February 2018 Issue #14 February 2018 Issue #14, 4GUYS | Page 12

SPRING 2018 MENSWEAR
BOSS
Boss continues to cast itself adrift from the
tight-tailoring template that anchors much of
its conventional corporate appeal, yet which
on the fickle and frothy seas of fashion is
overexposed to the point of anachronism.
So, for Spring ’18, chief brand officer Ingo
Wilts today shipped in a likely crew of nu-tai-
loring and nautically flecked luxury-work-
wear-wearing models to the lower shores of
Manhattan.
The key looks in this collection were, abso-
lutely, the suits: Double-breasted, notch-la-
peled, barely-padded jackets were cut to
angle jauntily downward from the back of
the skirt down to the front when worn open. The pants below were belted high,
generously pleated, and tapered toward the ankle. They featured a uniform flash
of stripe down the side of each leg (they’ll probably offer a plain option at retail).
In both navy textured cotton or neutral-toned paper-finished cotton, they looked
good.
Around these keystones tailoring pieces Wilts charted an entertaining enough
course through his vision of luxury urban casualwear. Crunchy leather macs and
soft cotton collarless trenches flowed full above more tapered pants gathered at
the waist by emergency whistle and bungee-hung hook-buckle belts. Polo shirts
and vests were impressively wrought in knitted twists of suede. White sneakers
flashed red at the sole with each step as models swung their leather or mesh
duffel bags stamped with H-B-N-Y. Bomber jackets and bucket hats featured the
semaphore flags of those locally branded initials, and some pieces were further
embellished with the latitude and longitude of the Boss store in Columbus Circle.
This ensured that any crew member who enjoyed his shore leave too enthusias-
tically could be returned to his outfitter of choice. Today’s show was the second
leg of Boss’s menswear runway reset under the command of its veteran company
captain: So far, all’s well.