Keira Knightley Debuts a Razored Bob at the 2025 Golden Globes

Watch out 2025, the bob haircut is still going strong! And Keira Knightley is on team crop. The actor first chopped her hair in December, going for a conservative lob length—the perfect way to ease yourself into the trend.

But for the 82nd Golden Globes red carpet, Knightley went even shorter. In the vernacular world of bobs—the Italian bob, the French bob, the Baroque bob—Knightley’s haircut is of the straight razor cut variety. She stayed loyal to her middle parting, with a new length that hits just shy of her clavicle, blowdried to sleekly round in. The chestnut brunette color is rippled with golden, face-framing highlights. She kept her makeup super romantic and clean, with a light, smoked-out brown and pink eye, gentle contouring, and a rose pink lip.

The star of Netflix thriller Black Doves complemented her lacquered new hair with a sumptuously textured custom Chanel gown—one that, as her stylist Leith Clark told British Vogue, took 300 hours to make. The dress features a lacquered jersey skirt and bodice embroidered with 23,000 crystals, rhinestones, and sequins, with a silk pleated peplum, and feathers blooming from the bust. Her short hair showed off her Lion Solaire de Chanel earrings in 18K white gold and diamonds, representing her character’s “strength and roar.”

Knightley has remained quite relaxed with her hair through the years. When she first broke through as an actress and through her Pride & Prejudice and Atonement eras, her hair was a bohemian length, unfussy, and texture in line with the Indie Sleaze era. Through the early and mid-2010s, she kept her hair a long, romantic length worn in waves, keeping the soft, gothic glamor with smudged smokey eyes. When she dared with a red lip, she would slick her hair back in chic chignons. She’s not opposed to hair accessories either, leaning on Chanel for bejeweled hair clips and Alice bands. In recent years, she’s evolved into chicer lengths and subtle layers.

Big chops were represented all over the Golden Globes red carpet: Emma Stone debuted her Rosemary’s Baby-esque pixie cut, while Zendaya and Selena Gomez opted for chin-skimming, old Hollywood pin curls and waves. On the opposite end of the length spectrum, Nicole Kidman and Margaret Qualley went big on the bouffants. But still, the bob persists.