Chanel 2012 eyewear ad campaign with Linda Evangelista

Guess who these are by! Good colours. Modelled by Linda Evangelista for Chanel's summer 2012 ad campaign.

Cutler & Gross 2012 sunglasses: starry eyed surprise

Ordinarily, anyone suggesting to make a pair of sunglasses that are star-shaped on the outside and circular on the inside, might be laughed out of a design studio. But Cutler and Gross is hugely capable and its signature piece for the summer is simply out of this world.

Have a look at the Cutler and Gross Magazine for much much more...

Prada SS2012 classic American car-inspired sunglasses

EWG has long held up Prada as the most exciting designer brand on the eyewear scene and 2012 has demonstrated once again that it can create something exciting every season. Along with the rest of its SS2012 collection, classic American cars provide a dominant influence on the designs...

Kuboraum Masks - chunky shades and glasses designed in Berlin

Berlin has a good track record in amazing eyewear brands so when I heard about Kuboraum – literally Cubic Room – I knew it'd probably be impressive. And it is – hoorah! The 'masks' in collection K001 are chunky, bold, black frames, designed in Berlin and handmade in Italy.

"Kuboraum are cubical rooms where we shelter ourselves, free to live our intimacy and look at the world through two lenses," say the designers, and I get what they mean. For a new brand, it already seems to have a good distribution - available in Europe and beyond

Oliver Goldsmith bespoke sunglasses - handmade in England

Here's a little video from Oliver Goldsmith showing what goes into making a bespoke pair of sunglasses. These little beauties are handmade in England...

And above that, the pyramid shades we've raved about here before, which once featured in the late Vidal Sassoon's 1960s ad campaign and currently feature at the top of Eye Wear Glasses' Facebook page. Feel free to like us there!

Standing warm against the cold: Skylark wood-stone glasses from Rolf

I really do get excited about these glasses. I tried on a pair of Rolf's wooden specs with a stone finish in Paris last year and they really are incredibly comfortable: the wood makes them so light and then the stone has this dramatic cooling effect on your face. An incomparable piece of eyewear.

This is Skylark 41, winner of the Red Dot design award for 2012. Congrats to Rolf Spectacles...

Long luscious sunglashes from Tatty Devine

Welcome astonishingly cool London jewellery brand Tatty Devine to the wonderful world of eyewear. Good, eh?

A simple idea, beautifully executed.

The glasses are £126.

Necklace £36.

Handmade.

Andy Wolf: The Rosenthal Legacy (featuring handmade Austrian eyewear)

Pictures from Andy Wolf latest collection soon but for now here's a video of The Rosenthal Legacy, a film featuring, as you might expect, plenty of good-quality handmade eyewear from Austria.

More Cazals make a comeback: 616, 905 and 906

I like Cazal. It's such a cool brand that the German eyewear giant doesn't need to crow about who's wearing its products. So when it relaunches more original models from the 1980s, as it has this month, it doesn't mention that these are the sunglasses worn by everyone from Spike Lee to Jay-Z.

Above is: at the top, Cazal 616; in the middle Cazal 905; and below that, Cazal 906. These frames are part of the Cazal Legends range, remakes of highly sought after originals from the 1980s.

Paul Frank Eyewear for Summer 2012

 

 

 

As always, Paul Frank Optometrics showing how fun glasses can be...