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Ms Ardern wore a fitted ivory dress by designer Juliette Hogan - who is reportedly a close friend of the ex-PM - and a long veil clipped onto a chignon up-do hairstyle.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

Her blond hair was usually ironed straight or pulled back into a messy chignon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

“Behind the undone chignon, the back of Donald Trump is covered in white lank,” the machine wrote.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

But also, because Alexia has a chignon constantly — that's where she puts her pick.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2021

And the woman wore her hair just as Miss Mortimer did, in a pretty chignon at the base of her neck.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

The rest of society is a blend of every skin tone and ethnicity: neoclassical ringlets and jewel-adorned chignons mingle with powdered Afros and flowing dreadlocks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2020

The crowd, featuring cummerbunds and chignons, sang along to Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road,” and swayed as the singer Joss Stone performed barefoot on stage.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2015

It’s always refreshing to see texture on the red carpet, and artfully mussed hair was everywhere—appearing in messy chignons and windswept waves alike.

From Forbes ● Aug. 26, 2014

The herd that gathered in the 19th arrondissement were as elegant as their surroundings, all tailored jackets, chignons and pointed leather boots.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012

They wore jewelry made of shell and swans’-down earrings and chignons spiked with eagle feathers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann