Bonjour Bob! Behind Sofia Richie Grainge's Ultimate French Girl Chop
Quelle surprise! Richie Grainge has a bob. A 'French bob,' as she wrote underneath its reveal on her Instagram. The carousel post showed said bob-in-progress, by London-based hairstylist George Curran, and a series of more selfies and shots in her sunny holiday setting. Known for her signature long blonde hair, as well as a penchant for a clean girl, slicked back bun, the new hairstyle keeps her middle part and hits at chin length. The bob shape accentuates the dimensions of dark and lighter pieces of blonde to create some dynamic movement—perfect for moving leisurely in the French Riviera winds.
Photo: Instagram (@sofiagrainge)
'Sofia's hair was at the stage where it needed a bit of a revamp,' Curran tells Vogue, noting Richie Grainge's hair history of up-dos; looks that have come to define the clean girl aesthetic which she's been a driving force of. 'She was nervous, but super excited,' he adds. It's a decision, Curran says, that Richie Grainge had been thinking about for a few weeks. 'Sofia had chopped a bit off before—she had cut off about five inches already—but she wanted the full refresh.'
She explained her own thinking in a TikTok that documented the bob du jour. 'I did one too many Keratin treatments on my hair, and I've just been cutting at it and cutting at it, hoping I could get this 'dead' away…and it's just not going away,' she said to camera. 'I know what I have to do to make this hair healthy again, and it's to start over—so we're cutting a bob.'
The nerves were palpable—doing what we all do before a big chop, she decided for a moment that it looked pretty good as is. Still, she soldiered on with Team Bob. 'It's a great look for 27, we're starting fresh,' she reassured herself. In bed the night before the haircut, she added: 'I've decided I want a bob. Like a real [gestures to her chin length]. It's gotta go—it's fried.'
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
New York Times
2 hours ago
- New York Times
The Chatbot Updated. Users Lost a Friend.
Markus Schmidt, a 48-year-old composer living in Paris, started using ChatGPT for the first time in July. He gave the chatbot pictures of flowers and had it identify them. He asked it questions about the history of his German hometown. Soon, he was talking to the chatbot about traumas from his youth. And then, without warning, ChatGPT changed. Just over a week ago, he started a session talking about his childhood, expecting the chatbot to open up a longer discussion as it had in the past. But it didn't. 'It's like, 'OK, here's your problem, here's the solution, thank you, goodbye,' Mr. Schmidt said. On Aug. 7, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released a new version of its chatbot, called GPT-5. This version, the company said, would allow for deeper reasoning, while 'minimizing sycophancy' — the chatbot's tendency to be overly agreeable. Users weren't having it. People immediately found its responses to be less warm and effusive than GPT-4o, OpenAI's primary chatbot before the update. On social media, people were especially angry that the company had cut off access to the previous chatbot versions to streamline its offerings. 'BRING BACK 4o,' a user named very_curious_writer wrote in a Q&A forum that OpenAI hosted on Reddit. 'GPT-5 is wearing the skin of my dead friend.' Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, replied saying, 'What an…evocative image,' before adding that 'ok we hear you on 4o, working on something now.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Vogue
3 hours ago
- Vogue
Cult Gaia Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
As a certified LA It-girl, Cult Gaia's Jasmine Larian Hekmat knows what young women want in their clothes—they want to feel sexy and cool. They flock to her label because the designer is so good at finding the balance between force and femininity in her collections. Every season, Hekmat goes to Paris for market. As she walked around the city taking in all the art and especially the sculptures, her fall collection began to come to life. She noticed that 'the female sculptures are always stopped in movement,' and decided to 'dig into that concept.' Bags like her 'boob' clutch look like they're chiseled out of stone, while the hero print of the season, a rich brown and yellow floral print named 'Alice,' looks like it's blurred in movement. But the collection's standouts were its simplest pieces, where Hekmat's keen eye for detail becomes evident; like the leather jacket with built-in magnets at the collar so that it can be adapted from a classic zip-up to a biker style. 'You know I grew up in a world of unboxing,' she said. 'I want my customers to always be unpacking the products. I want my girl to always feel like every time she wears my stuff, she experiences that joy.'
Associated Press
4 hours ago
- Associated Press
Book Review: 'High Season' is a twisty thriller about the murder of a teenage girl in paradise
Kate Bishop finds heart and poignancy at the center of her artfully crafted thriller, 'High Season,' setting it apart from other by-the-numbers beach reads. At the center of the story is Nina Drayton, who, 20 years ago at age 5, was the sole witness to the murder of her sister, Tamara, by Josie Jackson, the daughter of their family's summer housekeeper and her childhood babysitter. Nina was brought up to believe that her account of that wine-soaked night at her mother's French villa was the reason Josie was put away and justice served. After the case faces renewed interest from a true crime influencer, Nina begins to suspect that her story was faulty. At the same time, Josie returns to the scene of the crime searching for answers. 'High Season' has many moving parts — two timelines, five viewpoints in total — and it also manages to serve as an exploration of our true crime obsession. Bishop acknowledges the double-edged sword of armchair detecting: the interest brings attention to forgotten cases but also makes it impossible for anyone to move on from it under renewed scrutiny. The promise of justice is thinner than the promise of entertainment and gossip about a cast of suspects and victims, most of whom will never meet. The POV shifts feel natural rather than jarring, jagged pieces of a story. Bishop knows when it makes sense to see the world through one character, and then, in the next chapter, add a piece of the puzzle from a different character. It serves as a reminder that everyone has their own story of what they believed happened the night of the murder and their reasons for hiding their suspicions for 20 years. The most poignant parts of the novel are told by Tamara herself — Bishop could have easily made her victim another 'poor little rich girl' by just having other people's memories and judgements of her serve as her narrative. By giving Tamara her part of the story and making her a fleshed-out character, we feel the grief that comes with her death and the hole it's made for so many people. The novel also does a good job exploring how the glittering glamor of the Drayton family is out of reach for the working-class teenage girls in town, and the lengths they will go to try to fit in (or not) with the shiny elite. Josie's teenage best friend, Hannah, has a crucial arc about the dangers of trying to shape yourself into someone else's world at any cost. The treatment Hannah receives at the hands of Blake, Nina's older brother, is chilling and an accurate depiction of how some men treat women they feel are beneath them. The weak part of the novel is the climax of the truth coming out. It felt like an artificial set-up for a story that otherwise flowed along on the merits of Bishop's lyrical writing and the tense atmosphere she created. What might have been cathartic felt too much like spectacle and deprived the reader of the emotion and suspense of the rest of the book. That being said, 'High Season' was a memorable read, reminiscent of 'Dare Me' by Megan Abbott and Gillian Flynn's 'Sharp Objects.' ___ AP book reviews:
