Super Size Me: Flat Top sunglasses go large

RetroSuperFuture has released a new super-sized version of its Super Flat Top sunglasses; available in small (50), regular (55) and now large (57).

Price €115, including Zeiss lenses. Available as optical frames also, at least in the small size...

Horny, horny, horny - three Super sunglasses for SS2011

Anyone feeling markedly materialistic in the run-up to summer should be trying out Super's new "Horn" sunglasses. Exactly what the material is I am not sure, but the price tag starts at a reasonable €120.

Bert in Retro Super Future Gals glasses in Summer Safari

Meet Bert, as I did at last month's Kirk Originals bash.

Bert is wearing Gals by Retro Super Future in Summer Safari - see below for a close-up.

Sorry to all my regulars for the recent low-profile.

Normal service will resume soon...

Retro Super Future limited edition Liberty print Lucia sunglasses for spring/summer 2011

Last year's Libertyprint collaboration with Italian sunglass supremos Retro Super Future was hugely popular and 2011's Lucia sunglasses, in three iconic Liberty prints, will doubtless be blooming marvellous too. What EWG particularly likes is the combination of round lenses with a square frame shape.

Above is Poppy & Daisy, above that is Peacock, and below are 2010's Elysian. These shades, and a couple more, are available from Liberty's Great Marlborough Street store in London or online here.

Super releases 14 shades and frames for a cold, sunny winter

Retro Super Future has launched 14 new styles for Winter 2011 including these three, from the top: Lucia in caramel, People in crystal and Andrea Francis. As you can see, Super, is also starting to sell optical frames as well as sunglasses.

Bold Super Ilaria futuristic retro sunglasses

Retro Super Future has a habit of getting it right. Ilaria, a Super special edition of the Lucia, goes on sale on 20 September, with only 170 available.

Super limited edition Randagio leather sunglasses

After the success of its black leather Flat Top, Super has created the Randagio. The shades will cost 223 EUR and will be produced in a limited quantity of 230 pieces. Randagio will be in selected stores from 5 August with a few available from the Retro Super Future website from 3pm that day (central European time).

Super collaborate with WeSC - superlative sunglasses

Retro Super Future has collaborated with Swedish brand WeSC (WeAreTheSuperlativeConspiracy) to create these great black sunglasses. They come with black mirrored Zeiss lenses, with a spare set of rock-hard "pure black" lenses. Limited edition: 500 pieces.

Great bridge and clever incorporation of the WeSC logo at the hinge.

Four perfect crystal sunglasses for 2010: it's all about the contrast

One year on and another list. This one features four amazing crystal sunglasses for 2010. All in a similar subtle crystal and all getting one thing spot on: the contrast of the lens colour with the shade of the frame.

From top to bottom: L.G.R. for Antonio Marras, Retro Super Future, Juanjo Oliva, and finally Oscar Magnusson...

One year on: Top 10 most-read Eye Wear Glasses posts

Happy birthday to Eye Wear Glasses, which turns one today. We kick off the week with a list of the 10 most-read posts of the past 12 months. They're not necessarily the best that we've featured, and celebrities take more than their fair share of the speccy limelight, but they are what you, collectively, looked at most:

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Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal's wears bespoked Bugatti glasses...
























9

Two celebrity actor/actor-musicians clearly pull in more hits than one celeb chef.

It's Shirley Manson and Elijah Wood in Oliver Peoples' 2010 ad campaign...







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Is La Roux's Elly Jackson a new eyewear icon? Probably, yes, a little.




7

Well at this rate I can't see this list being anything but celebs. Here we have Usher. Wearing Carreras...













6

Phew, people are interested in EWG for the eyewear, not just for random celebs who occasional wear it.

Here is Christina Centenera, who looks like she might be a celeb but is actually a fashion editor, wearing Super Flat Top sunglasses...

Another Super example of the 2010 sunglasses trend

These are Retro Super Future's Super Andrea sunglasses and they're spot on. Crystal is good. Very good.

Super by RetroSuperFuture 2010 sunglasses: W in Safari acetate

 More Retro Super Future sunglasses: these are the W and the translucent acetate finish is Safari...

Super Lucia 2010 shades: rounds lenses and square frames

Combining two key trends of summer 2010, Retro Super Future has created Lucia, which borrows from some standard Super styling of flat tops and square corners in combination with round lenses. And great acetate colours too (more pics)...

Retro Super Future for all the family: Super Kids sunglasses

Retro Super Future shades for children: Super Kids. More pictures here...

Super makes 333 Chocolate sunglasses

Not real chocolate, that would not be good on a hot day. No, Super has teamed up with skateboard brand Chocolate to create these limited editions, in celebration of Chocolate's 15-year anniversary. A total of 333 are available, complete with high-quality Zeiss lenses.

Side protection sunglasses in Antarctica... safety first!

Eye Wear Glasses is a global blog. It is mainly written in London but we have photographic contributions from all over. None however have been as far-flung as this one. Here's JK Keller in Antarctica, impressing the penguins in these smokey prescription shades. I love the two shades of grey and the double bridge.

JK chose these sunglasses from the safety frame range in a small-town optical store and had to beg them to put the prescription sunlenses in them. If you look carefully (click picture to enlarge) you can make out the side protection.

"I lost the glasses a few months later," says JK "Sad, very sad." I could not agree more.

All this was a decade ago so JK was certainly well ahead of his time. EWG applauds you!

Fancy sunglasses with side lenses?

Try Retro Super Future's Sideviews...

See more of JK's Antarctica pictures here. Or visit his cool art/design website. Or click one, click the back button and click the other.

Retro Super Future Flat Top sunglasses now in black leather

Remember my post on RetroSuperFuture Flat Top sunglasses a few weeks ago? Well, I thought they couldn't come much better than those, but they've just been trumped by these Super-limited edition black leather Flat Tops. Only available online from this Thursday to next (3-10 December) at Retro Super Future.

RetroSuperFuture Sideviews sunglasses: Havanna Glitter

More Super sunglasses, this time the Sideview.

Retro Super Future Flat Top sunglasses at Paris Fashion Week

I love this Flat Top design by RetroSuperFuture. It's a couple of years old but these sunglasses perfectly combine the classic styles of the 50s with the modern lines of the 80s - through that flat, straight brow. Almost as good as the Luciano, which I raved about a few weeks ago.

With thanks again to Trendycrew for the great picture of Christine Centenera, fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar Australia, at Paris Fashion Week - visit Trendycrew.com for more.

RetroSuperFuture Luciano sunglasses

Things are gonna get a bit busy as of tomorrow: Silmo (big eyewear show in Paris) begins and everyone release new collections...

This is the best thing I've seen as yet, from RetroSuperFuture - sums the brand's name up really: retro, futuristic, and super (he said in an Enid Blytonesque English accent).