Miss High Leg Kick extravagantly embodies the crisis of femininity. Her triumphant arrival onstage, greeted by whoops and cheers, generates faith in the perfectibility of the image. For a glorious moment, we are believers in the transcendent power of glamour. Watching her channelling different female identities (Princess Diana, an eighties exercise babe), we believe that we too could conquer nature and channel our own alluring feminine ‘icons’.