The white knee-length skirt - the one Grace Kelly wore in „Rear Window" in 1954 - is coming back as a trend for spring 2026. Not as a new fashion. As something that never really went away, and is now returning to the most beautiful terraces of Madrid and Lisbon.

Alfred Hitchcock and costume designer Edith Head shaped Grace Kelly's wardrobe as a symbol of New York aristocracy. A cinched waist, a clean upper line, a generous, flowing white skirt - that is the silhouette Christian Dior built up into the „New Look" and used to open a new era in fashion.

Why is it coming back right now? Fashion history says - every time the price of luxury starts to lose any sense and trends change every three months, people start looking for something that lasts. The white knee-length skirt is a piece that survived the miniskirts of the 60s, the minimalism of the 90s, the oversize period of the 2000s. And it still works.

Stylists this season see it as the base for five different combinations. With an olive-coloured T-shirt - a daytime look, coffee on a garden terrace. With a white blouse and a brown leather belt - office without the formality. With knitwear and short boots - even for a spring dinner at a mountain inn. For those who want „glamour" - with a buttoned shirt and Manolos. And the most direct approach - with a sleeveless top and flat sandals, for those 30-degree days that hit Skopje as early as May.

What is the special thing? The skirt works at 20 and at 50. That is what Hitchcock and Grace Kelly understood 70 years ago - the female figure does not change with time, only with attitude. And the white knee-length skirt is the tool that lets that show.