Office outfits: corporate girls from TV and film to take fashion inspiration from Let's ask the screen how to dress for work
As more and more workplace movies make their way into mainstream culture – like Mary Harron's American Psycho, David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada, and Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street – designers like Sabato De Sarno and Miuccia Prada incorporate more business attire into their collections, and social networks like TikTok create trends like the acclaimed Office Siren look, it's hard not to recognize the trend of the moment: the corporate look.
Office Siren and Corporate Core on TikTok: how to dress in the office?
From bayonetta glasses to blazers, the Office Siren trend flirts with whimsy and formality, rescuing many 90s fashion trends and a few from the 2000s. While the look aims to mix the late Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's personal style with model and actress Gisele Bündchen's look in the film The Devil Wears Prada, Italian label Miu Miu is credited with cementing this new aesthetic – with collections like Fall 2022 and Fall 2023 – along with supermodel, beauty entrepreneur, and activist Bella Hadid, known for her eclectic street style that often incorporates business attire. With this look taking the fashion world by storm, here are some corporate girls' looks in movies and series to inspire your inner bossy legend.
Miranda Hobbes (Sex and The City)
From being one of the muses of the infamous quiet luxury to power suit in season two onwards, Shiv Roy – played by Sarah Snook – in HBO acclaimed series Succession remains as one of the main sources for inspiration when the sartorial memo is sleek chic.
