Have you ever seen one of those videos on TikTok where a fashion influencer—one that hasn’t had a corporate job in years (or ever)—offers you office siren-inspired workwear advice? There’s probably a suit vest, sans shirt, and a stack of costume pearls swinging around the neck. There’s definitely an overstuffed laptop bag swinging from the arm, and there’s certainly a dangerously tall pair of beat up pumps. Check the comments and it’ll be flooded with people saying you could never dress like in a real office, but 7 For All Mankind’s Nicola Brognano is confident you should.
The key to indie sleaze’s dogged revival is less about the individual pieces and more an exercise in styling, of course with denim at the center. “She’s a party girl,” said Brognano. “She goes around the city, she goes around the world, she wants to wear denim, she wants to wear everything she likes, and put it together, mix it with a nice taste.” If he had to choose a specific reference, Kate Moss in the early 2000s takes the cake.
Beyond the ultra tight, ultra low rise denim and short shorts, the biggest revival was found in the menswear-inspired printed silk scarves. “The attitude is everything,” said Brognano. “You can wear denim and a tank top, but the attitude is the thing that defines you.” Paired with cropped trench coats and ruffled slip dresses, it was all a picture-perfectly disheveled, “rock ‘n’ roll” feeling. Yet, the most indie sleaze of them all was the model who kicked off her shoes.