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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

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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.

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