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The most recent ready-to-wear collections in Paris and Milan — the houses of Fendi, Prada, Versace and Dior, Alaïa, Miu Miu and Moschino — all reinterpreted fashion’s most celebrated abbreviation with new shock and show versions. With hip-hugging and A-line styles in slub silk, pearl crust and gold leaf, their hems slashed to the upper thigh, the modern take on minis brought to mind not the dizzy, sexually callow 1960s — it was more Paris and Nicole’s trucker-cap chic in The Simple Life and Christina Aguilera’s artfully tattered, belt-width, mud-wrestled ensembles as worn in her racy, sweaty, David LaChapelle-directed ‘Dirrty’ video. The accepted demographic has altered as radically as the hemline; miniskirts are worn, this time around, not just by the young, skinny and Bambi-limbed but also the plus-sizes and power-matured — 54-year-old Carla Bruni, Milla Jovovich, 46, and Naomi Campbell, 51, all rocking new look pearl-encrusted minis for Balmain.

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