Suzy Hutchinson / 08 May 2025 / Categories: People, Actors, Opinions, Advertising, Brand Advertising, Online Advertising

Who Cut Nicole Kidmans Hair For The Met Gala?

Royalty Free image Nicole Kidman Hollywood Star Walk of Fame credit Dreamstime

On Monday evening Nicole Kidman stepped onto the red carpet at the Met Gala held at New York’s iconic landmark the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the world’s press went berserk.

It's an annual charity event that coincides with the opening of the Costume Institute's spring exhibition with the majority of the proceeds going towards the operations of the costume institute which I appreciate is an important self funded museum and historical catalogue and archive. I wrongly assumed until a few years ago all the stars turned out to feed starving children or something equally monumental charitable gravitas, not so.

Good lord. She’d cut all her hair off, those beautiful blonde tresses not easy to grow at 57 were gone replaced by dark roots and a boys pixie cut, chopped into the neck with precision. I have to say I shuddered. All she had left was a bit of a sweeping fringe. The interesting thing for me, from the side she kinda looks like it’s tied back in a pony tail as it was super sleeked back which made me wonder what made her do it?

Did they have to pin her down, drug her, a moment of temporary insanity or a marketing machine that made her doubt her own power.

The man responsible is Adir Abergal celebrity hairstylist and Angelino native who grew up close to Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. The press went absolutely crazy. Every magazine featured the new do immediately from Vogue, In Style, Cosmopolitan, Elle, every blogger, Vlogger, and within hours Nicole’s hair was definitely the story of the night, ironically over shadowing the point, the vintage creation from Balenciaga chosen to showcase this years theme of Pinstripes and Tailoring. “Superfine, Tailoring Black Style”

The chop certainly caused a massive stir and debate, job done for Adir Abergal from Balenciaga’s super high profile ambassador who have not disclosed how much the deal from 2023 was worth.

In our house the discussions were very different than the oooos and ahhhhhs put out in the media. Blah, blah, blah. Isn’t she lovely, isn’t she wonderful.

Do you think she had a choice? How did they talk her into it?

Someone said “Keith Urban won’t be very happy.”

Someone else said “neither will she when she wakes up on Tuesday morning with no hair.”

Someone else said “she’s been blindsided, she didn’t need to do that to get the world’s media on her, she can do that all on her own, why do you think Balenciaga is paying the big bucks in the first place”

Some in the media suggested it might just be a clever wig. I thought oh I hope so when I read it and she’s got the last laugh. No such luck for Nicole.

Take it from someone who knows. All she’s got to face now is the grow out, a long and painful process anyone who has made the same mistake, going from long to super short in one shocking go will know, me included.

I love Nicole Kidman, I am a massive fan. I think she is possibly the most talented actress of our time, I just watched her in Nine Perfect Strangers where despite the star studded ensemble cast it is Nicole’s character, Marsha and her performance you remember like so many of her films.

Me, I don’t agree with the press or the critics, I thought the short do made her look old, and although her face is wrinkle free the cut exposed her age 57 years young by revealing upper arms, a neck and a back that can’t maintain the magic of the movies.

She was exposed and the slew of horrible comments online from the public said as much. It was a field day for the tabloids, with everyone chiming in with their opinion including me.

The reason I felt so compelled to share my thoughts on this is because I felt she had been bamboozled maybe a little to do something she wasn’t entirely sure about or keen to do, for one night. To give up her beautiful hair for the cause, Balenciaga marketing reach, that potentially will never grow back in the same way at her age. I thought about the scene in the Wolf of Wall Street where Leonardi Di Caprio subjects a female trader to her head being shaved in exchange for $10,000 as the floor erupts jeering and cheering at the humiliation.

We don’t know what Nicole Kidman’s contract to Balenciaga is worth and maybe cutting her hair was in it. Certainly in Hollywood there’s no such thing as a free lunch. For me it seems so wrong to make her “earn her keep” when she knows how to shine brighter than anyone anyway.

Of course she might have been the one to say “lets lop it all off” but I cannot see that myself.

Nicole is not a stranger to wearing a wig which I guess is a good thing as she’s going to need one for a while.