Zoey Deutch Debuts a Platinum Pixie Cut That She Helped Chop Herself

She revealed her dramatic hair transformation in Chanel's front row.

Zoey Deutch attends the Chanel show with a platinum blonde pixie cut
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Zoey Deutch is an award-winning actress known for her roles in Everybody Wants Some!!, The Politician, and Set It Up. She's also known for long, flowing brown hair, which she's worn in a chocolate shade since early 2023. But times have changed, and Deutch's style is dramatically transforming with it: The star closed Paris Fashion Week by chopping off nearly all of her hair into a blunt pixie cut and dyeing it platinum blonde.

At Chanel's Fall/Winter 2024 fashion show yesterday, Deutch arrived in a belted tweed jacket set with a pink camellia brooch and a pair of black slingback heels. As classically Chanel as her outfit was, all eyes went straight to her cropped blonde hair—which had been brunette just weeks ago at another red carpet event.

Zoey Deutch arrives at the Chanel fashion show in a tweed jacket and a blonde haircut

Deutch arrived at Chanel with her noticeably cropped hair on display.

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Zoey Deutch before she dyed her hair blonde

Earlier this year, Deutch was still wearing her signature brown hair.

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Deutch marked the dramatic transformation with a series of Instagram posts garnering thousands of likes. In a video, hairstylist Tracey Cunningham revealed that the chop is for an upcoming film—and that the actress helped create the style, taking a set of scissors and chopping away at her own hair.

"@zoeydeutch major transformation for her next movie! They wanted her to look like Jean Seberg," Cunningham wrote. "We didn’t want to look like a current 2024 bleach and tone." To achieve the look, the stylist left Deutch's hair slightly dark at the root.

Deutch looked delighted as she removed inches from her signature look and as Cunningham embarked on the laborious process of bleaching her once-dark strands. In a separate post, Deutch credited Redken for the color transformation, adding a hashtag to indicate her partnership with the New York-based haircare brand.

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Deutch is far from alone in chopping and lightening her hair this season. Over the last few months, stars like Carey Mulligan, Lady Gaga, Kate Beckinsale, Julianne Hough, and Chrissy Teigen have all opted for short blonde styles contrasting the long, often dark hair they're known for.

Lighter, shorter hair is typically associated with summer, but this celebrity trend channels a collective winter yearning for warmer weather. Perhaps spring is just around the corner after all.

Gabrielle Ulubay
Beauty Writer

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Beauty Writer at Marie Claire. She has also written about sexual wellness, politics, culture, and fashion at Marie Claire and at publications including The New York Times, HuffPost Personal, Bustle, Alma, Muskrat Magazine, O'Bheal, and elsewhere. Her personal essay in The New York Times' Modern Love column kickstarted her professional writing career in 2018, and that piece has since been printed in the 2019 revised edition of the Modern Love book. Having studied history, international relations, and film, she has made films on politics and gender equity in addition to writing about cinema for Film Ireland, University College Cork, and on her personal blog, gabrielleulubay.medium.com. Before working with Marie Claire, Gabrielle worked in local government, higher education, and sales, and has resided in four countries and counting. She has worked extensively in the e-commerce and sales spaces since 2020, and spent two years at Drizly, where she developed an expertise in finding the best, highest quality goods and experiences money can buy.

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