According to Style.com’s weekly “Shop the Look’ , (a site that we follow for the fashion trends), round metal sunglasses are in fashion again. The New York Times reported on the same trend and a feature article titled “Why Round Sunglasses? A Style Investigation”.
Lulu Guinness Patience L485
Below are a few quotes from that article and plus a couple of round sunglass styles from Tura and OGI Frames for optical retailers who are ready for eyewear customers who want to shop this look.
“This is what fashion is,” said Simon Jablon, the English designer behind the Linda Farrow sunglasses label, which was founded by his mother in 1970. “It is a trend. You can just sense it. You have a feeling for where things are going to go.”
Designers are looking at the same things — art exhibitions, fashionable parties, rock stars — so their impulses are often surprisingly in step with one another. But sometimes it’s possible to trace where their ideas are coming from.
Round frames last appeared as a fashion trend about two decades ago. In 1989, when Alain Mikli introduced a thick-rimmed version, Woody Hochswender wrote in The New York Times that “a modified John Lennon look is the newest old thing.”
Seraphin Penn Sun 8519 by OGI
The NY Times sunglass article explains how designers get ideas and these similar ideas develop into a trend which over period of time eventually become the high street style. But this article features eyewear design in particular so click on the link if you would like to read it.
Here is a link back to a previous post about the History of Sunglasses.
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