Listen to Hailey Bieber—the Cigarette Jeans Trend Must Be Worn With Flip-Flops

Congratulations, Hailey Bieber, you did it. The street style star influenced me—a devout wide-leg jeans wearer—to surrender to the slim-but-not-entirely-skinny cigarette jeans trend. Even so, wearing luxury flip-flops in winter—the phenomenon she styled with her cigarette jeans on February 3—will take some more convincing.

Allow me to set the scene: While Bieber’s brand, Rhode, hosted a launch party in Big Sky, Montana, Bieber and Zoë Kravitz scored a reservation at Sushi Park in West Hollywood. (The It girls rarely reunite anywhere else.) Bieber helped her friend evade the paparazzi by posing in styles straight out of the ’90s. First, she stacked a cropped white T-shirt over a black, equally-cropped leather jacket, its collar and cuffs winterized with short shearling fur. For the first time since November, The Row’s four-figure Cecily Bag returned to Bieber’s arm.

The mogul’s once-signature, dark-wash Gap jeans earned the evening off in favor of a mid-wash, cigarette-thin pair. To quote Marie Claire‘s fashion features editor, Emma Childs, they’re “characterized by their slender silhouette and straight cut from knee to ankle, resembling the cylinder they’re named after.” Each fringe-free hem was as clean as it was slim, promising her unseasonal flip-flops a proper close-up.

As last summer’s most staunch flip-flops supporter, Bieber’s shoe rack is stocked with thongs from The Row, Toteme, Prada, Alaïa, and more. This time, she emerged from her closet wearing the flip-flops that started it all: Toteme’s $560 thongs-turned-kitten heels.