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Style Spotlight: May Flowers

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Back in April, I put the style spotlight on frames in rainy blue and aqua hues, drawing inspiration from the seasonal weather conditions—aka, April Showers. What do April Showers bring? Yes indeed, they bring May Flowers! While the pattern isn’t the most groundbreaking concept, it’s certainly rooting its fashionable flare on many of Pearle Vision’s frames this season. So we’ve come full circle from April to May, and once again, I’m letting my surroundings influence my spec style choices—and right now I’m putting the petal to the metal with flower print and blossom embellished frames. CONTINUE READING Continue reading

A-Z Frame Picks

A-Z Frame Picks

As your fashion and style blogger, I’m naturally excited by great eyewear and I love to explore a diverse range of shapes, materials, colors, patterns and trends. So you can understand that with an incredibly wide range of eye war brands, when perusing Pearle Vision’s product offerings I’m a kid in a candy store. While I could wax poetic on every spectacle in the catalog, today I decided to reign in my focus and spotlight a single frame pick from each of Pearle Vision’s designers viewable online! Which styles made the cut? Read on for the exceptional eyewear styles I love, alphabetically by brand from A – Z! CONTINUE READING Continue reading

Style Spotlight: April Showers

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The sunny, blossoming nature of spring is often interrupted by the month of April, with forecasts dominated by partly cloudy and rainy day reports. As the saying goes, April showers bring May flowers, so the higher chance of precipitation this month is really actually a good thing! Inspired by the water droplets drizzling all around, I thought it was an appropriate opportunity to shine the style spotlight on blue and aqua colored frames. In my choice blue-ribbon winning styles featured here, you’ll be styling in the rain! CONTINUE READING Continue reading

Fashion Week Frame Forecast

Fashion Week Frame Forecast

If you’re not fashion-industry literate, let me fill you in quickly on the importance of Fashion Week. Each February, high fashion designers show their collections for the upcoming Fall season in a whirlwind week of shows worldwide in New York, Paris, London, Milan, Berlin and more. The same happens in September for the upcoming Spring season. While the spectacle may just seem a parade of sartorial entertainment, fashion week is much more. These shows are where many of the next season’s trends take shape, so industry insiders study and analyze each collection to determine the direction of what’s current in terms of style. CONTINUE READING Continue reading

Music and Eyewear

Music and Eyewear

It may initially seem a contradictory pairing, music and eyewear. After all, music is hugely an auditory medium. When you think of music, it’s almost immediately associated with, well, the sound of music, its emission, and the receiving point: your ears. The reverberation of an opera singer’s voice echoing in a concert hall, amplifiers pumping the sound-waves of songs to audiences, headphones making the transmission of music a private exchange directly to your ears, and knobs on a radio adjusting the volume—these all make the argument that music is, as the saying goes, ‘music to my ears’. But I digress: today we ignore the ears altogether and focus on the eyes. More specifically, the eyes of iconic musicians who have created a strong link between the music they create and the eyewear that defines them. CONTINUE READING Continue reading