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Resting is the ultimate luxury, just ask fashion professionals rushing amid the fashion week frenzy — or the finance bros on Wall Street.
After last year’s sci-fi office space filled with cubicles and a humanoid robot, Boss switched gears and mounted an idyllic, soothing garden inside the courtyard of the Palazzo del Senato venue, its flooring covered in grass and mirrors reflecting the — sadly gray — sky.
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Backstage after the show, creative director Marco Falcioni characterized the theme behind the spring 2025 collection — the brand is giving up on its recent see now, buy now format — as a further evolution of Boss’ formalwear DNA.
Titled “Out of Office,” the lineup had white-collar workers covered, whether they want to escape to the great outdoors, play tennis in the Hamptons or simply lie in bed.
“Obviously, it’s a metaphor, right? I mean, we’ve been indulging into fashioning the perfect suiting, the dress apt for business, and then [we asked ourselves], what happens? What happens after business? What happens after the commitment? You want to go out of office, you want to take your time,” Falcioni said.
It had the star-studded cast — including the athletes the German brand has been championing lately — donning a compelling reinvention of the formal suit. They included tennis players Matteo Berrettini and Taylor Fritz, German runner Alica Schmidt, swimmer Nicolò Martinenghi and German soccer player Loris Karius, as well as editors including George Cortina, Luke Day, and WWD’s style director Alex Badia.
Meanwhile, David Beckham, now officially a Boss employee after inking a multiyear design deal with the brand, was front row, sporting a formal navy blue suit.
As the show progressed, the collection increasingly broke free from the more formal, with tailoring and suiting references becoming more liquid, fading and morphing to welcome sportswear and casualwear elements.
Women donned pants with raised hems, often paired with draped tops or shawls turned into jackets, cinched at the waist by same-fabric belts. Wrap skirts and bomber jacket combos straddled between cool in- and out-of-office garb.
Men donned three-button wool suits with a velvety hand, coming with looser pants and unlined blazers fluidly caressing the body as they moved down the runway, paired with equally lightweight trenchcoats and soft leather dusters.
No tie in sight here. Little scarves peeked from underneath unbuttoned shirts and feminine handkerchief dresses and even the briefcase was collapsed, as if drained by an overwhelming workday.
How refreshing to see the office drones reclaim their free time, fleeing to a nature-filled getaway when the clock signals their 9-to-5 workday is finally over.
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Launch Gallery: Boss Spring 2025 Ready-To-Wear Collection
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