Street style: in Paris, miniskirts shorter than ever herald spring

September 2021. When the Fashion Weeks of New York, Milan or Paris presented their spring 2022 collections, the catwalks seemed to shout in unison: “Get ready, the mini will be on all your legs”.

The period was still, let us remember, in tune with a comfortable wardrobe embodied by a wave of jogging pants and other wide pants, and decried by the big names in fashion as a form of clothing slack.

Six months later, we see that the podiums have been right.

The miniskirt is making a comeback around the Fashion Week shows

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The time has come for this little piece of fabric which alone bears the legacy of the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s. In the street, near fashion shows, on the shelves of the most accessible stores big luxury brands, on networks and celebrities... The miniskirt is everywhere, and even more shortened than originally.

Invented by Mary Quant in 1964, then taken up in stride by the futurist avant-garde André Courrèges, it is, in reality, only a shorter model of the skirts which, until then, stopped below the knee. .

Mary Quant then had in mind to free women from this strict and very “Madame” proposal to allow them to move, walk, run, dance without hindrance.

An emancipation that the British designer wanted accompanied by a very sensual representation of women.

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“, she said, about the message that her creation carried.

In 2022, the miniskirt continues its emancipation by teaming up with crop tops that reveal the navel, heels, trains, sneakers or boots with notched soles.