It was the skirt of the season. If you could call it a skirt. Pleated, dangerously low-slung and precariously truncated within millimetres of impropriety, that viral Miu Miu miniskirt requires about as much introduction as the coverage it offers: little to none.
Debuting on Miu Miu’s spring/summer 2022 catwalk in Paris last October, the micro lengths of said skirt and its pseudo-collegiate, ab-baring, cable-knit, crop-top combo sent showgoers into a frenzy. The smartphone camera tap heard around the Palais d’Iéna show space was soon heard around the world, multiplying into double taps that echoed throughout the channels of social media.
Editorials soon followed and skirt was seen on actors Nicole Kidman, Emma Corrin and Zendaya, models Paloma Elsesser, Lara Stone and Emily Ratajkowski, rapper Saweetie and activist Maxim Magnus, defying anyone who thought the mini was for a single body type. It moved at lighting speed into high-street retailers such as ASOS and Shein, where punters could pick up a copy for less
