Provided that Amy Winehouse is entrance and centre of inventive administrators’ moodboards (hello, Seán McGirr at Alexander McQueen, Interpol have introduced a UK tour, and Alexa Chung is in presenting mode (see the latest Louis Vuitton VIP arrivals stay stream), you’d be forgiven for considering that the world had been shot violently backwards to 2004. Notably if like me, you noticed Interpol play their first two albums again to again in the dead of night and beer-sticky confines of Birmingham Academy that 12 months, and also you’ve been confronted by the very fact they’re returning to previous Blighty to have a good time the twentieth anniversary of mentioned tour.

Fortunately, I can’t entry many images of what I may need worn to that gig (I requested my husband to alter my Fb password in 2020), however I can think about my interchangeable Topshop or H&M spray-on skinny denims prevented a lot decrease physique motion, my monstrous aspect fringe made for mainly zero visibility of the stage, and that the possibility I’d must peel considered one of my gold Topshop ballet flats from the Carling cup-caked ground because the lights got here on was excessive.

For many of us who got here of age listening to The Strokes and The Libertines, danced in golf equipment which have been primarily cesspits (when smoking inside was nonetheless authorized!), and pledged teenage allegiance to skinny scarves, spindly heels from charity outlets and something they may afford in American Attire, the oft-threatened indie sleaze resurgence is sufficient to ship shivers down their as soon as indie Cindy backbone. In spite of everything, legendary Soho nightclub Madame JoJos–which hosted famend indie membership night time White Warmth and impromptu acoustic performances by Jamie T–closed in 2015, Pete Doherty now lives in rural France and Blur’s Alex James spends extra time making cheese than music (the much less mentioned about his “cheddar and tikka masala” taste for Asda the higher). Plus, I by no means need to fake to love whiskey and coke, or Hadouken, once more.

It seems nonetheless, that swerving the indie sleaze revival shouldn’t be that easy. Mere weeks in the past, Kate Moss–who alongside the unofficial Queen of Camden Lock Amy Winehouse, grew to become the poster lady of indie-cool within the noughties–was seen purchasing within the Cotswolds in a pair of low-rise (!) stonewashed skinny denims, ballet flats and RayBans. Likewise, Miuccia Prada grew to become the doyenne of the drainpipe, when ankle-squeezing denim appeared on the latest autumn/winter 2024 runway, teamed with a pair of chunky brogues which Carl Barat would approve of. Skinnies additionally made notable appearances on the Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen catwalks.

Naturally, dialog at Vogue HQ has turned to who nonetheless has skinny denims of their wardrobe. Again house, I had a rummage by means of my very own sizable stack of denim, which nowadays displays a rotating dedication to the boyfriend match, the bootcut, the emphatically dishevelled, the bell backside and the flare. There’s Japanese selvedge denim, ripped denim, stonewashed denim, darkish denim, however on the subject of the stretchy drainpipe silhouette, all traces of elastane have been abolished.

So, when tasked with check driving the thin jean comeback, I turned to my previous devoted denim manufacturers for choices: Mom, Agolde and Body. Tempted by the taper? Learn on to learn the way I’d model the thin jean now…

The darkish denim skinny jean