Who’s afraid of the skinny(-er?) jean? Not Kendall Jenner, anyway.

For some months, it’s been easy to ignore the slow, deliberate narrowing of denim. Low riding skinny jeans made a quick appearance on Miu Miu’s fall 2024 runway, but by fall 2025, slimmer shapes were shimmying in from Acne Studios to Burberry and Isabel Marant. To quell any of your milennial anxieties, though, this is the new and improved skinny jean: they have less of the Saran wrap feel of the early ’00s styles, hugging the leg in a less constricting way, in a chic selection of shades and washes—not a ripped knee in sight, either.

It’s a silhouette that makes sense too, with the return of the Gen-X era boot tuck and the continued popularity of the ballet flat . Of course, we’ve plumbed the depths of Y2K fashion, a

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