
Navy tone, roomy cut built for layering, functional zip closure.
Procedural dramas set in real, cold cities tend to get outerwear more accurate than most genres, since the wardrobe has to survive actual location shoots. This piece looks like something a real first responder would grab before a shift, which is exactly the point.
Greg Russo Puffer Jacket
Greg Russo’s puffer in the indie drama Rooster leans utilitarian, matching a character built around blue-collar grit rather than anything approaching red carpet polish.
Olive-toned shell, simple front zip, no unnecessary branding or graphics.
Costume design for grounded, character-driven films tends to prioritize believability over statement pieces, and this jacket does exactly that job. It disappears into the character rather than drawing attention to itself, which is honestly the harder trick to pull off in wardrobe design.
Jutta Leerdam Puffer Jacket
Jutta Leerdam‘s Team Netherlands podium jacket became one of the most photographed pieces of the entire Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics after she set an Olympic record winning gold in the women’s 1000m speed skating event, following it up with silver in the 500m.
Vivid Dutch orange, Fila branding on the chest, TeamNL crest, heavy quilted construction built for genuinely sub-zero alpine conditions.
Orange has been the color of Dutch sporting identity for decades, and seeing it on a gold medalist at the top of the podium gives it a different kind of weight than fashion usually carries. This wasn’t styled for cameras first. It was built to perform, and it happened to look incredible doing it.
Tom Hiddleston Puffer Jacket
Tom Hiddleston back as Jonathan Pine for The Night Manager’s second season means a wardrobe built around cold, tense, high-stakes locations, and the puffer spotted during filming fits that tone completely.
Understated dark tone, minimal hardware, a silhouette built to move under a coat rather than replace one entirely.
Spy thrillers tend to dress their leads in pieces that work as functional gear first and fashion second, and this jacket does exactly that. Nothing about it says “look at me,” which, for a character built around blending into dangerous rooms, is precisely correct.
Thalia Young Blue Grid Puffer Jacket
Twenty-five seasons in, Law & Order still finds small ways to update its wardrobe language, and Thalia Young’s blue grid-patterned puffer is one of the more contemporary pieces the franchise has put on screen recently.
Grid check pattern across a navy base, structured collar, straightforward zip closure.
Procedurals usually keep outerwear neutral so it doesn’t date the episode, but a subtle pattern like this ages better than people expect. It reads as current without screaming trend piece, which is a difficult needle to thread for a show built to run in syndication for years.
Why Celebrity Puffer Jackets Keep Winning in 2026
Line all sixteen up and the pattern is obvious. Puffers stopped being the boring, function-only piece in everyone’s closet a while ago. Musicians build entire album eras around them. Olympic athletes turn them into symbols of national pride on a podium. TV writers use them to say something about a character without a single word of dialogue. Even morning show anchors have figured out that a bold color reads better on camera than another gray parka.
What ties these celebrity puffer jackets together isn’t the silhouette, since that barely changes from one to the next. It’s the context. The same basic quilted shape shows up in a music video, on an Olympic podium, and in a police procedural, and somehow tells a completely different story every time depending on who’s wearing it and why.
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