Sexed-up workwear has been in heavy rotation currently, and no one is doing it with extra aplomb than Kristen Stewart.

The star, who’s selling her queer thriller Love Lies Bleeding, wore a riff on a three-piece swimsuit whereas out in New York Metropolis. She opted for a cropped grey vest, left solely unbuttoned (and sans bra), high-waisted trousers with white distinction stitching, and an identical overcoat. Including to the open vest, Stewart and her stylist, Tara Swennen, additional subverted the outfit with punky jewellery: a silver chainlink necklace and a fistful of silver rings. Extra equipment included black wayfarers and a quilted patent leather-based Chanel purse that matched her tasseled, patent leather-based loafers. 

Suiting has been a recurrent look in queer ladies’s wardrobes for a century, from Marlene Dietrich and Katherine Hepburn practically 100 years in the past, to Boygenius and practically each Cate Blanchett character at the moment. Stewart has been a proponent of the look, and has lately loved taking part in with suiting and menswear conventions. On the premiere of Love Lies Bleeding final week, she wore a high-cut bodysuit from Bettter, a model that repurposes males’s outdated fits for womenswear. 

However attractive workwear has lately been having a second within the zeitgeist. From the TikTok “Workplace Siren” pattern to the low-cut and cropped takes on usually office-friendly items that celebrities wore at Miu Miu, Loewe, and Dior’s fall 2024 present earlier this month. Whether or not attractive workwear is one other fleeting pattern or a viable motion, it’s secure to say that no one’s doing it as effortlessly as Kristen Stewart.