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Kim Kardashian loves a pencil skirt. Invariably tight, cinched in at the waist and falling just below the knee, she has worn them with camisoles, leotards, plain white tees, that oversized Celine coat and crop tops. She probably would have worn one to her wedding had Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci not stepped in with his yards of white lace.Kim Kardashian loves a pencil skirt. Invariably tight, cinched in at the waist and falling just below the knee, she has worn them with camisoles, leotards, plain white tees, that oversized Celine coat and crop tops. She probably would have worn one to her wedding had Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci not stepped in with his yards of white lace.
While we have yet to see the impact of said wedding dress, the pencil skirt – now one of the Kimye house codes, you might say – has started to venture into the wardrobes of other people. Beyoncé, complete with new braids, wore a white gridded pencil skirt this week, cinching it in with a beige belt. Others have adopted them too – from Miranda Kerr to Rita Ora and Naya Rivera, aka the scary cheerleader off Glee, who wore an almost identical outfit to Kim’s crop top plus pencil skirt look at Michael Kors’ show in February.While we have yet to see the impact of said wedding dress, the pencil skirt – now one of the Kimye house codes, you might say – has started to venture into the wardrobes of other people. Beyoncé, complete with new braids, wore a white gridded pencil skirt this week, cinching it in with a beige belt. Others have adopted them too – from Miranda Kerr to Rita Ora and Naya Rivera, aka the scary cheerleader off Glee, who wore an almost identical outfit to Kim’s crop top plus pencil skirt look at Michael Kors’ show in February.
Working out why this has happened is not rocket science. Pencil skirts have long been shorthand for "sexy" – as exemplified by Marilyn Monroe wiggling down the train platform in Some Like It Hot. Like Marilyn, Kim is in possession of va-va-voom curves that look best in figure-hugging shapes – Tisci even called her “the Marilyn Monroe of our age”. Pencil skirts might not be particularly fashionable at the moment but who cares? Pure sex appeal sometimes trumps catwalk trend. This is one of those times. Working out why this has happened is not rocket science. Pencil skirts have long been shorthand for "sexy" – as exemplified by Marilyn Monroe wiggling down the train platform in Some Like It Hot. Like Marilyn, Kim is in possession of va-va-voom curves that look best in figure-hugging shapes – Tisci even called her “the Marilyn Monroe of our age”. Pencil skirts might not be particularly fashionable at the moment but who cares? Pure sex appeal sometimes trumps catwalk trend. This is one of those times.