Two stars. The team that wears the tricolore today already carries every continent in its lineup — kids whose grandmothers spoke Wolof, Bambara, Arabic, Akan, Igbo, Kongo. The squad isn't an exception to French identity. It is French identity, in the form modern France actually takes.
The Hexagone Protocol is the textile that names them. Six-sided geography in the cut. Tricolore current in the diamonds. And woven across the white panel — nineteen glyphs from nineteen sources: Akan and Bamileke motifs for the Cameroonian root, Arabic calligraphic geometry for the North African thread, Wolof and Serer pattern language for the Senegalese line, Bambara for Mali, Fon and Ewe for Guinea and Togo, Igbo and Yoruba for Nigeria, Kongo cosmograms for Central Africa, the diamond-grid of the Antilles for the Caribbean diaspora. Nineteen lineages, one substrate field. None erased.
The AeroTank™ takes that grammar and runs it into summer weight. Sleeveless cut, cropped at the bicep for full shoulder mobility. Bleu de France #002395 chassis. Four-way stretch engineered for heat — moisture-wicking, fast-drying, UPF50+ for the days the sun beats the schedule. Wear it under the jersey on match day. Wear it alone in Marseille in August. The hex holds. The substrate carries. The lineage moves.
Ancestral form. Future motion.
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- Bleu de France #002395 chassis
- 19-glyph multi-origin substrate field — every ethnic lineage in the modern squad, low-opacity weave
- Tricolore diamond geometry
- AeroTank™ sleeveless silhouette — cropped at bicep for shoulder mobility
- Tactical telemetry hem flag (FLAG.007 // WC26 · FRA · AT) embedded at lower hem
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Introducing NsuKinetix™ fabric technology — Engineered recycled polyester, four-way stretch, moisture-wicking, UPF50+.
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Nsu is Akan (Twi) for water; Kinetix is SunBorn's own word for motion. Water doesn't fight the course, it becomes it — that same principle, engineered into every fiber.
- OEKO-TEX 100 certified; GRS/RCS recycled content certified
- Regular unisex fit
- Made in Philadelphia
— Hexagone Protocol // SB-26.FRA
