Boss FALL 2023 READY-TO-WEAR

Marco Falcioni came up with the idea for his latest Boss collection on the way back home from the spring ’23 show in Miami, courtesy of in-flight entertainment. While kicking back en route, he watched Being John Malkovich and became entranced by the highly stylized and oppressively macabre cinematographic vision of office life in Spike Jonze’s cusp-of-the-millennium classic. And then the thought hit him: “Oh, God: Everybody in this film could have been dressed by Boss. Because that was a moment where Boss was really intended as an office uniform.”

Once Falcioni touched down in Europe, his imagination took off as he began to shape the collection we saw (very, very, very) late this evening. It was what he called “corpcore,” an almost anthropological and at times surreal excavation of the tradition of “executive dress” at a social moment where Lazy Girl Jobs are trending and Working Girl feels like a historical document. Remembering the styling of the first-ever Hugo Boss womenswear show, spring 2001 in Milan, with models including Gisele Bündchen styled with paper clips in their chignons, gave him even more material to play with.