New York Fashion Week: Men’s: The Casting at BOSS

For A/W18, Boss’s chief brand officer Ingo Wilts combined baseball influences with the brand’s heritage, which culminated, as Wilts economically put it, in ‘sports tailoring’.

“There are, especially, baseball influences… It’s such a New York thing, baseball,” he said in an interview with Vogue Runway. This is combined with our heritage, and then a layer of protective surfaces, like rainwear, is also present.”

Styled by Another Man’s Fashion Director, Ellie Grace Cumming, this translated to a smart wardrobe with a sporty twist: suit trousers fitted with a drawstring or else tapered; luxuriant varsity jackets and shirts cut like baseball jerseys, as well as garments designed for the wet and the cold, such as raincoats and beanie hats.

This was all rendered in a colour palette that felt suitably wintery – blacks, whites, greys and navys, along with a cool brown and one splash of bright yellow – and modelled by a diverse group of boys cast by Angus Munro, who are captured here in an exclusive casting story.

Sportswear – or athleisure, as it is sometimes known – has had an almost incalculable influence on the way men dress today and this collection seemed sensitive to that, without compromising its own distinct approach to fashion.