A trench coat on a desk, a blazer in fluorescent light — Victoria Pedretti’s Numéro Netherlands shoot turns officewear into high-fashion subversion.
Victoria Pedretti has always thrived in liminal spaces — characters caught between fragility and ferocity. In Kolby Knight’s lens for Numéro Netherlands January 2025, that tension is translated into fashion: the office as cage, the outfit as escape.
One frame shows her standing on a desk in a beige trench coat, white shirt, and tie — the uniform of authority, undone by denim and the audacity of her stance. Another finds her perched on a desk, blazer sharp, socks visible, pen in hand — a secretary’s pose reimagined as a power play.
The embedded narrative is clear: this isn’t about workwear, it’s about the absurdity of its codes. The filing cabinets, rotary phones, and fluorescent lights become props in a satire of bureaucracy. Pedretti’s gaze — direct, unflinching — makes the viewer complicit.
Culturally, the spread nods to cinematic archetypes: the investigative journalist, the corporate rebel, the femme fatale in a boardroom. Yet it also feels distinctly 2025 — a moment when fashion is interrogating the structures of labor, gender, and authority.
Hair and makeup remain understated, allowing the clothes and poses to carry the narrative. The result is high fashion that doesn’t just dress the body — it stages a critique.
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