A 7-year-old girl was hospitalized after getting her ears pierced at a local Claire’s last month — and her mother says doctors had to dig the earring out of her daughter’s ear with a scalpel. Suzie ...

The ear piercing startup Rowan wants to steal Claire’s crown as the go-to destination for your first piercing. It’s starting by taking over the failed store’s mall locations. There’s an ear-piercing ...

Claire's — the ear-piercing, glittery tween mall staple — is once again on the brink of survival. The chain on Wednesday filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in seven years. It is ...

Restructuring proceedings for tween retailer Claire’s devolved into ear-piercing stories, confessions and a fateful wager ...

The ear piercing and accessory store giant Claire's filed for bankruptcy on Monday, though the company said it expects a big expansion in its location rather than closures that have plagued other mall ...

Claire’s Holdings LLC, the retail chain where legions of pre-teens and teenagers got their first piercings and earrings, filed to go public in the U.S. The Illinois-based company in its filing ...

I've had my ears pierced since I was an infant, thanks to my mom. By the time I hit my teens, I wanted a row of piercings halfway up the ear and in the cartilage. I remember seeing the girls in TLC ...

The chain's bankruptcy filing is the second in seven years. Its troubles include unwieldy debt, shoppers' changing habits and new tariff costs. Claire's, the ear-piercing tween mall staple, is ...