The Secret to Pulling Off Summer s Single Earring Is an Easy Chignon

At the Valentino couture show in Paris yesterday, Emma Watson masterfully juxtaposed hard and soft elements to create a stunning, fifties-by-way-of-eighties collision of styles. In the same way that her biker jacket cut the sweetness of her feminine lace crop top, her loose, finger-combed chignon took the edge off her slightly punkish (if pearl-tipped) single-drop Delfina Delettrez earring. The effect was equal parts romance and rebellion—proving that the secret to successful styling, like everything in life, is balance.