Tom Ford spring summer 2011 campaign

Tom Ford AW2010 glasses - what a carrion...

Tom Ford's AW2010 campaign images opt for a murder of crows rather than naked models. Well, I suppose it is autumn. These big black glasses are terrific. The bigger the better I say...

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:

10

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...







8
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...

Darcel goes all Tom Ford with a single eyeglass

I did a post a while back about how monocles could never be cool.

I take it back if you're one-eyed...

This is Darcel. More info and pics at Eye Heart Glasses...

Tom Ford sunglasses: the shades worn by Nicholas Hoult and Carolyn Murphy

Tom Ford's eye catching adverts have been here before, but I've never gone into detail on the sunglasses.

UK actor Nicholas Hoult, who co-starred in Tom Ford's directorial debut A Single Man, and Carolyn Murphy feature in the ads wearing various frames, the pick of the bunch being Henri (bottom), Nico (below) and Nikita (left). Superb.

IC! Berlin gets naked and noticed at Berlin Fashion Week

I don't mean this to become a theme. Everybody knows that sex sells (Tom Ford Eyewear ads are testament to that).

Imagine my surprise yesterday morning as I settled down with a coffee and a copy of the Metro on a London train when I spotted a picture of a man, kneeling on a runway at Berlin fashion week, completely starkers except for some black tape around his eyes, wrists and body.

"Designer Ralph Ander [sic]... at Berlin Fashion Show..," read the caption. Hold on, I know someone called Ralph Anderl in Berlin, he of spectacle geniuses IC! Berlin, and this chap looks familiar, although the lack of clothes makes it harder to tell (I don't know him that well).

Then I remembered the guys at IC! were up to something... http://wehavenothing.com - a project combining fashion, art and charity - find out about wehavenothing here

And so the clever chaps at IC! Berlin manage to grab the world's attention ("Read the 76 other news articles" said Google News) for the hardest feats in fashion: Promoting glasses on the runway. Look out for Ralph lying down in the buff, oh, and for loads of great new designs...

Tom Ford 2010 eyewear ad campaign - nude hairdressing

In September I posted about the nudity in Tom Ford eyewear campaign and here's a little more.

Not your average hairdresser.

While on the Tom Ford topic, does anyone know who  Colin Firth's glasses are by in Ford's film A Single Man?

*Update* More detail on this campaign and the 2010 Tom Ford sunglasses collection through here.

Who makes Colin Firth's glasses in A Single Man?

All I know is that Colin Firth's glasses in Tom Ford's A Single Man, are not Tom Ford Eyewear. Sunglasses Onstage suggests they're mid-20th-century vintage and I'd agree as the closest I've seen to these were in the top-notch quality vintage drawers at the Eye Company in Soho, London. It certainly provides spectacles for TV and film, so possibly?

But then Barton Perreira do something extremely similar with the Preston (right).

When I see the film, I will be the one disappointed at the end. I'll hang around to read all the credits, only to find the "Eyewear: " line non-existent. Seen it already? Let  me know if you know more.

UPDATE 28 Dec 2010

Well we got there in the end folks: the answer is a pair of Nalco #44 vintage 1960s frames like these right.

If you're dead quick you can buy them on eBay here.

I actually got round to watching the film a month ago and have been searching for a bow-tie-shaped rivet detail on a temple ever since. But today the eBay seller left a comment below and solved 2010's Eye Wear Glasses mystery... These are definitely them!

Eye Wear Glasses' top ten posts in 2009

10 la Eyeworks' Reed frames - a classic 1950s eyeglass
9 Sandra Bullock wears Face à Face sunglasses in The Proposal
8 Retro Super Future Flat Top sunglasses at Paris Fashion Week
7 Oliver Peoples glasses suit anybody - and here's the proof
6 More Cutler and Gross - latest 2010 styles
5 Tom Ford Eyewear - bold, black bins, breasts and bums
4 Paul Smith glasses - great acetates, made in Japan
3 Oliver Peoples 2010 ads featuring Elijah Wood and Shirley Manson
2 Is La Roux's Elly Jackson a new eyewear icon?
1 Cutler and Gross frames - classic, black specs

Tom Ford Eyewear - bold, black bins, breasts and bums

These are the Tom Ford Eyewear 09/10 advertising images of Jon Kortajarena and Anna Maria Jagodzinska - photographed by Tom Ford himself.

Oliver Goldsmith's "Goggles" - Fashion, right on the nose

You don't need to be Gok Wan to know that a lot of today's glasses are positively influenced by retro fashion, including the 1980s (Come back soon when I link Tom Ford's sunglass collection with Coronation Street's Deirdre Barlow).

Until then, enjoy this from 1981. More on Oliver Goldsmith soon - still some of the best sunglasses in the world:

"Fashion - right on the nose" - genius.