Alpha Industries x Cecilie Bahnsen brings feelings to the flight jacket

Femme Fatale just got a whole new meaning…

Consider this your official notice: you don’t need military training to wear a bomber anymore. Alpha Industries, the OG supplier of the iconic faux flight jackets, just enlisted Danish womenswear designer Cecilie Bahnsen to their squadron. Alpha Industries x Cecilie Bahnsen takes Alpha’s iconic MA-1 and N-2B bomber jackets and sends them to Bahnsen’s world of soft-focus romantic daydreams. Think utilitarian silhouettes made for pilots and paratroopers, now reimagined for those of us tenderhearted souls, who cry at the movies, romanticise chaos, and want pockets that actually work.

Bahnsen keeps Alpha’s performance-driven DNA intact; this is still real-deal outerwear, but layered wth laser-cut florals, embroidered patches, and ever-blooming dimensional textures. The MA-1 is deployed in black this time around, tightly cropped, puffed, and petal-studded like a flower mid-bloom. Meanwhile, the N-2B returns in navy blue and green colourways softened with blush pink detailing. Embroidered patches and a new sculptural hood allow you to adjust your look for flight, fight, or (un)freeze in seconds.

Shot in an indoor skydiving tunnel (because of course), the campaign quite literally lets femininity take flight as models are left to hover mid-air, flowers fluttering, bombers whirring. Call it a ceasefire between toughness and tenderness, and a very cute one at that.