What if Pina Bausch and industrial designer Dieter Rams had a conversation?

He, the master of minimalism, restraint and clarity; she, the revolutionary choreographer who was all about the portraiture of raw emotions in movement.

The fictional sit-down talk between the two German legends informed the Boss spring 2026 collection — a study in contradictions, or paradoxes, as the show’s title suggested.

In a backstage scrum post-show, Marco Falcioni said that the team has been exploring the archives, “not from a garment point of view, but from the value point of view. All these associations with sport, but art were quite paradoxical to find. And then we went down deeper, and we found the same contrast in German culture.”

So tailoring was reconfigured via layering, its lived-in quality conv

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