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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Chloe Mac Donnell

‘I have never felt so popular!’: can I change my look – and my life – with a clip-on fringe?

Chloe with her fake fringe
Chloe has a fake fringe clipped into her hair, at Hadley Yates Studio, Covent Garden. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Guardian

The 70s had “the Fawcett.” In the 90s it was all about “the Rachel.” But now there’s a new era-defining hair cut. “The Claudia.” Yes, the glossy inky-black block fringe that mostly shrouds the face of its owner, the presenter Claudia Winkleman, has become a seminal moment on and off TV screens.

It is a fringe that has spawned memes, online forums dedicated to debating its length and a fan account on X. “Thoughts and opinions from the highest paid fringe on the BBC” reads the bio. Alan Carr has described it, not Winkleman, as a national treasure.

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