If you’ve been knocking around the coffee shops, dive bars and small plates restaurants in the cool neighborhoods of New York, Los Angeles, or London recently, you’ll probably have noticed a particular haircut constantly in your periphery. Maybe you already know the one I’m talking about. Maybe you’re even considering succumbing to the style yourself. I’m referring to the curtain crop. The one that’s not dissimilar to the softer, more feminine pixie style we saw a lot of last year, only it’s 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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What is the curtain crop?
Sam Rubinstein, founder of London-based Rooibos salon, tells me that, right now, the curtain crop is one of their “most requested haircuts.” But, they add, “No one ever knows what to call it—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.)
