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.

Bill's Collection: Bar Refaeli wears Beatrix glasses in Under.Me ad

As I recovered from my New Year's flu I decided to settle down and watch Kill Bill Vol. 2 while doing that whole two-screen thing and looking for some new brands. Then I received an email from Maya Sapir, the owner of Hamashkifa opticians in Tel Aviv. Not only was she presenting to me a rather stunning collection of spectacles, the frames in question were inspired by Kill Bill! But let's not get distracted by an irrelevant tale of synchronicity...

Bill's Collection should not be killed. It's small but perfectly formed: four handmade models in two colours. What's more, here they are (top and below in an ad for lingerie brand Under.Me) modelled, underwater no less, by Israeli model Bar Refaeli.

Prada FW2012 women's ad featuring Prada Portrait sunglasses

Prada maintain's its status as the most interesting designer fashion brand for specs, as is demoed in this FW2012 ad, featuring its Portrait sunglasses

"Where would one buy glasses like the pair worn by oneself?"

The Queen, seen here thanking the nation's people for their goodwill over her busy Diamond Jubilee weekend, purchases her spectacles from Roger Pope & Partners on New Cavendish Street, London. And very good they look too, although I did quite like Her Majesty in those 3D glasses as well!

Pope also has a practice in Dulwich Village.

Oliver Goldsmith bespoke sunglasses - handmade in England

Here's a little video from Oliver Goldsmith showing what goes into making a bespoke pair of sunglasses. These little beauties are handmade in England...

And above that, the pyramid shades we've raved about here before, which once featured in the late Vidal Sassoon's 1960s ad campaign and currently feature at the top of Eye Wear Glasses' Facebook page. Feel free to like us there!

Andy Wolf: The Rosenthal Legacy (featuring handmade Austrian eyewear)

Pictures from Andy Wolf latest collection soon but for now here's a video of The Rosenthal Legacy, a film featuring, as you might expect, plenty of good-quality handmade eyewear from Austria.

Les nuits sans Kim Wilde by Laurent Voulzy - Glasses feature heavily

Can anyone identify these glasses in Laurent Voulzy's very-1980s video?

Fancy a joint? Prodesign's Zense hinge

Prodesign Denmark has launched new colours and a new shape to its award-winning Zense line. This hinge doesn't fail to make me smile. Indeed the glasses themselves grin when closed...

Willems Wonderglasses: a pizza perfection

This is of course a family website, so anyone of a sensitive disposition should  simply enjoy the campaign image above from Willems Wonderglasses and this frame from its titanium collection, Charlotte. But for those who want to know where to buy the perfect pizza, we present this little takeaway....

Rolf Spectacles: a short film about wooden glasses

More from Rolf... am loving that vintage Beamer!

Amber Rose-tinted glasses at the Vintage Frames Company, Montreal

American model and eyewear fanatic Amber Rose took advantage of her recent trip to Montreal to pop into the Vintage Frames Company for a private eyewear consultation. Well, it would have been private, were it not for this quick video. Amber is pictured top with vintage eyewear aficionado Corey Shapiro, who runs the store and the Vintage Frames Shop, one of, if not the most, exciting vintage sunglass destinations online. Corey describes Amber as a sunglasses beast: "One of the only people I fit for frames where everything looks smashing!"
Can I skip the pedicure when I make it over there Corey?

Garrett Leight California Optical's Fall 2011 eyewear

Garrett Leight's Fall 2011 collection – loving the big frames!

Prada F/W 2011 'goggle glasses' at Milan Fashion Week

Yet again Prada is making a real effort to create a little eyewear-excitement from the frequently-too-dull-when-it-comes-to-glasses mainstream fashion bigboys.

This time, we have what we've named "goggle glasses". They feature on the first few models to pace the runway at the Milan Fashion Show 2011 and again, with a rather cool hat, after 7 minutes or so.

Now taking bets as to whether these will make it into stores...

Barton Perreira 2011 eyewear video - Get Some

Barton Perreira 's 2011 video features some great eyewear on display to another good soundtrack. Last year it was Wild Beasts (EWG's album of the year Two Dancers); this year Lykke Li's Get Some.

Kirk Originals gets clever: glasses that change as you move

Any glasses launch from Kirk Originals involves a wee surprise. So here is Equaliser from the new Kinetic collection. Good eh? Nice shape, 80s-esque graphic equaliser on the side. But what's this? The temple changes as you move? Turn up the bass, tweak the treble...

Don't believe? Check this video of another model, the Spectrum, from the Kirk Originals Kinetic collection...

Here's one more pic, featuring "Flash" in three exposures... Look how the temple changes. Can't wait to see the beauties in Paris next weekend! These are up for Silmo d'Or; like an Oscar, but for specs...

Enjoy Freudenhaus Eyewear with reggae - from Derbrillenprophet

This great film above by Derbrillenprophet features loads of Freudenhaus, such as these Riddle glasses pictured below...

Élise Crombez wears Gold and Wood eyewear

A 10-minute slideshow of pictures of Belgian model Élise Crombez wearing luxury eyewear brand Gold & Wood glasses and sunglasses. There are some great styles included...

Stereotyping spectacles - remember you don't have to be one to want to look like one

Ugly Betty's Becki Newton on Ray-Ban Wayfarers, aviators, Versace and Tiffany sunglasses

I'm saying nothing... Remember, they have to be functional AND fabulous

Bruuns Bazaar eyewear: 82 styles in two minutes...