The Danish designer takes a pair of scissors to the historic military brand’s archive for a three-piece collection dropping in February.
Summary
- The Collaboration: Cecilie Bahnsen and Alpha Industries officially launch their first joint collection, reimagining the iconic MA-1 and N-2B bomber jackets through a poetic, feminine lens.
- The Inspiration: The design team pulled from Garden Bulbs in Color, a vintage 1941 manual, to create laser-cut motifs and “living collages” that spill over the traditional borders of the garments.
- The Product: The three-piece lineup features a cropped black MA-1 and two N-2B jackets in tonal navy and green with soft pink detailing, all available at authorized global retailers starting February 5.
Copenhagen’s queen of pouf just picked a fight with standard-issue military gear. Cecilie Bahnsen took the rigid bones of Alpha Industries and covered them in her signature clouds of texture. This partnership twists the classic bomber jacket into something unrecognizable yet entirely wearable.
The wearable anchor of this three-part series is the cropped black MA-1. It ditches the flat nylon look for laser-cut fabric layers that bloom outward like 3D petals.
Those petals trace back to a specific piece of literature found on the mood board. Garden Bulbs in Color, a vintage guide from 1941, lent its hand-tinted drawings to the chaotic design logic.
The drawings morphed into embroidered patches and laser-cut shapes that spill over the seams to form what the duo calls “living collages”. These messy, organic borders show up heavily on the N-2B variations.
The N-2B variations come in tonal navy and green interrupted by soft pink accents. A clever zipper splits the hood to change the silhouette and expose the signature onion quilting hiding inside.
That quilting and the rest of the floral-heavy lineup hit authorized retailers on February 5.
