Being alive in 2018 and not going big earrings shopping would be like living in New York in the 20s and never going out dancing. Or living above Carnaby Street in the 60s but keeping the curtains drawn and moaning about the racket. Or living through the 00s without spending your entire salary in Topshop. You don’t get to choose what golden age you live in, you just have to join in with what you get. Which right now means wearing awesome earrings while you discuss Netflix in the 40-minute street food queue for your vegan bowl lunch.
The earring game right now is off the hook. In January, Beyoncé wore a pair of earrings to the Grammys with 70 carats of diamonds between them. Statement earrings have been a constant on the catwalk for the past three years, and show no signs of fading from view. In fact, at the collections that just ended, earrings were bigger than ever. An earring that grazes your shoulder is nothing to write home about these days, in a fashion context: Miu Miu’s huge earrings reached to the clavicle, as did the diamante fish-skeletons at Saint Laurent. Most of the 83 looks on the Chanel catwalk came with a mismatch of Chanel-themed, oversized earpieces: a double C in one ear, a multi-drop of pearls from the other.
Earring ambition is no longer limited to being pretty or sparkly. Things have got much more interesting, and the format of two identical modestly sized danglers has been blown apart in the era of the avant-garde earring. You can wear one earring, or six. You can wear a subtle, spot-the-difference mismatch, or a stud in one side and a chandelier in the other. You can choose crawlers that travel up the side of your ear, or back-to-front earrings that have a stud at the front of the lobe and a larger globe behind.
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