When a TikTok recently went viral of Dakota Fanning’s clip-on earring falling off in the middle of a red carpet interview, I felt seen. Without missing a beat, Fanning bends over to pick up the stunning Irene Neuwirth oval pear drop set with rainbow moonstones and clips it back onto her right lobe.
As a woman with no piercings, I haven’t often seen myself reflected in the world. I’m a fashion editor and writer, and a full earscape complete with helix, conch, and multiple lobe piercings is the norm among my colleagues. Anecdotally, it seems like the majority of women I see on the street here in New York City have some type of piercing (84 percent of women in the United States do, according to a report by Statista, a data gathering platform).
