Last month, Chanel announced Jacob Elordi as the new face of Bleu de Chanel with a moody portrait that showcased the slim flirty hoop latched onto the Australian actor’s lobe. Like his dreamy Saltburn character Felix, who sports piercings on his ear and eyebrow, Elordi’s earring is a little wink that injects some potent swagger into his public image. (The accessory also adds some latent credibility to his prestige-acting chops—in his 2023 GQ cover story, Elordi said that he pierced his ears because Daniel Day-Lewis did.) There was a similar fervor around Paul Mescal’s snug hoop in last year’s Hamnet, in which the actor portrays (reportedly bi) William Shakespeare—who, according to costume designer Malgosia Turzanska, was believed to don a hoop in his day. Reporting about the Hamnet hoop in January, The Guardian cited one fan who was “begging my boyfriend to get a tiny hoop earring” after seeing the film. (Mescal incited a similar accessory-based thirst with his breakout role in Normal People, which had fans clamoring for their own version of his character …