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Knitwear like Aimé Leon Dore

12 brands that actually make knitwear and sit close to Aimé Leon Dore on style and price — each with what it does differently.

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Palm Angels knitwear

Palm Angels

$$$$Milan

Both brands occupy the high-end streetwear niche and share similar colorful palettes and materials. Palm Angels also features a unique blend of skate culture and high-end fashion.

3 knitwear tracked · from $139

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Stüssy knitwear

Stüssy

$$Laguna Beach

Stüssy and Aimé Leon Dore both have a foundational place in streetwear culture, using relaxed silhouettes and colorful designs.

107 knitwear tracked · from $36

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Carhartt WIP knitwear

Carhartt WIP

$$Weil am Rhein

Carhartt WIP supplies the workwear side of Aime Leon Dore's Americana equation, reworking Detroit jackets and duck canvas chore coats for well under ALD's $200-plus fleece pricing.

28 knitwear tracked · from $57

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Maison Kitsuné knitwear

Maison Kitsuné

$$$Paris

Maison Kitsune pioneered the lifestyle template Teddy Santis later built in Queens: fox-logo wardrobe staples plus a record label and its own cafes, priced in the same bracket.

16 knitwear tracked · from $105

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A.P.C. knitwear

A.P.C.

$$$Paris

Jean Touitou's A.P.C. covers the quiet, unlogoed half of the Aime Leon Dore wardrobe, offering raw selvedge denim and long-wearing basics instead of collegiate crests.

32 knitwear tracked · from $117

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Represent knitwear

Represent

$$$Manchester

Represent matches Aime Leon Dore's heavyweight jersey and founder-owned independence from Manchester, though its aesthetic leans distressed British luxury streetwear rather than 1990s New York prep.

3 knitwear tracked · from $140

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Beams Plus knitwear

Beams Plus

$$$Tokyo

Beams Plus works the same American Ivy and military sources Santis draws on, filtered through Tokyo tailoring and Japanese fabrics at comparably premium prices.

114 knitwear tracked · from $58

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Samsoe Samsoe knitwear

Samsoe Samsoe

$$$Copenhagen

Copenhagen's Samsoe Samsoe offers the knitwear, denim and soft tailoring core without the collegiate graphics, undercutting Aime Leon Dore's $200-plus sweatshirts.

18 knitwear tracked

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Acne Studios knitwear

Acne Studios

$$$$Stockholm

Acne Studios shares the oversized proportions and muted palette but arrives from Stockholm fashion rather than streetwear, pricing its mohair knits above ALD's fleece.

36 knitwear tracked · from $78

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Auralee knitwear

Auralee

$$$$Paris

Ryota Iwai launched Auralee in 2015, a year after Aime Leon Dore, building similarly relaxed silhouettes from custom-milled Japanese textiles at noticeably higher prices.

60 knitwear tracked · from $110

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Corridor knitwear

Corridor

$$$New York City

Corridor adds handcraft-led New York shirting and knits in the same relaxed, quality-first register.

17 knitwear tracked · from $185

Shop Corridor

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