Corporate

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Reason: This page misclassifies a functional uniform and institution as a curatable aesthetic. "Corporate" describes professional dress codes and business culture, not a distinct visual style with a community and philosophy. The page is an uncurated conceptual dump of media and tropes related to office environments, and it fails to meet the wiki's core principle of documenting a specific, verifiable aesthetic. Making or improving pages for more specific, curatable aesthetics related to corporate culture (e.g., Yuppie, Office Siren, Chic Modernist) is highly recommended.

Corporate is an aesthetic that relates to business attire that refers to the clothing that employees wear to work. Depending on the workplace, various levels of the formality of business attire are expected, and the norm. The dress codes range from traditional and formal to smart casual, business casual, and casual.

Visuals[]

The Corporate aesthetic often avoids exaggerated outfits and bright colors, resorting to more monotonous and grey-tone colors that add to the sleekness and sterility of office buildings.

Corporate as Streetwear[]

Many people nowadays use Corporate attire for aesthetic purposes. It is now used for day-to-day streetwear by some people who have a preference for professionalism and maturity. Since people in general usually own formal wardrobe, this aesthetic is inclusive for everyone and therefore it has no certain community or specific names for this kind of streetwear.

This attire also serves for an entertainment purpose, such as cosplaying. From the western movie Reservoir Dogs (1992) to Japanese manga Chainsaw Man (since 2018), people are no longer limited to using Corporate wear for work.

Media[]

Anime/Mangas & Light Novel[]

Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto (2018-)

Books[]

The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker (1988)

Movies[]

9 to 5 (1980)
American Psycho (2000)
Office Space (1999)
The Big Short (2015)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Up In The Air (2009)
Wall Street (1987)

TV Shows[]

20 Things to Do Before You're 30 (2002)
Mad Men (2007-2015)
Monday Monday (2009)
The Office (2005-2013)
Industry (2020-)
Severance (2022-)

Music[]

A lot of corporate music is easy-listening, kinda jazzy, and instrumental. A lot of Corporate-sounding music has been sampled to make a lot of Vaporwave music which, ironically, can also be part of the Corporate musical sound once more.