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Toots In This Week’s Look Magazine

February 22nd, 2012

That’s right, the Black Eyewear Toots made it into the 20th February 2012 issue of Look Magazine.  For a fashion shoot entitled Hey Girlfriend our round turquoise sunglasses lend some girlie charm.

Black Eyewear in Papercut Magazine

February 21st, 2012

Black Eyewear frames Tatum and Alice were used for a photo shoot featured in Papercut Magazine’s Webitorial Emotions.

Check out the fantastic images created by photographers Carlo and Fabiana Nicora at The Round Peg.

Most Wanted Loves Black Eyewear

February 20th, 2012

Thanks for the great article Most Wanted!

In the midst of the rectangular repetitiveness seen in your average local opticians, Black Eyewear is an oasis of carefully curated, on-trend optical styles.

Long gone are the days glasses were simply bound by the restrictions of NHS fodder. With such a large selection of new and pre-owned vintage frames online, all you need is your prescription and a willingness to browse – with eyewear just another outlet of fashionable expression.

 

MW is very excited then to present the online one-stop-shop for retro inspired frames, available at Vintage by Robert Roope. Craving prescription frames that make a subtle statement, this brilliant selection are inspired by jazz musicians, actors and stars of bygone eras – think singer Buddy Holly, saxophonist John Coltrane, guitarist Django Reinhardt and vocalist Peggy Lee to name but a few.

With frames available with prescription, blank and tinted sunglasses lenses, no wonder London’s finest including Fearne Cotton and Sienna Miller have been spotted sporting pairs.

A tip on the hottest optical shapes for 2012? For women think cats-eye and pastel, rounded rims with a square tops just like the below:

Alice, £137
Django, £137
Emily PK, £137
Peggy CCB, £137
Zoot TQ, £157
Wes TAH, £137
Roy IVS, £137
Peggy TQ, £137
Dinah IV, £137

For men; think rounded and refined in a tortoiseshell or burgundy:

Chico, £137
Chett TT, £137
Bixx TTG, £137
Errol LT, £137
Milt LT, £137
Tatum H, £137
Coltrane II, £137

We’ve Done It Again…

February 19th, 2012

…we’ve gone and created another video of Black Eyewear at the London Boat Show 2012.  Following on from our video of protraits this short creation reflects the week that was exhibiting in the Lucury Lifestyle and Supercar Showcase at the Excel London Boat Show 2012.  If you’d like to share our experience of the event click here:

Black Eyewear at the London Boat Show 2012 II

Haven’t seen our original Boat Show video yet?  Don’t miss out:

Black Eyewear at the London Boat Show 2012

Frame of the Week: Max

February 18th, 2012

This week the Black Eyewear Frame of the Week is the Black Eyewear Max.  Dedicated to jazz great Max Roach was a fantastic drummer and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz.  Here he is on the drums:

The Third Eye

For Big Sid Solo

 

Jazz on BBC4 Tonight

February 17th, 2012

Tonight at 9:00pm BBC 4‘s Arena looks at jazz great Sonny Rollins.  This film, Sonny Rollins: Beyond The Music,  by Dick Fontaine, a follow-up to one made 40 years ago, is built around the celebratory concert Rollins performed for his 80th Birthday and focuses on what an inspiration and role model Rollins has been to a younger generation proving that you can be a great jazz musician without succumbing to a ‘jazz life’.

At 10:00 pm Rollins is in the spotlight again as newly discovered film footage of a performance at Ronnie Scott’s in 1974 is released in Sonny Rollins ’74: Rescued.

At 11:00 pm a favourite is replayed, Ronnie Scott And All That Jazz, a documentary about the famous London venue which opened in 1959.

Finally, the festival of jazz ends at midnight with a replay of 1959: The Year That Changed Jazz and a look back at the influential albums of that year.

Love Vintage?

February 16th, 2012

We do too so here’s a list of Vintage Fairs around the country.  Will you be there?

VINTAGE FAIRS
FEBRUARY
The Vintage Wedding Fair 19/02/2012 Harrogate View Details
Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair 19/02/2012 London View Details
Leeds Vintage Fair 19/02/2012 Leeds View Details
Lincoln Vintage Fair 19/02/2012 Lincoln View Details
Newcastle Vintage Fair 25/02/2012 Northumbria Uni. View Details
Strictly Vintage 25/02/2012 Leicester View Details
Vintage Textiles and Fashion Fair 25/02/2012 S. Glouc. View Details
Derby Vintage Fair 26/02/2012 Derby View Details
Bakewell Antiques and Collectors Fair 26/02/2012 Bakewell View Details
Bath Vintage & Antiques 26/02/2012 Bath View Details
MARCH
The Vintage Kilo Sale 02/03/2012 London View Details
Vintage, Crafts & Pre Loved Extraveganza 03/03/2012 Birmingham View Details
Nottingham Vintage Fair 03/03/2012 Nottingham View Details
Spitalfields Vintage Fair 03/03/2012 London View Details
Discover Vintage 04/03/2012 York View Details
Blightly Boutique Vintage & Handmade Fair 04/03/2012 Warwick View Details
Retrolex Vintage Market 04/03/2012 Bristol View Details
Something Kinda Vintage Wedding Fair 04/03/2012 Swansea View Details
Sheffield Vintage Fair 10/03/2012 Sheffield View Details
Vintage Wedding Fair 11/03/2012 Chester View Details
Cumbria Vintage Fair 11/03/2012 Cumbria View Details
Leicester Vintage Fair 11/03/2012 Leicester View Details
The Vintage Village at Stockport Market Hall 11/03/2012 Stockport View Details
Edinburgh Vintage Fair 17/03/2012 Edinburgh View Details
Royal Bath and West Showground 18/03/2012 Somerset View Details
Glasgow Vintage Fair 18/03/2012 Glasgow View Details
Vintage Home Show 18/03/2012 London View Details
Anitas Vintage Fashion Fair 18/03/2012 London View Details
Little Vintage Lover Fair 18/03/2012 Norfolk View Details
Vintage Wedding Fair 25/03/2012 Leamington Spa View Details
Vintage Fashion and Textiles Fair 25/03/2012 Wilmslow View Details
Bethnal Green Furniture Flea 25/03/2012 London View Details
All Things Vintage and Lovely Fair 31/03/2012 Devon View Details
Ilkley Vintage Bazaar 31/03/2012 Leeds View Details
Strictly Vintage 31/03/2012 Leicester View Details
APRIL
Discover Vintage 01/04/2012 Manchester View Details
“Hello Bygones” Vintage and Retro Bash 01/04/2012 Somerset View Details
Zoe Lem’s Vintage Wedding Fair 01/04/2012 London View Details
Sandown Park Vintage Fair 03/04/2012 Surrey View Details
Easter Vintage Fair 06/04/2012 Kent View Details
Queen Elizabath High School Antiques Fair 07/04/2012 Wales View Details
Ripley Antique Fair 07/04/2012 Harrogate View Details
Spitalfields Vintage fair 07/04/2012 London View Details
Stirling Antique and Collectors Fair 07/04/2012 Scotland View Details
Helmsley’s Antique and Collectors Fair 07/04/2012 Helmsley View Details
Doncaster Racecourse Collectors Fair 08/04/2012 South Yorkshire View Details
North Norfolks Fine Art & Antiques Fair 08/04/2012 Norfolk View Details
Pennyfarthing Fair 08/04/2012 Hertfordshire View Details
The Blackpool Antiques and Collectors Fair 08/04/2012 Blackpool View Details
Newbury Antiques, Vintage and Collectors Market 12/04/2012 Berkshire View Details
Suffolk Vintage Fashion and Textiles Fair 14/04/2012 Suffolk View Details
Clitheroe Chic Vintique Fair 14/04/2012 Lancashire View Details
Headingley Vintage and Antique Fair 21/04/2012 Leeds View Details
Grantham Antiques and Design Fair 21/04/2012 Grantham View Details
The Vintage Bazaar 21/04/2012 Somerset View Details
Stockton on Tees Chic Vintique Fair 21/04/2012 Stockon on Tees View Details
Vintage Fashion and Textiles Fair 22/04/2012 Chester View Details
Pop Up Vintage Fairs 22/04/2012 London View Details
Little Vintage lover Fair 28/04/2012 Norwich View Details
Festival of Vintage 28/04/2012 York View Details
Durham Vintage Fair 28/04/2012 Durham View Details
Yard Life 28/04/2012 London View Details
Newcastle Vintage Fair 28/04/2012 Newcastle View Details
The Essex Vintage Fair 28/04/2012 Essex View Details
Frock Me! 28/04/2012 Chelsea View Details

Frame of the Week: Coltrane

February 13th, 2012

This week the Black Eyewear Frame of the Week is the Black Eyewear Coltrane.  Dedicated to jazz great John Coltrane, who needs no introduction, this is one of our most popular frames!  Here he is on the sax:

My Favorite Things

Blue Train

London Boat Show Video

February 8th, 2012

You may recall a few weeks ago we exhibited Black Eyewear at the London Boat Show.  Well, we’ve made a short video of some of the portraits we took there.  Please click here to view:

Black Eyewear at the London Boat Show

 

 

Daniel Craig Wears Specs in Latest Film

February 7th, 2012

Daniel Craig stars with Rooney Mara in the latest film adaptation of the Swedish crime novel  Män som hatar kvinnor or as we know it The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Stieg Larsson’s trilogy of books has become immensely popular generating two films.  In the latest Hollywood version Daniel Craig plays bespectacled journalist Mikael Blomkvist.  Robin Wright also wears classic glasses in the film for her role as Blomkvist’s business partner Erika Berger.  Here they are in the film: