A reboot of the classic 1988 rom-com Working Girl is underway, and Selena Gomez is reportedly set to produce it (no word on if she will star in it, though). In the original film, Melanie Griffith plays Tess, a Staten Island secretary who impersonates her power suit-wearing boss Katharine (Sigourney Weaver) in a ploy to advance her career. The film’s oh-so-eighties fashion is one of its most memorable aspects. Tess navigates the workplace setting while sporting chic skirt suits—with big shoulder pads, of course!—paired with chunky sneakers and sleek briefcases.

With a 2020s reboot of the film on its way, though, we have to wonder about the fashion. We don’t know yet what decade in which the film will take place. The 1980s boardroom attire is such a signature aspect of the film, but it just so happens that cool, stylish suiting is trending on both the red carpets and on the runways this season. Should the new Working Girl take place in the 2020s, the protagonist will have plenty of options for a modern, maybe even sexy, take on a professional wardrobe.

Just take someone like Hailey Bieber, whose street style looks this summer have been heavy on smart blazers. The star recently stepped out wearing Saint Laurent’s boxy houndstooth blazer as a mini dress (a risqué office length), and paired it with sky-high stilettos. She also wore Aggi’s black skirt suit paired with white socks and chunky Bottega Veneta loafers, a modern take on the socks-and-sneakers look from the original film. If suiting seems too obvious a choice, Gomez herself has also done Working Girl style in her own way: She hit a red carpet back in June wearing a simple white shirt dress, then paired with metallic strappy sandals to dress it up.

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The fall 2022 runways have delivered their own striking takes on 9-to-5 dressing as well. At Versace, big-shouldered blazers were done up in colorful plaids and paired with bedazzled miniskirts and platform boots for a more youthful edge. At Chanel, the tweed blazer was paired with denim minis and thigh-high boots—proving a professional look can still be hip. For a more minimalist approach, the suits at Prada and Gabriela Hearst proved to be a more streamlined look than the big, boxy two-pieces of the ’80s.

Versace Fall 2022
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Chanel Fall 2022
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Chanel Fall 2022
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Now, we may be getting extremely ahead of ourselves here. The Working Girl reboot is still in early developments and has no clear release date (as of yet). But when it gets to filming, we’ll be watching closely how the costume designer interprets dressing for the office. Hopefully, they channel some serious 2020s energy and conjure up looks that are a little more risk-taking and current. We want to see outfits that would make HR executives squirm!