In the Heights

Shorter than ever before, the micro-mini bang is having a moment

- Lynn Yaeger

Like so many things in life, it boils down to a commitment issue. Are you ready to go under the knife—or should we say scissors—daring your hairdresser to chop a fringe high above your eyebrows, quelling the words strangling your throat, the voice that says, It’ll take years to grow these things out! Or do you grit your teeth, shut your eyes, and dream that when you open them you will swing around in the barber’s chair looking like Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina?

Fraught and terrifying as the prospect of cutting shorties might be, the micromini bang is undeniably having a moment. Sometimes they skew edgy and subversive, like Bella Hadid’s spiky and gelled wisps for Marc Jacobs’s latest eyewear campaign, or more classic, like Emily Ratajkowski’s and Olivia Rodrigo’s trompe l’oeil fringe for the Met Gala, a choppy, extra-abbreviated hack that made a radical statement—if only for one night.