Everybody is going even shorter than the ever-trending bob in 2025. It first started with Emma Stone giving us a pixie straight out of Rosemary’s Baby at the Golden Globes and just kept going with Julia Fox’s debut of the “curtain crop” haircut last night.
Not familiar with the style? The curtain crop is not dissimilar to the softer, more feminine pixie but is much more grown-out and androgynous, with a floppy middle part or curtains for that added nonchalance. Think: a mixture of Keira Knightley in Bend It Like Beckham, Gina Gershon in Bound, and Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix. It’s essentially a style that’s custom-made for running your fingers through, and looking thoroughly unbothered while doing so (like a young Leo DiCaprio, but for the girls and the theys).
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Sam Rubinstein, founder of London-based Rooibos salon says the curtain crop is one of their “most requested haircuts” of the moment. “No one ever knows what to call it,” Rubinstein adds with a laugh. “A shaggy bob? A face-framing bob, a soft ’90s bob, a grown-out mullet-phase bob, or my personal favorite, the Gina Gershon in Bound bob?”
Either way, “I’d have to say it’s the most low-maintenance, androgynous, easy-to-style haircut out there at the moment. It’s my go-to as it gives the immediate impact of nonchalant coolness, with the added sprinkle of trying to signal that you may very well also be part of the LGBTQ community.” (As a professional lesbian, I can confirm that I first saw this floppy haircut in queer bars before, like the humble carabiner, it slowly started branching out to encompass my straight and/or cis friends too.)
