Posts with tag sunglasses

While we used to think of Oakley as just a sport sunglasses brand, the company has been steadily expanding into more fashion-forward styles, and we're thrilled. They offer the sleek look of some of the crazy-expensive designer brands, but at a lower price. Plus, they tend to fit really well and don't slide down our nose!

The Ravishing design is one of our favorites, especially now that Oakley has released (starting today!) this Breast Cancer Awareness Edition ($140 at Oakley.com). They're a little funky, with the pink and white scribbles on the side, but that could be just the thing you need to make your sunglasses stand out from all your friends'.

Rubber Duck is back with a fall collection filled with plaid. Fans like Lindsay Lohan, Sienna Miller and Hillary Duff will be excited to see that the LA/Copenhagen hipster line includes more choices of their infamous Snowjoggers, which are either tons better or a million times worse than Uggs, depending on your age and coolness orientation.

In addition to the Snowjoggers, you can also get tennis shoes and scarves in matching plaid. And to complete your Rubber Duck look, grab a pair of the brightly colored Wayfarer style sunglasses, or the porno-riffic "Las Vegas" goggle-style that we totally covet in white.

Need help putting together your perfect Rubber Duck outfit? In the gallery, a few of our choice favs, including those sexy sunglasses.

Tim Hamilton collaborates with Linda Farrow on some badd sunglasses, shown below from Hamilton's S/S '09 show over New York Fashion Week.

Guys don't really have a myriad of accessories to obsess over. Most don't wear much--if any--jewelry, or carry a bag, or put things in their hair, or have much use for scarves. It's all the more reason that a man's choice of sunglasses carries a lot of weight.

The never-fail option is classic aviators, which were first developed by Ray-Ban way back in 1937. According to Wikipedia, aviators are defined by their "dark, often reflective lenses having an area two or three times the area of the eye socket, and metal frames with wire temples which hook behind the ears."

Of course, most of us simply know them when we see them. Here are some of our favorite, modern takes on the eternally cool aviator sunglasses.

A few days ago, a loyal reader by the name of Jennifer Petino was pondering where fashionista Rachel Zoe acquired the glasses she's wearing in this photo at the Spring 2009 fashion week in NYC. Lucky for Jennifer, she came to the right source.

After a little research and help from our friends at CelebrityStyleGuide, we figured out that these are indeed Tom Ford's Raquel glasses. A celebrity favorite, they've also been spotted on faces like Demi Moore.

Thanks for the questions! Keep them coming!

• Tom Ford "Raquel" sunglasses, Neiman Marcus, $380

Now that states like California and Washington have "no cellphones in the car" laws in effect, it seems like everyone has a hands-free unit set stuck in their ears. A few smart manufacturers, like Jawbone, realized that if women are going to use these items, they better work and they better be pretty.

Our giveway this week, a Jawbone hands-free headset, meets both of those requirements. The luxurious rose gold finish and small but elegant shape puts it in a league with designer sunglasses. Jawbone claims to have 15 times the noise reduction of other headsets because of their Noise Assassin technology. We can't confirm the specific metric, but this demo from their site sure is impressive. And we could actually hear our friend on the other end of the phone, even though she was in a car. With the windows open!

Want to test out this pretty headset yourself?
Click here for complete Official Rules.

As we mentioned earlier, we're not totally committed to wearing Ray-Ban wayfarers on our face this summer.

To sum up our sentiments about the phenomenon known as the wayfarer in a short and succinct matter, we would like to borrow a sentence from writer Hadley Freeman, whom recently wrote about the coveted frames:

"Many a poem, many a song, many an ode has been written about the human face, but I have yet to read one that suggests it might be improved by the addition of a pair of wonkily shaped plastic glasses in some kind of neon colour."

Ooh, Hadley. It's like you were reading our minds.

Michael Buckner is a fashion and celebrity photographer who travels around the world taking pictures on the red carpet. He gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the hottest entertainment industry events.



It's that time of year again -- time to honor the songwriters for today's hottest hip hop and R&B performers. Producers, lyricists and managers filled the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the dinner and awards ceremony.

Since rappers where sunglasses everywhere they go, I've decided to do a gallery of my favorite shades for the
evening.

Hip hop stars and designer eyewear make for bad pictures, but good shopping options for those who want to hide from the cameras like a true playa.

The geniuses at Thinkgeek are very fancy. Look what they did! They put a camera into a badass looking pair of sunglasses!

At right, the 1.3 Megapixel Spy Camera Sunglasses. $99.99. Holy awesome.

Last July a Valentino Fashion Group called SpA purchased a forty-five percent stake in the Proenza Schouler brand -- which meant that designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez would finally have enough funding to create a line of accessories to accompany those banded dresses and bustier tops their customers flip out over each season.

It's hard to know how to feel about this lamp. On the one hand, it's made of something we really like -- aviators. On the other hand, that's a lot of perfectly good pairs of sunglasses to use on a lamp -- when they could be making someone look cool while also shading their eyes from the harsh rays of the sun. It's a bit of a conundrum.

One way to justify purchasing a lamp this outrageous is to remember one thing: while sunglasses might be one of the few accessories that men use to make a statement, furniture is another. Maybe you don't think much about what your furniture says about you, but other people do. A great lamp like this is a total conversation piece, plus it casts awesome shadows on your wall. Yeah, it's a pricey -- but it could really tie the room together.

[via GearCrave]

We can see you, you've got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby. Well, we can't really see you, no need to feel violated or to put on pants (by the way, Don Henley can see you, always- do with that what you will).

Ray-Ban has brought the Wayfarer back. Again. It's not just for the boys of summer, but man, they'll look good in a pair.

Ray-Ban has been "genuine since 1937", which we understand was a damn fine year. They've been putting out some good stuff ever since.

So you scored an invite to a swanky poolside bash this summer, or, maybe it's not so swanky, but you still have people there you want to seriously impress. No doubt you're going to sport some killer shoes, and you'll probably have a fabulous bathing suit and cover-up planned. To finish the look, though, don't forget your sunglasses!

At the risk of sounding a little bit nutso, we definitely think there is an art to packing the ultimate beach bag. If you can pack it up with essentials and still keep it light, then you've got the knack.