APRIL 7, 2016 5:30 PMby MARJON CARLOS|edited by SARAH FISCHER
Jack + G Loopdie gold earring, $44, catbirdnyc.com; Anine Bing gold star earring, $79, aninebing.com
Misplacing an earring is perhaps one of the saddest—and sadly familiar—sagas of fashion. You become attached to a particular pair, and then one day a single dangler goes missing. Lost in a taxi? Swept under a rug? Dog buried it in the back yard? Who knows, but before you go ransacking your house in search of the AWOL piece, consider it a blessing in disguise. As the Fall 2016 runways ofLoewe, Simone Rocha, and Proenza Schouler proved, mixing your mismatched earrings has never been chicer.
Rather than appearing like you got dressed in the dark, when done right, the offbeat imbalance gives off a perfectly cool “so wrong it must be right” vibe. Try the cheeky Anissa Kermiche stud with MPNT’s M32 Baali drop rose gold earring for a fun play on sculpture and tone. Combine naughty and nice elements with Venus by Maria Tash’s spiked earring and Line&Jo’s Miss Evita refined hoops. Mix metals with Ara Vartanian’s white gold dagger dangler and Charlotte Chesnais’s whirl hook silver drop earring for an unexpected sheen. The potential pairings are endless—why wait till fall to get the look?
Above, a veritable mixed bag of styles to try out now.