Cutler and Gross spectacles - on the street in Covent Garden

Another great style from Cutler & Gross - am loving the colour. Great choice...

Happy New Year to everyone...

Blue Ray-Ban Wayfarers with matching hood - sales shopping on Oxford Street

Six months on, my first streetstyle picture. This guy happily let me photo him in his blue Ray-Ban Wayfarer RB5121 glasses. It's great to see people colour co-ordinating their specs.

Linda Farrow and House of Holland Plexiglass sunglasses

An interesting mixture of influence for the spring-summer 2010 collaboration between Linda Farrow and House of Holland... with thanks to Klang on Freshnet

Happy Christmas all... back soon

Thanks for following, visiting, loving, helping, sharing and just generally being good eyewear-admiring folk.

Happy Christmas all - "Happy Holidays" to all those Stateside.

And I leave you with a cheesy Christmas joke:

What do you call a blind reindeer?







No idea.

White sunglasses at a festival

Taken by Laëtitia Soufflet

30 years of iconic Hollywood movies' eyewear

With thanks, SF Optics...

Red graduated lens, blue hat, gorgeous look

With thanks, Staffan Eliasson

Monocles, cool? Yeah, right, and walking canes

Call me Mr Uppity, but this week's reports that monocles might be back in fashion in London are nonsense. I really can't see it myself. With neither eye.

An opticians has perhaps hired a more creative PR firm than before, but monocles will forever remain an eccentricity of Chris Eubank, Sir Patrick Moore, Henry Hatsworth and the like.

And just as Eubank, Lord of the Manor of Brighton's walking cane never really caught on, neither will the monocle.

UK optical chain Vision Express said it would start stocking £50 monocles, in response to an unexpected spate of requests. That may well be so, and perhaps there's an underground monocular movement that Eye Wear Glasses is failing to spot, but I bet they don't sell any, except in some buy-one-get-one-free deal (with free bridge and temples) for fancy dress party-goers.

Nevertheless I did find this picture of Winona Ryder... note the much cooler shades in the background.

Unidentified aviator-shaped eyeglasses in Milan - and a great haircut

I love these glasses (and the hair) but, I must admit, I haven't a clue who makes them. Ideas welcome!

Photo courtesy of Trendycrew.

Vintage square sunglasses by Safilo - from the bottom of a drawer

It's been a while since I've seen vintage shades as good as these. They're by Italian eyewear giant Safilo and Elisa found them in the bottom of a drawer in a shop in her parents' village in Italy.

I think they're 1960s or 70s. I love the bridge and the detail where the temples join the frame.

With big thanks to eli__sa for letting me publish this terrific photograph. Feel free to comment if you have more detail!