Chloë Sevigny Is Over the Skinny Jeans Discourse
Chloë Sevigny Is Over the Skinny Jeans Discourse
Camille FreestoneSat, September 12, 2026 at 11:49 AM UTC
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Last season, Nicola Brognano showed his first collection for the denim brand so many grew up with: 7 For All Mankind. What he did with it, no one could have predicted—least of all their new campaign star and brand ambassador Chloë Sevigny. Brognano came to the denim brand from Milan’s Blumarine, where he had established a distinctly Y2K-leaning aesthetic. He doubled down on the look for 7 For All Mankind, injecting that same salacious, early-aughts energy into the new collection. Back in February for Fall 2026, he showed skinny jeans, long denim skirts, shrunken leather jackets, and little satin cocktail dresses. “I don't know if I was expecting that,” laughs Sevigny over the phone.
Sevigny is known for her radical style, as well. Her approach to fashion has earned her a loyal fan base. She’s always the first to wear the coolest emerging designers and try unconventional silhouettes—and she never does it for the bit. It’s why she looks right at home in that violet satin cocktail dress from the first collection fronting the new 7FAM campaign.
“I loved what Brognano did at Blumarine,” Sevigny says. “I think he has a great eye, and that he brings a lot of joy and sex appeal to his projects,” she continues. “I don't know what I was anticipating, but it was a pleasant surprise.”
Ahead of today’s Spring 2027 7 For All Mankind show, Sevigny gets into Y2K style, skinny jeans, and why she enjoys a bit of messiness on the red carpet.
Getty ImagesHow has it been to try on the 7 For All Mankind character for size?
So fun. I love the clothes. I love a princess sleeve. I love denim in all shapes and forms and sizes. I love a long denim skirt. I have several vintage ones; they just feel really good. I feel like there's the sexiness, how he showed it on the runway, and then there's also a little bit of an elegance, like a daytime elegance to them that I feel is all incorporated into my own day-to-day life. And I'm really excited to get my hands on some pieces. In fact, I keep asking.
Are you game for the skinny jeans revival?
I don't know if the skinny jeans are my thing, entirely. I don't know if I ever really was a skinny girl. I guess I had a lot of the early Nicolas [Ghesquière] for Balenciaga pants when he was doing the low waist, but they weren't super low, and they had a bit more of a straight leg. Everybody likes a different flavor. Denim comes in many shapes and sizes, as do our bodies. And I feel like that is the ultimate quest for every person I know to find the right pair of jeans.
Did you ever do a platform stiletto?
No, no, I don't think so. I did a Miu Miu platform, but it wasn't a stiletto; I remember specifically a yellow pair with crystals that I wore. I wore a smocked skirt and top with these crystals on it too, I think, to an event in L.A., with platform shoes. But I wasn't wearing the Victoria Beckham style YSL ones. That was never my jam.
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Getty ImagesI feel like Nicola Brognano is such a good emblem of this with his Blumarine and then 7FAM: Y2K and Indie Sleaze feel like the trends fashion can't quit.
Right, I wonder if it's because it also is a mix of other eras. It's just the perfect mashup, and I think people are always looking to something that happened just before. I guess it's a shape that young people always go back to.
There's something almost punk about it, too.
Well, attaching the word “sleaze” definitely helps with that. Fashion is also a fantasy. The party-girl “messy” thing is also, for me, refreshing. I admire polish, but I think there's too much emphasis and pressure on being so perfect, especially for women. To lean into giving girls the freedom to have messy hair, from Prada at the high fashion level to a more palatable version of that, at 7FAM, hopefully gets us away from that kind of Instagram-filtered, perfect look. For me, leaning into that is a welcome trend and refreshing and I think good for girls.
Getty ImagesIs it funny to watch the reinterpretation of eras you lived through?
It is and I isn’t because in that era, I was doing something very different. I was not doing this Lindsay, Mary-Kate and Ashley, even Kate Moss, messy party girl vibe. People always project that onto me so much. I mean, of course I had my moments. I was out. I was single for most of my 30s, so I was definitely out there on the hunt. I think of all the tabloid magazines trying to capture younger girls in precarious situations and that was so horrible, and it was normalized. But I also think about all the fun nights I had out at Black and White and different bars and nightclubs around the city and just what a fun period of your life that is. Not that life is over as a mom, but I'm not going out till they turn on the lights anymore, which used to be my M.O.
The 7 show was very much about the mood board with Nicola talking so much about the old images that really inspired him. Where are you doing your own archival research?
Well, I've been working on a new book, an archive of my own images. But I am on Instagram—more often than I’d like—seeing images and photographing them and sending them to Hailey [Wollens], my stylist, like “Oh, look at this moment.” But I feel like I have a pretty curated feed that's inspiring a lot of the time. Hailey and I are always in an ongoing collaboration as far as images we're making together, or outfits, et cetera. We have a really vibrant back and forth with that kind of thing, and she has such a great eye. So I guess I am always constantly making a mood board on my phone.
Getty ImagesAnything that's really resonated with you recently?
I mean, the Japanese magazines. I love how wild the kids got—the mixing. The shapes and the silhouettes were so fun and ambitious and different from today when I'm walking around the West Village and everybody's in their shapewear. I do understand certain shapewear can actually make you look really good and how challenging some bodies are to dress, so I can see why people lean into that and how challenging some bodies are to dress, but maybe there could be a denim version? There's got to be something else more elevated.
Even a skinny jean makes you feel something, good or bad.
Yeah, shouldn't all fashion? I mean, isn't that what we're all hoping for? Some sort of reaction, good, bad, somewhere in the middle. Meanwhile, my mom was like, "I don't like those low-rise jeans." I'm like, "Yeah, you're 80, but someone does. Take it easy.”
7FAM definitely gives you a gut reaction.
Yeah! I really responded to the puffy mutton sleeve. It feels like very early Margiela, those shapes with the long denim skirts. That was very much what I liked of that era. There was some of that in the collection, more so than just the skinny, low-rise jean, which is what people always go back to over and over. It’s a little stale as a talking point. I think there's something nice with all the gloves and the chunky knits. There was so much in that collection. And the jewels. I thought of Alber Elbaz and Lanvin, how he would put big jewels on everything. I saw a lot more in that collection than just Indie Sleaze.
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