Histoire de Voir: from studded sunglasses to stylish sophistication

Stephane Sarnin has been making leather eyewear by hand in Paris for 15 years.

Histoire de Voir has since inspired numerous other collections to bring leather into the glasses making mix.

And as he demonstrates with these five frames, the resulting look can range from smart and sophisticated (left) to rock chick (top).

Find Histoir de Voir in your opticians, and you know you've found an optician worthy of your custom.

Christian Roth aviators - a different take on a classic look

I've failed thus far to find an even close answer to Mike_1992's tweet wanting to know who these aviators are by, but my quest remains and we (me and my slowly developing spectacle blogging community) will soon come up with a half decent answer. One day.

The pic in question is from the 1970s or 80s, a period when, growing up, to be frank, I knew not my Histoire du Voirs from my Julbo. Even now I admit my knowledge of vintage bins is a tad patchy.

So, the best I can do - and it don't come much better - is a little Christian Roth... More of whom I shall write about soon. Until then, here is model 14032, an aviator sunglass with a difference, or two.