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If you lived through the 2016 millennial girl boss era, you might have mixed feelings about power suits. I know I do.

To this day, colorful cropped trousers and matching blazers bring back early workplace memories of fetching coffee orders and hating my life. My taste has always skewed more sultry office siren, à la Romy and Michele’s “business woman special” attire when it comes to dressing for the office. Whether that style preference is because of (or in spite of) the travails of early 20s, I still prefer kitten heels and pencil skirts to pastel separates and razor sharp high heels. The girl boss era of fashion, generally speaking, gives me the ick.

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Netflix’s new show Running Point, however, is changing my mind. The series, which premiered on February 27, follows the loveably messy but equally competent Isla Gordon, played by Kate Hudson, as she navigates the trials and tribulations of running not-your-average family business: an iconic NBA franchise.

Isla is a woman in a man’s world, quite literally. She has three failson brothers to contend with: Cam (played by Justin Theroux), the L.A. team’s drug-addled former CEO who’s been shipped off to rehab, Sandy (Drew Tarver), the team’s savvy yet repressed CFO who just wants his boyfriend back, and the deeply weird (but also kind of adorable?) team manager Ness (Scott MacArthur) who’s all over the place emotionally. She has to keep the all-male players (one of whom is played by Chet Hanks—he’s actually really good!) in check with no one but her steely head of PR (Brenda Song) to commiserate about the gender dynamics of it all.

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It’s a funny, charming, and highly addictive show—but the fashion scores extra points in Running Point‘s fabulously dysfunctional world. “We wanted her to be a girl boss, keep her femininity in what is a boy’s club of professional sports,” says costume designer Salvador Perez of his approach to outfitting Isla. “As opposed to doing men’s tailoring, we kept her femininity and used it as her super power.”

Isla’s balance of confidence and cool nails the elusive work-appropriate outfit with oomph. By leaning into the statement-making side of her character, Perez has created a fantasy work wardrobe that’s inspiring working women everywhere. Online, people are suddenly shopping yellow suits like Isla’s and talking about power dressing again.

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Complete with gorgeous blouses and funky asymmetrical tops, this take on corporate dressing has personally won me over—and made me rethink girl boss fashion. Isla’s clothes are worthy of a nepo baby CEO: covetable, expensive, and just a touch relatable. But this look is more daring than its predecessors—several of Hudson’s low-cut blazers push the boundaries of corporate style—and there’s not a stitch of 2016 era power pink in sight. This is the DGAF girl boss uniform for 2025: brash, bold, and sexier than before.

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“There is a lot of Kate Hudson in Isla,” says Perez, who worked with Hudson’s personal stylist Sophie Lopez to help bring the character to life. Both character and actress alike enjoy “taking fashion to new levels,” says the costume designer. And that’s the secret sauce behind Running Point‘s winning fashion formula: pushing the dress code limits. After all, dressing for the corporate grind as a woman who loves clothes isn’t for the faint of heart. Business casual attire is often drab, colorless, and anonymous—risk-taking is required if you want to have personal style at work. Is it unfair that working women are still judged by their clothes? Of course, but it’s undeniably empowering to know that and wear the crazy thing regardless.

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You can imagine Isla second-guessing the plunging pinstripes she wears in episode 4 to the League’s owner conference. But only for a second, and then she confidently puts them on anyway. It’s this provocative, look-at-me side to her wardrobe that sets Running Point‘s girl boss fashion apart. As Perez puts it, “Every day was look at me! I’m in charge.”