Posts under ‘Specs Image’

Could There Be A Current UK Personality More Right For Spectacles Blog’s Famous Four Eyes?
Reading a recent article on The Times Online I was struck by the fact that Gok has not blessed our Spectacles Blog pages before with his presence in our Famous four Eyes section.  In that article, the photo of Gok by Giles Hattersley (as [...]

Famous Four Eyes: Famous Front
I’m not sure exactly what’s the news but I think that it’s that Kelly Brook is to front the next Spectacles Wearer Of The Year. Do you think they call it swoty - surely that’s just the image they’re trying to lose as in swotty! Not that Kelly looks swotty…  But it does [...]

Quite a while ago, I got wind of a short film being made called “Spectacles”. I was intrigued of course and tried to find out about it.  This is what the website says… “Young, innocent, and cursed with poor sight, William Franklin invents his own remedy to seeing the world in a better light.  As [...]

All Around The World Geek Chic Gets Image Makeover
Once again, I’ve lost my original source. Sorry if you wanted it - or were it!
In an article about Pretty Geek Chic, I gathered most of the following… in ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ a trend caught on with the lead pretty woman in her black-rimmed specs and [...]

Essilor “the world’s leading manufacturer of spectacle lenses eyewear and optical products” survey…
The rampant on-line spectacles/glasses retailer firmoo have a blog and on that blog they published the results of a recent survey.  The gist was that “Americans’ perception about the eyeglasses has been changed a lot due to the popularity of fashion eyeglasses”.  And [...]

These Were on The Catwalk Too - Prada This Time
Following the last post about the catwalk, these were also seen at Prada.  Or like these…  (Thepromoters of these onesdon’t ike the full eye brow - browline - of the full cat eye look.)  SO I guess that we’re talking cats eyes on the cat’s walk.
These [...]

Spectacles Blog Comes Back To Life…
I know that I’ve been quiet recently but I’m back and there’s lots to talk about.  I’ve got about 20 drafts of various spectacles and glases related stories and artcies just waiting to be polished and published…
Meanwhile a snippet which goes very firmly into the “Spectacles Image” section: About the fact [...]

More Spectacles’ Image Building… Luxury Desiger Style
You should see the times on line story for full details but it starts off with the adage that spectacles used to be to correct vision but now they’re something else.  And the boss of Cutler & Gross, one of the established houses of glasses, now run by chief [...]

Who Can Tell When & What Fashion Will Be In Glasses?
As usual the tinernet is hot with comments and referrals to the new TV ad from Specsavers - after being positively on fire from the “sperm” ad you’ll only see on-line.
As usual it’s a clever gag leading to the inevitable “Should have gone to…” but my [...]

How Specs Are Gaining All The Time In Style & Image
I read last year (I know I’ve had a lot of time off spectacles for a while and I’m just caching up now) three pieces and two completely different articles that endorse just how specs are on the up & up these days when it comes [...]