Categories: Fine Jewelry Design

Front/Back Earrings Are Moving Front and Center

This past week, jewelry previews to the New York press continued, and one thing I can now safely tell you is that fall-into-spring collections are pointing to many more new front/back earrings.

Lorraine DePasque
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Contributing writer for INSTORE and INDESIGN.

his past week, jewelry previews to the New York press continued, and one thing I can now safely tell you is that fall-into-spring collections are pointing to many more new front/back earrings.

Obviously, a question is: Will they be “trend” or “new classics”? Frankly, at this moment, it’s hard to say, but I’m putting them in the same category as inside/outside diamond hoops. In other words, they’ve got a trendy, fresh vibe, yet, because they look good from different angles, I can see their potential of joining fine jewelry’s “new classics” — much like the huggies.

One thing that especially makes me full of anticipation about these earrings — also being referred to as 360s, double-sided, and front-and-backs — is the potential of pearl pairs and singles. Without being contrived, front/back pearl earrings further take June’s birthstone into the “not-your-grandmother’s-pearls” genre. Two cases in point: a black pearl in front and a gold pearl in back, or a cultured pearl in front and a keshi hanging thread-like down the back.

And make no mistake: Millennials and Gen Ys have already noticed. (Of course, Rihanna, often seen in her Dior front/back pearls, doesn’t hurt the cause either.)

Given the stepped-up number of double-sided designs that stores should be carrying (as many of their vendors continue to create them), it seems natural to me that even more twenty- and thirty-somethings will notice. Do I think that, this time next year, it’ll seem like double vision? Honestly, no, I don’t really suspect front/backs will be twice as hot as now. Nonetheless, they’ll surely be something you want to sell—if your aim is to project a mood of modernity and style.

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Lorraine DePasque

Lorraine DePasque is a contributing writer for INSTORE and INDESIGN. She is also a freelance journalist who has covered the fine jewelry industry for more than two decades. Having seen thousands of collections, met thousands of artisans, schlepped through hundreds of trade shows, judged hundreds of design competitions, and writtten several thousand jewelry articles, she has one simple request: “Please don’t tell me something is innovative when it isn’t.”