When hemlines were raised during the Swinging Sixties (courtesy of designers like Mary Quant and André Courrèges), it was the thigh-grazing mini-skirt that marked the start of a social revolution. Back then, the mini invited controversy, in that it gave women the licence to bare skin – a notion that feels completely archaic in 2019, with the mini once again returning to our radar.

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Today, the high-hemmed style inspiration comes courtesy of one of pop music’s most captivating new voices. A star who has explained to Miss Vogue that “guilty pleasures don’t exist”, Kim Petras is exactly the kind of fashion voice that resonates right now, because she tells it and wears it how it is. Which means: electrifying hues, a cacophony of clashing prints and those hiked-up hemlines, which are fast becoming her signature.

Here, Miss Vogue breaks down six times Kim Petras made the case for a higher hemline.

1. The asymmetric mini

For her very first MTV Video Music Awards in 2018, Kim pulled out a neon pink, tiger print dress with asymmetrical sleeves, fresh off Jeremy Scott’s resort 2019 Moschino runway. The details? Spiked white hoops and her characteristically lopsided bun.

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2. The boxy blazer-dress

“I want all my clothes designer,” declares Kim in her debut single "I Don’t Want It At All". Fast-forward to the musician’s appearance at the Marc Jacobs spring/summer 2019 show (her favourite designer), where Kim played with proportions in a bold-shouldered jacket and sky-high embellished pumps.

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3. The colour-match co-ord

Kim channels her inner Eighties pop star in a logo-laden jacket and skirt from Jeremy Scott’s autumn/winter 2018 collection, plus matching neon hoops and heels – to attend the designers spring/summer 2019 show at New York Fashion Week.

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4. The dark, tailored check

Putting a gothic spin on Cher Horowitz’s checkered Clueless look, Petras arrives at Equality California’s awards event in Los Angeles this September, complete with a vampy lip and smouldering eye.

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5. The elevated cycling short

Making a case for the more is more approach, Kim pairs a cinched blazer with bike shorts and signature statement shoes, at an event in Brooklyn in 2018.

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6. The cartoon kitsch

To celebrate Christian Cowan’s The Powerpuff Girls collection in March 2019, Kim dressed the part of a cartoon superhero in a feathered lilac mini-dress and coordinating purple tights (highlighter-yellow hair included).

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