Fluo glasses for Gen Y from Theo

These are from Theo's wonderful limited edition Mille series for the braver glasses wearer. Mille means 1000 in French but it's also short for millennials, those young types – Generation Y (Z even?) – who know their way around all things digital. Six more shapes and loads more colours here...

Roger that...

Loving these two new frames from Roger Eye Design... Anywhere stocking these beauties would surely be in contention for our coolest opticians project!

Oliver Goldsmith gets colourful

A sneak preview of some of the new colours becoming available from Oliver Goldsmith...

Mykita makes Mylon for myopes...

...and hyperopes too. Mylon is Mykita's 3D-printed nylon eyewear that has hitherto been limited to big, sporty sunnies. Now Mylon is available in optical frames. From the top: Basky and Pelot, then Pelot on its own, Apollo, and finally Lathan. There are new colours too: British racing green, Imperial purple, and Ocean blue. Available in Mykita stockists. Previous posts on Mylon here...

Thin acetate: Murk from Fleye

A key trend for 2013 is a thinner, subtler use of acetate. Frames have got bigger and often chunkier, but now some designers are using acetate in gentler, understated way as shown above in the frame Murk by Danish eyewear house Fleye. And below from a recent shoot...

Cheap Monday 2013 sunglasses

Cheap Monday must be one of the most inventive lower-cost eyewear brands around as this little preview of its 2013 sunglass collection demonstrates: great shapes, colours and an obvious element of cool, all included.

Factory900 does the slits

Colour and creativity: two things Factory900 always brings to Eye Wear Glasses (as well as a smile!). This is FA-086 Slit II, handmade in Japan.

Mykita Decades glasses: Coco and Bibi

Loving the gold bridges on these Mykita Decades frames. Top is Coco in coral red, while below is Bibi in opal.

Brixton Village #3: Kirk Originals Beam in green on Meriem

Meriem wears a wonderful frame from the Beam collection at Kirk Originals, whose Sale at the flagship Conduit Street store in London ends  tomorrow - Saturday 22 July (70% off some stuff so quick, quick, quick).

Look out for Meriem in her Kirk shades in a separate post soon. Like many people with Kirk Orginals specs, she's a fanatic so has >1 pair.

Footnote: Meriem works round the corner from Kirks' on Heddon Street for Momo, where EWG remembers a Roberto Cavalli Eyewear launch in (about) 2002. Lots of snakes on the temples... I think I met someone from S Club 7.

UPDATE  21-7-12: It was 2001 and it was Liberty, later known as Liberty X, not S Club.

Dzmitry Samal's 2012 eyewear collection: Intersection

Dzimtry Samal has graced these pages a couple of times before so it's exciting to catch up with his 2012 collection, Intersection, a fitting name given Samal's background in car design. The name actually refers to the intersection of shapes, whether a circle, triangle, square or  hexagon. Acetate frames, handmade in France, are available from Dzimitry Samal now – priced €298 – and from high-end opticians soon.


Photos by www.cessphoto.com

Beam, Benz or Bentley: Kirk Originals' best batch yet?

"Beam" of course. Kirk Originals really has stepped up its game with what EWG thinks might be its best batch of bins yet. The colours, the shapes, the innovation, these glasses are good enough to eat.

The Beam collection was raved about back in September 2011, and here are a few brand new shots of some of the latest rays of light to emanate from the Kirk design house.

View more pictures on the Kirk site here...

Or watch Jason Kirk talking about them on the 2012 Designers video...

Get around, round, round: Mykita eyewear 2012

Mykita continues to make round glasses as inviting as they ever could be. Above you can see Teiti, Thorvald and Cecile. And at the top, two pictures from another wonderful Mykita lookbook, shot by Mark Borthwick. See the full Mykita 2012 lookbook here...

Cheap Monday matt acetate frames for 2012: the Crude Edition

2011's trend toward matt finishes continues into 2012, as this Crude Edition from Cheap Monday illustrates. Apparently you can get face painting at grown-ups' parties too...

Kick Eyes Glasses for the partying classes: compressed felt shades

You can never go to enough parties, so hot on the heels of Ch00ftech's New Year's Eve shutter shades comes the intriguingly named Kick Eyes Glasses, from Nono Muaks.

These look great do they not!? And EWG has to create a new tag for the material: compressed felt! It bends but "never breaks".

The felt shades come in pink, green, red and black. Price $9.99.

Wooden frames get colourful, but only on FEB31st

FEB31st is a new brand from Italy which is providing a new take on wooden frames by creating a collection in natural wooden finishes but in bright colours inside and/or outside.

Designer Valerio Cometti presented the new collection earlier this month in Paris. FEB21st says its frames weigh only 21 grams, they have a reinforced nosepads and a clever method for getting the lenses in.

From the top: Crux (x3), Ara and Auriga. The FEB31st collection includes nine models: four for men, three for women and two unisex; four of these frames are available also for sunglasses. Below, three more Crux and Cygnus Sun.

Isson Eyewear 2012: pets allowed

Australian eyewear designer Isson has again demonstrated its ability to create truly original designs with this Bauhaus-inspired sunglass collection for 2012.

We loved Betsy for SS2011, but this range is simply beautiful - very exciting.

Early days but the frame Martha is already teacher's pet for the new school year, particularly in green pearl, left with the guinea pigs.

Also shown is Ludwig in black matte with the cat, and Gunta in caramel sundae, with the pug...

RVS by V handmade eyewear: Sugar never was so Sweet

I have a pair of RVS by V glasses and I'm not exaggerating if I say that the matt acetate finish is second to none; a delight to touch. Here RVS releases two new styles, Sugar and Sweet, both available in suitably candied colours, temples and fronts can be combined to the customer's choice.