Concorde Paris SS27: Fashion for Anyone Waiting at Arrivals

Alexandre Belzacq's second Concorde Paris chapter turns airports, stations and goodbyes into knotted, modular clothes. Think hull lines, rope and a great deal of blue.

Alexandre Belzacq once wanted to be a pilot, and Concorde Paris SS27 is what happens when that ambition takes a detour through fashion. The collection is called “Quand reviendras-tu?”, or “When Will You Return?”, and it is about the moment someone leaves and the moment, hopefully, they come back.

Belzacq presented it in Paris on October 3, 2026. It is the second chapter in the development of the Parisian label, and it reads best as a trip with a few stops: the departure hall, the platform, the deck, the reunion. Anticipation, uncertainty and human connection are the feelings he set out to translate, and he did it through sculptural silhouettes and adaptable garments.

The man who missed the cockpit

Belzacq grew up in a family connected to the aviation industry and studied engineering, hoping to become a pilot. Fashion came later, once his creative interests pulled him that way. There he began exploring the relationship between clothing, transportation and personal experience. He founded Concorde Paris around his fascination with travel and movement, and he still looks at clothes the way an engineer looks at a structure.

For this season he turned his attention to the people who pass through airports, railway stations and other spaces of transit. He watches the brief encounters between strangers, the pain of leaving someone behind and the anticipation of seeing them again. “At first, I was simply living my own stories in these places,” Belzacq explains. “Then I began observing the people around me, watching them wait, run, meet again or say goodbye.”

That list of verbs is a decent guide to the clothes. Waiting, running, meeting, parting: the collection tries to put each of them into a garment, and to let clothing carry the feelings that come with distance and attachment.

Knots, rope and a hull or two

The silhouettes are exaggerated, the proportions unusual, the construction modular. Knots recur throughout, standing in for the ties between people. Rope details bring in a maritime note, so the journey is not only by air and rail but by sea too.

The clever part is that the clothes can be rearranged. Adjustable garments let the wearer change shape by tying, separating and reconnecting individual components. A piece can be one thing at the gate and another on arrival. It is a fitting idea for a collection about attachment: the parts come apart, and then they come back together.

Shirts, trousers and jackets are the familiar items here, but their proportions turn architectural. Fluid shapes sit alongside them and add movement. Belzacq draws on the lines of boat hulls, ship masts, aircraft wings, sails and railway carriages, and adapts them into sculptural designs. His engineering training shows in how he treats these technical structures, and what they might do inside fashion, as raw material for cut and volume.

The palette is disciplined: deep blue, grey, black and white. With colour kept this quiet, the eye goes to construction, texture and form, which is where the collection wants it.

Crochet, deadstock and a vest you know

Materials vary more than the colours do. Denim and crochet sit beside luxury deadstock fabrics, which reflects the label’s interest in using existing materials. The handmade crochet elements come from Martha Torbey, who adds texture and intricate detailing.

There is also a collaboration with French clothing brand Tricots Marcel. Its familiar undershirts and tank tops are folded into the seasonal offering, the kind of basics most wardrobes already hold. Selected pieces carry rope embroidery, which ties the partnership back to the travel and maritime references running through the rest of the collection.

The lookbook was photographed by Sarah Laské.

Belzacq continues to develop Concorde Paris around movement, personal memories and human relationships. This season, the question in the title hangs over all of it. Every departure carries the hope of a return, and these clothes are built to be knotted, untied and knotted again.

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