New cut? Make mine a Mia
Crops don’t come more famous than Mia Farrow’s,
as seen in the 1968 Roman Polanski film Rosemary’s
Baby (chilling storyline, great hair), and that’s the
cut to ask for if you’re going short for summer.
We saw them on the catwalk at Alexander
McQueen and Chanel, the Euphoria star
Alexa Demie marked the series finale
(don’t worry, there’s another series
coming) with a new crop, and on the red
carpet Léa Seydoux, Daisy Ridley (right),
Florence Pugh and Rebecca Hall (above
right) have been showing just how much
you can do with a few inches of hair,
wearing theirs shaggy, sleek and shiny, or
even jewelled down the parting, as Pugh’s was.
“There isn’t really a one-size-fits-all approach
to the pixie crop, which makes it quite a
versatile cut,” says the celebrity hairdresser
George Northwood, whose clients include
Alexa Chung and Rosie Huntington-
Whiteley. “You can wear it quite casually as
well as more formally. For the iconic Mia
Farrow pixie, ask your hairdresser for a softer,
undone pixie crop with tons of texture,
paired with a shorter fringe.”
Before you cut it all off, though, a word of
caution: “As the name suggests, it usually suits
more angular face shapes with pixie-esque
features. You also need to think about your ears,
as a lot of women are used to them being covered with
longer hair.” From ear-baring to face framing, a cut like
this is a big change in the hairdresser’s chair — but just
think of the earring potential.Grab a designer
deckchair
If your garden is currently a scrubby
patch of soil, make haste — predictions
for an April heatwave mean that
summery days might come sooner
rather than later. All you need are a
few deckchairs, as spotted lining
the Miu Miu front row at Paris
fashion week (yes, even top
editors had to lever themselves in
and out of them — not easy in
stilettos or, squeak, skintight leather
trousers). Stripes are in: see the pink
and white by Business & Pleasure
Co (left), with matching parasol, or
try the Conran Shop for a yellow stripe
the colour of Amalfi lemons, as
squeezed by Stanley Tucci in his
BBC2 show Searching for Italy. But
who needs Positano when you can turn
your terrace into something from
a Slim Aarons photograph (below)?
Pink, £230; selfridges.com.
Yellow, £165; conranshop.co.uk.
Terracotta, £65; laredoute.co.ukVALENTINOVidal Sassoon
cutting Mia
Farrow’s hair, 1967MIU MIUGrow your
gallery wall
Finding an artwork by Jeremy
Deller, Nan Goldin, Tai Shani
or Lisa Brice (right) for £170 is
quite the coup in itself — and
that’s before you consider that
this is shopping with a social
conscience. These artists and
many more have each donated
an open edition of their prints
to the Solidarity Print Sale,
with proceeds going to
Artists at Risk, a non-
profitmaking organisation
supporting artists affected by
the invasion of Ukraine. Until
April 30; solidarityprints.org
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