FC Nantes built their visual identity around a distinctive vertical stripe, so an away kit is always an opportunity to shift the grammar. For 2023/24, Macron opts for horizontal green and white stripes — keeping the club's colours in play while departing from the familiar silhouette. It's a considered alternative: not a reinvention, but a reframing. For collectors, that tension between reference and divergence is often what makes an away shirt worth tracking down.