2021 - The year that fashion suddenly exploded into vivid colour, embellishment, and exaggerated silhouettes.
Featuring heavily in the runway presentations, campaigns and lookbooks of the world’s most recognisable luxury brands, the micro bob is the perfect accessory to 2022’s exuberant wardrobe.
Unlike our previous period of maximalism in the 80’s which saw big hair, big makeup, and even bigger shoulder-pads all happily coexisting, the microbob brings an element of calm and restraint to today’s excess – a quiet moment of modernity to complement this post-modern mashup that has loudly and brashly announced itself.
The microbob is hairstyling’s answer to the micromini (also a hot ticket right now). Take a couple of extra inches off the bottom and you have the bold and brazen cousin to a regular old bob, which all of a sudden is looking somewhat conservative and demure. (Still a classic though!)
It’s the perfect antidote to what has probably been the absolute weirdest 18 months in the history of our lives. The microbob looks amazing with a blazer, super cute with bike shorts and loves an oversized earring. It’s right at home in the pool or the sea or under an outdoor shower. The BEST thing about it though is that cool breezy feeling that you get at the back of your neck, there’s nothing quite like it.
HUGE earrings are a gamechanger for microbobs
An easy way to give deconstructed tailoring some class
Curl and color blocking at Dior
If you like to be taken seriously
If you REALLY don't wanna be messed with
Giving us major Helmut Lang vibes RIP
Oversized blazer - undersized hair
When minimalism and surrealism both swipe right
The geeks were right
Way to show off a good jawline, flaunt it!
Microbob and monochrome hand in hand at Chanel
All the things - drop earrings, hardware, midriff and a centre part
Do it with curly hair it's super cute
A goth version because that is a thing too
Microbob's bff is the microbang
Actually the only way to wear a side part right now
Freja knows
NZ made supermodel Georgia Fowler is a beat ahead as usual
Off-duty microbob goes perfectly with your microbag
We like to call this "swimbob", dewy skin and glossy brows are a must
Bleach your brows if you dare
Pale faced and pastel
Definitely our powercut of choice
We just had to include the OG 90's microbob with Patricia Arquette
Add some hardware
Bare faced, brutal, beautiful
Side part and a slide = dream
Just walk away
A chance to bare some skin
As usual Linda did it first
NY NY It girl vibes
Or french ingenue for brunettes
Boys will be girls will be boys
immediately goes to the kitchen and get the scissors from the second drawer down
Microbobs and Gucci
Gucci again
... and again
and finally, GUCCI
