NOAH turns INXS nostalgia into premium graphic tees
NOAH distilled INXS into four tees, led by a $88 long-sleeve “Don’t Change” shirt and a backstory that comes straight from Brendon Babenzien’s own adolescence.
NOAH turned INXS into a four-tee capsule that feels edited, not overworked: a long-sleeve “Don’t Change” shirt at $88, plus “Never Tear Us Apart,” “What You Need,” and an album tee at $68 each. The collection sits inside Noah’s Spring/Summer 2026 assortment, where the band name and song titles land more like a tightly considered product story than souvenir merch. That restraint is exactly why it works in a crowded band-tee market full of loud graphics and thin ideas.
Babenzien’s fandom gives the drop its credibility. Noah says the collaboration has been “43 years in the making,” and Babenzien has said he first heard INXS around age 11 in 1982, when his brother’s friends were skating a halfpipe and a launch ramp with the band on in the background. He has also described INXS as the first band he felt a total connection with, a detail that matters here because the tees do not lean on spectacle. They lean on recognition: a song title, a clean front hit, a format that knows when to stop.
That discipline fits the brand Babenzien built with Estelle Bailey-Babenzien. Noah has long described its identity as a blend of skate, surf and music culture filtered through classic menswear, and this INXS capsule follows that blueprint instead of dressing up like generic concert merch. The shirts are plain enough to wear with wide chinos, washed denim or nylon shorts, but specific enough to signal taste. They read less like a tour table souvenir and more like the sort of graphic you would expect from a label with a real point of view.
The band choice also carries its own weight. INXS formed in Sydney in 1977 and first performed as the Farriss Brothers on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, which gives the capsule a direct line back to the group’s early Australian roots. “Never Tear Us Apart” came from the 1987 album Kick and arrived as a single in June 1988, anchoring the collaboration in one of the band’s most durable stretches. NOAH is not dressing up borrowed fame here. It is using Babenzien’s own archive of listening and skating to make a merch drop that feels like a fashion product first, and a fan artifact second.
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