Zendaya has never met a hair length she couldn’t pull off. Micro bobs, sleek lobs, waist-grazing waves—she has made her way through just about every point on the hairstyle spectrum. Her latest cut might be her shortest in recent memory.
Attending the Prada Paradoxe pop-up party during New York Fashion Week, the actor debuted a fully fledged pixie: closely cropped at the back, with soft curls coiffed high on the crown and fluffed into an airy, frizz-free shape. It’s a naturally conclusion to Zendaya’s gradual journey upwards: Around Christmastime last year, she cut her hair into a curly bob-pixie hybrid, before experimenting with a longer bixie. Now, she has decided to fully commit to the chop.
It’s quite the about-face from The Odyssey press tour. For her blockbuster promotional run, Zendaya returned to goddess-like lengths, working with hairstylist Coree Moreno on waist-skimming waves and tendrils of extensions that more than matched the drama of her Schiaparelli couture gowns and sweeping Jacquemus drapery. Where that hair was mythic and statuesque, her new pixie feels light, romantic and a little playful.
The rest of her Prada look followed suit. Zendaya wore a bottle-green sweater layered over a pink button-down, with a brown slip skirt flecked with chartreuse embellishments. Rather than play up the severity that can come with an ultra-short crop, the styling leaned into its softness and femininity.
Photo: Ernesto Casillas
Photo: Ernesto Casillas
