The bad news just keeps coming in 2020. Keeping Up With The Kardashians is, sob, no more. Alerting fans on Instagram, 5 million of whom liked the post, Kim Kardashian said that it was with ‘heavy hearts’ that the family will be saying goodbye to the show after the last season airs in early 2021.
Reality TV won’t ever be the same again and, neither, we’ve realised will our wardrobes. Whether you clocked it or not, so many of the past few decade’s most outrageous fashion trends have come straight from the (bursting) closets of Kim, Khloe, Kourtney, Kendall and Kylie. Without further ado, here are 12 of the most surprising.
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1 of 12The Patent Pump
Sorry K-Mid, but Kim-K discovered the patent pump, and its vertiginous power, first. Taken in 2009, we wonder if this sky-high grey pair survived the famous cull by Kanye West?
2 of 12Lampshading
To you or I, lampshading is an avant-garde interior design trick. To the Kardshians, it's a styling device perfected in the mid-aughts whereby your voluminous top half is balanced by your slimline bottom half so that you look, ahem, like a lampshade.
3 of 12The Furry Gilet
Do you remember when everyone was obsessed with gilets around 2010? Olivia Palermo still is, but it all started with Kim, and this furry number worn with the lo-fi (well, it's all relative) combination of skinny jeans and a Birkin.
4 of 12The Handbag Charm
On seeing this picture in May 2016, I immediately rushed out and bought a handbag charm (a lemon, if memory serves). Kendall Jenner, and her collection of Fendi, had just created a whole new accessory category to lust over. Impressive, no?
5 of 12The Invisible Shoe
First came the naked dress, then the invisible shoe, demonstrated by this 'is it there, is it not?' pair in September 2016.
6 of 12The Beige Over
OK, Kim didn't invent beige, but the reason it crops up season in, season out is because she made it a permanent thing circa 2014. We bow down.
7 of 12The Luxe Tracksuit
Nowadays, we all wear head-to-toe trackies, but the first luxe version came courtesy of Kendall. Snapped outside the airport in April 2016, it cemented 'althleisure' as the decade's biggest trend.
8 of 12The Tube Skirt
The tube top was big in the '90s, but Kim pioneered its partner in crime, the tube skirt, back in September 2014.
9 of 12The Naked Dress
This doesn't look so risqué now, but back in 2017, the naked dress was still in its infancy. P.S. If you think it looks barely-there from the front, you should see the back.
10 of 12The Cycling Short
Remember when it was just middle aged men wearing lycra (MAMILs) who dared to sport cycling shorts? Well in 2017, everything changed. Kendall strode out wearing a pair - and now we have to deal with things like their significantly worse cousin, denim cycling shorts, on Instagram. Great.
11 of 12The Matrix Shades
Something strange happened to sunglasses around 2017. Gone were the bug-eyed styles (popularised by Anna Wintour and Victoria Beckham), only to be replaced by teeny-tiny shades that looked straight out of The Matrix. Neo would be proud.
12 of 12The Sexy Cardigan
The cardigan has a whole new lease of life for AW20, but it was Kendall, and a sexily see-through style, who made it a thing back in 2017.