There’s nothing wrong with looking attractive in what you’re wearing, but from Temime’s perspective, it was also important that the women were wearing things that would likely be in their closet, thus making the sexuality of the leading ladies, from Naomi Harris’ Moneypenny in Skyfall to Lea Seydoux’s Madeleine Swann in Spectre, comes across as more feminist.
When looking at the outfits worn in past James Bond movies, sometimes it does indeed appear as if they were put together solely to satisfy the male gaze.
As Jany Temime noted in her interview with Syfy Wire, the goal wasn’t to make the women in either Skyfall or Spectre not look sexy, but to incorporate functionality and logic into their wardrobe.