Fashion Victim Column: Dannii Minogue’s style is bob on this year
Posted by Administrator on Nov 19, 2009
AS the current series of X Factor prepared to get underway – when was that? January? It certainly feels that long ago – I nailed my colours to the mast on the whole Cheryl/Dannii debate and predicted that regardless of which wannabe gets the recording contract, this series would belong to Ms Minogue.
After being painted as the pantomime baddy last year following the arrival of the younger, fresher, Saint Cheryl, I said that this year Dannii would take no prisoners on the fashion front.
That was back in June. Almost six months on and X Factor is in danger of becoming more about the style than the singing… and in the case of John and Edward, the so-bad-they-are-good finalists, it’s not even about that.
Forget finding out who is in the bottom two, the real money shot of the show is the moment when the stage doors roll back, the Omen soundtrack starts blasting out and we get our first glimpse of Cheryl’s frock… and Dannii’s hair.
Because while Cheryl’s may have got “its moooohhhjooo back” (is that not the most cringeworthy L’Oreal advert since Jennifer Aniston told us to “concentrate” on the science?) Dannii’s hair has become the standout star of the show.
Flapper bob, victory roll, rockabilly quiff, ponytail, perm, forties wave, crimped – the 37-year-old’s natural hair may barely reach her chin but her stylists have managed to twist and turn it into more ‘dos’ than you can shake a hot curling iron at.
There must be more hairpieces backstage than in Rupaul’s dressing room and – one would hope with all that Elnette – no naked flames.
If the aim was to detract attention from Mrs Cole (come on, of course it was) then Dannii has succeeded and not only on the follicle front.
While Cheryl has been so desperate to be “fashion” she has made some hideous mistakes – like wearing a scrapyard on her chest on Halloween and robbing Janet Jackson’s Control look wholesale for her single launch – Dannii has wafted into the studio each week looking like some Hollywood movie goddess.
Okay she did come a bit unstuck on Sunday in that kaftan (maybe she came straight from the beach?) but generally she has been glamour incarnate.
And the nation is beginning to notice, only a week ago she was named the Ultimate TV Personality 2009 by Cosmopolitan magazine and the positive column inches are rapidly starting to rack up.
It is safe to say that after a tough run last year, the X Factor tide is definitely starting to turn for Dannii.
Here’s hoping the goodwill is as long-lasting as her hairspray.
