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Nerdy By Nature – Frankie

Jo — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:30:21 +0000

Thanks to Ellen from In Ghost Colours, I just discovered that the March/April issue of Frankie Magazine has an editorial featuring glasses.

It’s called Nerdy By Nature and contains a tonne of cute:

I’m off to buy the magazine during my lunch break so I can get frame details and I suggest you do the same – Frankie is always full of loveliness.

Adorable Fifi Lapin tank

Jo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:42:10 +0000

Fifi Lapin tank from Heritage 1981

You all know I’m a sucker for anything glasses-related featuring bunnies, right?

There are other Fifi Lapin shirts available from PacSun, too..

Here’s other glasses + rabbit stuff I’ve featured before:

Bunnies in glasses (with more Fifi Lapin)
Wayfarers Colorize (one of my first posts!)
Peter Jensen
And there’s a bunny in it

SUPER ‘Lucia’ sunglasses

Jo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:59:22 +0000

I want the new (Northern Hemisphere spring 2010) Lucia sunglasses from SUPER very badly and can’t decide between these three colours.

Celebrities fronting for Barton Perreira, Oliver Peoples and Tom Ford

Jo — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:55:05 +0000

I usually cringe at celebrities shilling stuff, but here are three examples of how well it can be done.

Barton Perreira’s 2010 range has a video featuring Giovanni Ribisi:

…and Oliver Peoples have Shirley Manson and Elijah Wood in a short film advertisement entitled ‘Les enfants sennuient le Dimanche’ (The children are bored on Sundays):

By now you’ve probably also seen Tom Ford’s latest advertisements with Nicholas Hoult (from one of my favourite TV shows, Skins) and model, Carolyn Murphy:

RVS by V

Jo — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:02:49 +0000

Noah

Vidal Erkohen, founder of RVS by V makes the kind of eyewear I love. The colours are vibrant and the shapes are bold.

Naomi

Aviva – foldable!

Maya

If you’re in New York, you can buy them at the wonderful Silver Lining Opticians.
Edit: Also available at ♥Gogosha Optique in LA .

Cheaper glasses

Jo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:15:05 +0000

Zoff

It’s becoming so easy to find cheap prescription glasses. This used to be something that I thought was just confined to the web, but it looks like it’s starting to creep into the brick-and-mortar side of things, too:

Lisa Katayama – TOKYOMANGO writes:

“Last time I was in Tokyo, I spent a couple hundred bucks on a really nice pair of glasses at a boutique shop in Harajuku. A few months later, my puppy Malcolm chewed them to bits — to be exact, he cracked one of the lenses and gnawed on the earhooks. So when I came back to Tokyo this time, I went back to the store to see if they could either fix them or order me another pair. But the store was gone. “That store went out of business,” a neighborhood cop told me. “They couldn’t compete, the rent was too high and they weren’t making enough money.”

You know what I think happened? Zoff happened. I’m not sure exactly when the first Zoff glasses store was launched, but on my last few trips back I have noticed that they are now everywhere. ”

read more on TOKYOMANGO

While it’s convenient for people to buy cute but inexpensive eyewear, it’s sad to read that the small boutique went out of business.

Despite being a budget brand, the Zoff site has a great street style section. I haven’t been able to determine whether it’s posed or scouted, but it almost doesn’t matter. I really want to go to Japan.

From Zoff

Do you have stores offering similar deals in the country you live in?
UK chain SpecSavers are now in New Zealand and have a continuous ‘two pairs for $199′ kind of deal. Eyewear giant Luxottica (who own OPSM in NZ and Australia) have started to roll out their Budget Eyewear chain here, too.

On the web side of things, late last year, SelectSpecs sent me a couple of $8US pairs of glasses of my choosing for free, which was really kind of them. I’ve bought a couple of pairs from them in the past, too.

Anyway, one of the pairs they sent, Sinola by Savannah, I wear at least once a week. They’re a great shape that go with a lot of the darker clothes in my wardrobe.

I was recently caught wearing them at a wedding:

And the other pair, Aloe by Savannah, I haven’t worn once, apart from trying them on.
I don’t think the dark red suits me:

Les Pieces Uniques

Jo — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:22:45 +0000

I’d like to wear these glasses, by Italian eyewear company, Les Pieces Uniques:

Max 02 by Les Pieces Uniques

If I wore these, I may as well have a whole outfit to go with them, so I made a Polyvore set to go with the glasses:

Items in this set:
MELISSA Numa in Black at Revolve Clothing – Free Shipping!, $64
collection : complexgeometries
Stolen Girlfriends Club
Les Pieces Uniques

Henrik Vibskov glasses on the runway – Menswear A/W 10-11

Jo — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:10:08 +0000

Henrik Vibskov, image from Dazed Digital

At Henrik Vibskov’s menswear show in Paris last week, he sent models down the runway in unusual clown-eye sunglasses.

Via Dazed Digital.

More pictures at Homactu.

Cheap Monday’s Clairvoyant optical collection

Jo — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:46:09 +0000

Cheap Monday’s website for their Clairvoyant optical collection will have you hunting through the junk draw for those 3D glasses you shoved in years ago. I couldn’t find mine, but not to fear – there’s a 2D view, as well.

Histoire L’Oeil

I’m really fond of the above green frames.

Ways of Seeing

Cheap Monday do exactly what the name implies, that is, sell affordable clothes and accessories, so you should be able to pick these frames up for a very reasonable price!

More Cheap Monday on Eye Heart Glasses

House of Holland x Linda Farrow sunglasses

Jo — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:42:07 +0000

I hope you’re all enjoying the holidays. I am being particularly lazy and I’ve eaten all the amazing chocolate cashew-cream vegan truffles that mum made for me. Terrible!

I quite like the new House of Holland and Linda Farrow sunglasses collaboration, but I don’t fancy my chances at getting them with my prescription!

“They worked exclusively with plexiglass on the sunglasses, and the frame and lenses are united into one piece. The sunglasses come in two colorways and are now available from colette.” – High Snobiety

Via High Snobiety