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A very chic friend who works for a New York department store recently confided that she felt past her fashion sell-by date on a trip to London last month. While she was wearing boot-cut Seven jeans, she noticed that all the stylish young women in the capital had adopted skinny-legged denim. Suddenly, her flattering, leg-lengthening jeans were woefully out of date and all she wanted was a pair of Superfine's "Liberty" jeans, which were already a sell-out across the city.

Skinny jeans have had a meteoric rise thanks to the numerous paparazzi shots of denim-clad Scarlett Johansson and Kate Moss in them. Moss has been wearing drainpipes for at least a year, but recently her signature look of a striped top, grey skinny jeans and black ballet pumps has done more to popularise the new silhouette than any number of catwalk images.

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Not that this trend has very much to do with designers - it's the cool, premium denim labels that have introduced the new styles. Anna Garner, head of fashion at Selfridges, believes it's a look that has come from the streets, too. "London girls have really put this look together themselves - it's a backlash to this autumn's grown-up elegance and also part of a 1980s revival," she says. Full Story