The Film That Fashion’s Been Stealing From for 20 Years
It was never supposed to be stylish. Gummo (1997) is a film that reeks of rot—rusty bathtubs, broken towns, kids numb from too much nothing.
And yet… fashion keeps crawling back to it.
Chloë Sevigny didn’t dress those characters to look cool. She raided thrift bins, borrowed her own closet. Metal tees, animal prints, ripped tights—filthy, jarring, real. That “just threw it on” chaos? It’s been ripped off by runways ever since.
Supreme printed its scenes on tees. MSGM rewrote its dirt-core angst into glossy fabrics. Gummo never asked to be a muse—but the world, starving for authenticity, turned to its decay.
Maybe we keep copying it because it didn’t try.
Because real doesn’t age.
Which movie’s fashion hit you like that—raw, wrong, unforgettable? Drop it in the comments. I want to know.
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