Elected this Saturday, December 16, 2023 as the next Miss France 2024, Eve Gilles, Miss Nord–Pas-de-Calais, stood out from her competitors for a very specific reason. The young woman sports a short haircut that we rarely see in the world of misses. Indeed, in 1999, a candidate had already tried her luck!
The election of Miss France 2024, Ève Gilles, representative of Nord–Pas-de-Calais in 2023, is an opportunity to wonder if short hair in the Miss France competition is an asset today when there is some years they were clearly not one. Aged 20 and a second year student of a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science Applied to Human and Social Sciences, the pretty Eve Gilles is getting a lot of attention because of her uniqueness: her short haircut.
If from the presentation of the thirty contenders for the title, the Dunkerque of Reunion origins made people talk about her, she has never hidden it, her short haircut she embraces! “ I decided to cut my hair on a whim, for myself and not to be a miss.» declared the young woman to TV magazinebefore adding “It brought something out of me (…) and made me seem more like a strong woman. This is what I want to show“. Even if our new beauty queen indulged in saying that she was “the first woman to run for Miss France with short hair“, the fact remains that this is not really the case! Indeed, in 1999, a young woman named Karine Lherm, Miss Albigeois, had already presented herself with this famous cut.
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However, on the 1 p.m. set the day after her coronation, Ève Gilles still wanted to calm things down: “Yes, it’s a bit different from the Misses we knew before. But I don’t want to be known as “the Miss with Short Hair”“. Let the beautiful Dunkirk woman rest assured, she is not the only miss to have tried the short haircut! Karine Lherm, Miss Albigeois in 1999, is remembered forTV Mag: “I don’t know how short hair is perceived today within the Miss France organization, but in my time, they didn’t really like it“. In fact, the young woman had not even passed the selection of the twelve finalists.
Finding the new Miss France 2024 “very pretty», Miss Albigeois 1999 remembers an anecdote during the competition at her time: “Geneviève de Fontenay made a thought to me. When I was elected Miss Albigensian, I was even bleached a platinum blonde. As soon as I was elected, I was immediately told that I had to let my hair grow. During the ceremony, the hairdressers reproached me because they couldn’t get anything done.» Fortunately since then mentalities have changed since the pretty Eve Gilles was elected to represent France in 2024 and has often been cited among Internet users’ favorite candidates.
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