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Sexy Slit Dresses Through Red Carpet History

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Model Chrissy Teigen at the 2016 American Music Awards in a dress by Australian designer Yousef Akbar. 

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Bella Hadid posed on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival this year in a slinky red Alexandre Vauthier gown. 

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Italian models Dayane Mello and Giulia Salemi attend the premiere of The Young Pope during this year’s Venice Film Festival. 

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Kendall Jenner in a Fausto Puglisi gown at the MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVA) in 2014. 

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Model Anja Rubik at the Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2012. 

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Elizabeth Hurley with then-boyfriend Hugh Grant at the post-premiere party of Grant’s film, Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994. 

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Gwyneth Paltrow in a daring Pucci dress at a special Beverly Hills screening of Country Strong in 2010. 

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