The History of London Fashion Week

As a website and blog all about eyewear, we like to keep up-to-date with the latest fashion trends, and that means always thinking ahead to NEXT season's line up, after all, who would want to be seen wearing last year's sunglasses? 

This week is London Fashion Week, so with the help of our latest guest writer, we thought we'd take a look at the event, it's brief history and what it has become today.

How London Fashion Week Became the Show

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Skins Stars Wear SelectSpecs Glasses

Get the preppy look with the help of two of the stars of Skins, who are featured in a photo shoot for Now Magazine wearing glasses from SelectSpecs.  Laya Lewis and Jessica Sula who play Liv and Grace in the hit E4 television series show you how to ace the current college fashion trend.

Following on from our recent Avril Lavigne post, which inspired OK magazine to do a piece on our glasses, we sent some glasses off...

Ditch the Contacts, Don the Frames

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Top Nerdy Glasses for Guys and Girls

There are certain fashion accessories that modern culture obsesses over, and at the top of that list are glasses. Although technically these are items that are worn for corrective reasons, the same way one would wear a hearing aid, they have their own school of style. What we call "nerdy" glasses is the best example. Classic styles have been created throughout the years, which society relates to those studious, clever nerds whom everyone secretly wants to be like. While constantly reading and studying may be boring, wearing the...

Eyeglasses: Function and Fashion

Eyeglasses have come a long way from having only a corrective purpose, paying no attention to style to combining practicality and fashion. Available in a variety of styles, shapes, sizes and colors, prescription glasses can help one construe their personal image.

The progress made in the eyewear industry has made it possible for people to correct their vision disorders in elegant and fashionable ways with just about all the top designer fashion brands jumping in and playing a roll.

The introduction of lightweight frames and lenses have enabled...

Top British Designer Alexander McQueen is Found Dead

The fashion industry was in shock yesterday at the tragic news of the death of one of Britain’s top fashion designers Alexander McQueen who was found dead at his home in London on Thursday 11th February 2010.  Lee Alexander McQueen’s death comes just 9 days after the death of his mother which he announced via his own twitter page on 3rd February.  It has been suggested that Mr McQueen was found hanged, but police are not yet treating his death as suspicious.  Alexander McQueen had previously won the

Maison Martin Margiela Crazy Sunglasses

Doing a bit of surfing of the Intertubes I stumbled across these bad boys from Maison Martin Margiela.

This Belgian fashion designer has maintained a notoriously low profile throughout his career; he has never had his picture taken and hides backstage after his fashion shows.  Getting an interview with the man himself is like trying to build a life-sized Empire State Building entirely out of Lego in the middle of an earthquake, since any media contact with the designer is via a fax machine alone.

Martin Margiela’s designs revolt against...