Indie Sleaze
Racks' Magazine
Project: "Snatched Vol. 2 Winter 2026"
Role: Art Director
Credits
Art Director: Anna De Sanctis
Designer: Naue Pagtakhan
Photographer: Piper Shanks
Writer: Kiley Arrants
Stylists: Allyssa Corpuz & Nova Hollenbeak
Models: Ary Cuellar, Eve Haghighi, Nova Hollenbeak, Chole Hunt, & Talia Bumanglag

An editorial that did not attempt to revive indie sleaze. It attempted to inhabit it. The central tension of the aesthetic is that the moment you try to capture it deliberately, you lose it entirely. It lived in blurry Facebook albums and forgotten disposable cameras, in rooms with no ring lights and no audience. The creative direction had to hold that contradiction, building something deliberate that still felt unposed, unpolished, and completely alive. The direction was never about recreating a look. It was about recreating a temperature, the specific energy of a room at 2 am, where nobody is performing for anyone, and identity is still being invented. Because a generation is not nostalgic for the clothes. They are nostalgic for the feeling of existing somewhere uncharted, loud, anonymous, and unfinished.









