Fashion trends 2022: the return of indie sleaze

Grunge 90s, 80s opulence and a pinch of retro style: this is the recipe of the fashion trend “indie sleaze“, a specific moment of the 2000s that seems to have every intention of returning today Mandy Lee, trend analyst who in a TikTok video told the origins of this trend and expected its return in the next two years. A return that, according to the specialist, can be attributed to the fact that “the isolation experienced due to the pandemic has led people to need to feel part of a group. A community with which to share art, music and fashion just like it happened fifteen years ago, with the indie subculture “.

A style, that indie sleaze, which ten years ago was embodied by Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, Alexa Chung, Sky Ferreira, Alice Dellal, Agyness Deyn or Irina Lazareanu. But maybe it was Mary-Kate Olsen to sum it up best, combining oversized checkered shirts, checked tights, cowboy boots and feathered bands. Together with Amy WinehousAnd and micro tops that discovered lace bralettes in fluorescent tones, skinny jeans and ballet flats. A trend that in England has seen its maximum exposure in the TV series Skins while in America in the photos of Mark Hunter, whose subjects were the celebrities immortalized during and after parties and parties, in the hyper sexualization of female bodies.

THEndie sleaze in fashion

There are several designers who have marked the return of this style in recent years. From Saint Laurent in the Fall Winter 2015-2016 collections with knitted cardigans, skinny jeans and oversized checkered shirts worn as dresses, up to the Alessandro Michele for Gucci. Then Raf Simons and Marni who live and celebrate this trend. But it is above all Marc Jacobs, who in those years was partly the creator of indie sleaze, the greatest exponent to underline its return through the debut of his Heaven line in 2020, whose imagery celebrates the aesthetics of the time.