The actress tells ‘Marie Claire’ why she’s ready for a short hair summer.
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Elle Fanning, debuting a bouncy, just-below-the-chin-length bob at theCannes Film Festival, is currently in that stage.
“It feels so good.”
Elle Fanning complemented her short bob at Cannes with a vintage Chanel dress, sourced from Shrimpton Couture.
Most people make a hair transformation like Fanning’s exactly when they want to.
(The things we do for art!)
But her next role wouldn’t hold her back from the haircut she always wanted.
Starting production on the Bob Dylan biopicA Complete Unknownalongside Timothee Chalamet this spring, Fanning found a workaround.
“I knew I was wearing a wig in the movie I’m doing now.
So I think I was free to do whatever,” she says.
“I wasn’t held to a character and I thought, let’s do it for summer.”
Elle Fanning is currently filming a Bob Dylan biopic with Timothee Chalamet.
In her short hair era, Fanning has discovered an entirely new outlook on style.
For Cannes, Fanning says the bob enhances a “preppy” side she didn’t know she had.
“One thing informs the other,” Fanning says.
And regardless of how she styles her hair, it’s exactly what she wants.
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