V A is a long standing and recognised digital creative; her voice resonates with many. In the last ten years, the site has developed into an online destination for fashion, beauty and lifestyle advice. Her sense of style, editorial flair and practical counsel offers an inspired and graceful approach to living.

V A is a long standing and recognised digital creative; her voice resonates with many. In the last ten years, the site has developed into an online destination for fashion, beauty and lifestyle advice. Her sense of style, editorial flair and practical counsel offers an inspired and graceful approach to living.

Edit by: Vicki
Mar 12, 2016

Frame It Up: With A Signature Frame

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Do you have a signature frame?


I like a retro, slightly bigger frame to makes a statement, kind of frame.

Glasses have become one of the most important accessories in my life; can’t live without them and yet I do find them annoying.


Recently I have had a trying time with my glasses.

It’s not really their fault they disappear, never to be found, or they drop on hard surfaces and get scratched and become un-wearable. They seem to want to stay behind in taxis and fall out of handbags in airports.


For someone who looks after most things very diligently, the frame and I don’t seem to understand each other.

It goes without saying that I lose the reading glasses with the super-duper-more-expensive lens than the cheap and cheerful back up pair. Always.



I am always on the lookout for a fabulous frame.

A good pair of glasses can take years off the face (especially in photographs) a bad frame can do the opposite.


We all have days where a safety pin comes to the rescue, holds the glasses together and lets us see a lopsided world or we find an “old” pair because the “latest” are lost; in general it’s not our best look.


French and Italian women are masters of fabulous glasses. They may wear classic wardrobe pieces but European women know the “boost” value of a fashionable frame.


My current frame crush is tortoiseshell with grey hair; I love the combination of the darker frame with the light hair. Not to mention a solid red frame; a true statement.



I need a new pair; I think I might mean pairs, xv.



 

A Signature Frame

kimball whiskey tortoise  //  percey crystal  //  winston black  //  duckworth oak barrel



tom ford large havana  //  ciccio super red  //  kate spade cat-eye



p.s

there are so many fun new videos loaded to watch in EYESPY

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