TikTok Divas #likearockstar

Rock styling is a set of borrowed signals: leather, hardware, boots, damage, black, and hair that has clearly been dealt with rather than done.

The problem is that all of them are well known, so using all of them at once produces a costume. What makes a look convincing is usually one or two of those signals sitting inside an otherwise ordinary outfit, because that is how people actually dress. The jacket over something plain. The boots under something soft.

Build the full version first so you can see the costume, then take pieces away until it turns back into a person.