FRAMED... JOHANNA... GOTHENBURG

Superstylish: my dear friend Johanna in her new snazzy glasses over a cup of coffea in Gothenburg / Sweden.

DO YOU HAVE SPECSAPPEAL?

Do you feel great in your glasses? Do you wear your specs as an accessory? And, do you have specs appeal? That is what is important when Specsavers is searching for ambassadors for glasses.

For over 10 years, Specsavers have been looking for people around the world looking stunning in their glasses and wearing them with confidence, pride and a great attitude. For the first time in Australia and in New Zealand, the one and only eyewear fashion competition for true specs-o-holics has been launched.

Together with Style icons Margot Robbie in Australia (from Neighbours) and Goc Wan in New Zealand (from How to look good naked), Specsavers celebrate the personal style and people feeling fabulous in their specs.

Send in your picture now, wearing your favourite pair of glasses and you can win a modelling contract and masses of glamorous prizes! Enter the competition at http://competition.specsavers.com.au/

GLASSES - ON OR OFF?

When it comes to wearing glasses to the party, to a date or even if you’re a TV presenter, more and more wearers tend to keep them on nowadays. This is a crystal clear trend and a great development, seeing that glasses have massively increased their fashion credentials, especially over the past few years. Of course, there are situations when glasses are not that practical; during swimming and other kind of sporting activities.There is also a very special occasion, when accessories, clothes, shoes and jewellery are so carefully chosen, only the absolute best of the best make it to the lime light; your wedding!

You hear these ancient stories about brides walking down the aisle with guests, priest and groom in a blurry mess, just because they didn’t want their glasses to cover their eyes during this big moment. Today though, technology has given us much better contact lenses that suit more and more people, and at least the blurry moments can be avoided. But are glasses really a mis-fit to your bride or groom’s outfit? What do you think? I guess the second big question to pop is; glasses - on or off?

Just to build on the theme; im now OFF to Europe and Sweden in particular to.... get wedded! Are you gonna ask me the question? Well, I won't tell you until Im back so stay tuned!

Patty below from the photoshoot for the wedding article of In the Frame!

PHOTOSHOOT AT SALFORD LADS CLUB

Finally, here are some of the photos from the shoot at Salford Lads Club a couple of weeks ago with Patty (love photographing her).






Where: Salfords Lads Club, Port Melbourne
Model: Patty
Wearing: Glasses from Specsavers (Charlene | 24233637 | 2 pairs for AUD $199 incl. single vision standard lenses 1.5)
Bike: Italian Colnago in red. Belong to the cafe

FRAMED.... LADY IN RED... CLARENDON ST, MELBOURNE

Sherryn (hope it's correct spelling) walking past in Clarendon St, looking smashing in her red specs!

FRAMED...BERNIE....SALFORD LADS CLUB / MELBOURNE

FRAMED... TOM...SALFORD LADS CLUB (MELBOURNE)

My new favorite place - the cool, beautifully furnished Salfords Lads Club - is not only just around the corner from the office in Port Melbourne but they also make world class coffeas! Tom, the Barista, is framed in glasses above...

If you recognize the name it might be from the over 100 years old recreational club in Salford / Greater Manchester (England) - originally only for the lads but today girls are welcome too. Perhaps this is the reason why the stylish caf Salford Lads Club in Melbourne is strategically well located on the route for all cyclists and fixie bikes are decorating the wall's and corners. And If I'm not mistaken, there might be some food activities as well in the nearest future as it looked like Greg, the owner, was working on a beautiful, big pizza oven... stay tuned!

HAUTE FRENCH FRIES

Just wanted to share with you my creation of the weekend - french stripes on cushions! As we are all mad about the french look at the moment, I thought I'd take it to another level... Don't they look fab with stripey T-shirt, jacket (Lady GaGa style from Zara) and black bold specs?!

FRAMED.... SASHI...GLENFERRY ROAD, MELBOURNE

ANOTHER KIND OF ACCESSORY

I just can't resist posting a little bit on a different accessory today.

My friend Dave, he has got the most spectacular collection of Casio watches. The cult watch from the 90ies is a favorite for a fair few coolios and it's signature shape have made inspiration for some of the "modern" retro styles you see today. To me, it brings back the memories from school and the fabulous casio calculator that could calculate the equations as well... amazing little machine.

Now I'm just waiting for Dave to get a pair of specs to match with each and ever one of his beautiful casio's.

FRAMED... A DANE IN HONG KONG

My favorite Dane, Stig, in his awesome white speccies. He always knows how to dress and impress.

FRAMED... HONG KONG

I would love to see some statistics on people wearing specs in Hong Kong because, quite frankly, every 8 out of 10 people I bump into on the streets are wearing really cool, bold specs (my own statistics). I've always said that if you want to see real enthusiasm to eyewear you've gotta go to either Milan or Paris. But, this cosmopolitan, dazzling place takes being adventurous in their visual expressions to a whole new level - and especially the men. Like these two above!

Unfortunately I've had a smaller disaster with the photos I took from the streets of Hong Kong - don't even want to go into it as it's still making my female hysteria bubble in me but I can tell you that since then I have been shopping for a brand new beautiful camera (Nikon). Sorry to you stunning people who won't appear here this time - but will for sure look out for you again next time Im back.

FRAMED.... DAISY.... CLARENDON ST / MELBOURNE

Beautiful Jeweler Daisy in green silk blouse, black fur and a nice pair of black acetate frames. Also, cool fringe (just as Im wanting to go back to)....

MORE PHOTOS.... AND APOLOGIES FOR THE DELAY

Hi all!

Sorry I haven't been posting for a while - I've been away traveling in HK, China and Sydney....very exciting...and, it means I've got some nice specswearers framed to show you very soon! It's nice to be back thou, and as promised here are some more photos of the fabulous Country Road collection! Enjoy!!

FRAMED.....MARLO.....MELBOURNE

Sweet Marlo wearing her new pair of Country Road glasses (CR 10).

NEWS: COUNTRY ROAD EYEWEAR COLLECTION 2010

I've got hot news for you! The collaboration between Country Road and Specsavers will soon be demonstrated to the audience in the form of a brand new eyewear collection: Country Road Eyewear Collection 2010 - exclusively designed for Specsavers in Australia and New Zealand.
The new collection will be available in all Specsavers stores within the next couple of weeks.

Stay tuned for more info!

THE QUEEN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEN ELIZABETH!

So, to honor the Queen of England and her birthday I dressed up especially for the occasion. The fancy dress party I went to last night said `Queen Theme`and there was a Bee Queen, Queen of hearts, Freddy Mercury from Queen... and, Im very pleased to say that I was the only real Queen. The lovely frame KERRY came in very handy as well - completed the outfit.

FRAMED.... RACH...MELBOURNE

Wearing Ben Sherman supra tortoiseshell.

SKY VISION

Anyone who spent the Sunday on Flinders Lane could not miss this peculiar vision. People wearing what looked like the very first camera on their heads walked along the street in groups of five (four camera heads and one leader).

Curious as I am I had to ask what they were up to and apparently it was some kind of periscope looking up in the sky...

Anyone knows what this is? Maybee even tried one for themselves... I'm so so curious what they discovered:-)

FRAMED...BRIDGE ROAD, MELBOURNE

Josh from ODDA store on Bridge Road in his king size specs. Loving the jeans - shirt -blue jacket - scarfe combo and colours.