Since giving you guys a hollar about our search for some seriously stylish people to star in Scout’s debute ad campaign, we’ve had a great response!
Gents, you seem to have come over all shy, so we’re still waiting to hear from you but ladies, you’ve done us proud! here are a few of our favourite entries so far:
Natasha at http://girlinthelens.com/
The georgeous Ngoni Rutendo at NRC blog rocks monochrome
http://www.jjnoir.blogspot.co.uk/ We LOVE those fluro socks!
Harriet @hazibo3 tweeted this gorgeous snap of her pairing her specs with faux fur- FAB!
Now its your turn- We want to hear from you and your style! We’re not looking for the next top model, but the most individual, stylishly fabulous faces that will wear Scout Eyewear with their own lick of individuality. Drop us an email now at Scout@Glassesdirect.com. Details are below!!!
Good luck!
Posted on: May 15th, 2012 by Sarah
We’re looking for the new face of our new brand Scout.
Scout Eyewear boasts an eclectic mix of bold and on-trend frames that need an equally individual face to wear them. On 12th June, we’ll be shooting our Scout campaign and we’re looking for some seriously stylish people to star in the campaign. Is this you?
Love fashion?
Love your own style?
WE WANT YOUR FACE
Yes?
Great. Then email us at scout@glassesdirect.com with some pictures of your fine self in your favourite get-ups, telling us why you’d like to star in the Scout campaign- just a few lines will do, just so we can get an idea of your vibe. The winners will be pampered by our style team, all expenses paid for the day and win a year’s supply of Scout glasses- with a prescription, clear lens, UV sun lens or all three! The choice is yours!
Competition ends midnight 9th June 2012 and the winners must be available to attend an all day shoot in London on 12th June 2012.
Posted on: May 14th, 2012 by Sarah
Ok, so we could be completely wrong here (and we’re not too proud to admit it when we are wrong) but we’re pretty sure that Tim Burgess, he of Brit Pop stature and heart throb status is sporting a pair of Sherlock frames from London Retro.
IS HE???
What do you think?
Snapped below sporting skinny jeans and dip dyed hair, the Brit Pop original has spoken candidly about his mad times with Dannii Minogue and The Smurfs, ditching drugs and booze – and penning some particularly ‘graphic and descriptive’ passages for his memoir ‘Telling Stories’.
Sherlock on a Charlaton?
Any excuse to turn up the cool Britannia tunes, we’ll be reading his memoirs whilst digging out our army jackets and adidas gazelles, and of course reporting back on our GD bookworm page, so keep your eyes peeled. Let us know what you think if you read it yourself too!
Shop the London Retro Collection here.
Posted on: April 23rd, 2012 by Sarah
I took this book on holiday to the beautiful island of Lanzarote three weeks ago. For the first time ever I had prescription sunglasses purchased from your good selves, so was able to sit and read in the sunshine without squinting! They were fantastic !
The Hunger Games- Accessorise with shades and a holiday in the sun!
Now onto the book………. This is an easy read aimed at the teenage market. If you liked the Twilight series you will love this book. Set in a futuristic land where every day for most ordinary people is a fight to survive as food is rationed by the government in the rich Capitol. It follows the story of Katiness Everdeen as she represents her district in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a true fight to the death as only one person out of 24 can win, the only way to win is to kill all of your opponents . A bit gory in places, this book keeps you riveted and wanting to know what happens next. As I mentioned I took this book on holiday and finished it in four days, I could not put it down. After I had read it my 11yr old daughter read it followed by my hubby. I can highly recommend this book , I thoroughly enjoyed it, so much so that I paid 2 Euros just to get on the net to order the next two books so that they were there when I got back to Blighty! My daughter and hubby also enjoyed it and now want to see the film.
A big fat 10/10 from us
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And don’t forget to include a picture of yourself with the book!
(If you’re camera shy, just the book will do but we’d rather see your lovely faces!)
Posted on: April 19th, 2012 by Sarah
GD BOOK WORM Simone Herbert puts Kinsella through her paces.
Not only did the characters feel recycled, but so did the love story b-plot.
Without giving TOO much away, I could tell that this was going to be another tale about mis-matched partners, chance meetings, and a will-they-won’t-they love story set amongst a catalogue of humorous and sometimes embarrassing scenarios.
I was right.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not an awful story, I mean, I kept reading til the end, but I can’t help feeling that without Becky Brandon (neé Bloomwood), that Ms. Kinsella is a bit lost.
Whilst the tried and tested formula worked well for the Shopaholic series (we all adore Becky Bloomwood’s ditzyness and the fact that true love prevailed even though she and Luke clearly have nothing in common), I had hoped that Kinsella would break away from her formulaic characterisation with her newest character, Poppy Wyatt.
Poppy is all set to marry Magnus, a man whose family she feels inferior to, when the loss of her engagement ring (a family heirloom) sets off a chain of events bringing her ever closer to the handsome and successful owner of the mobile phone she finds in a bin after losing her own; can you see where this is going?
As I said, it’s not an awful read, it’s essentially has an ok storyline and there are some laugh out loud moments and some interesting twists, but on the whole I wouldn’t recommend breaking your neck to get a copy, because you can’t help feeling like you already know what’s going to happen (with the charcter’s at least), and Poppy is a poor imitation of Becky.
If you’ve never read any of the Shopaholic books, or you are after an easy read, then you’ll probably enjoy it.
If you’re a diehard Kinsella/Bloomwood fan, or you are after some intellectual stimulation, then read it at your own peril.
If you’d like to join the GD BOOKWORM TEAM and be in with the chance of winning designer sunglasses AND a Kindle Touch, then share your thoughts on any recent books that you’ve written with a review:
Email your entries to: gdwin@glassesdirect.com
And don’t forget to include a picture of yourself with the book!
(If you’re camera shy, just the book will do but we’d rather see your lovely faces!)
It’s doesn’t have to be very long or particularly gushy either. If you think the books a bit pants, then just say it like you read it!
Posted on: April 18th, 2012 by Sarah
Here in the optical world, news that Google are working on “augmented reality eyewear” is being greeted with interest, granted, but it’s the kind of interest you show when a neighbour announces they are, for example, going to convert all their domestic electrical equipment to run on chicken droppings. Perhaps “bemusement” is a better word.
Answers on a postcard as to who this woman is? Anyone?
I dare say however that the A-to-Z map people (remember them?) felt the same way about Google’s first foray into cartography; similarly, Nokia probably chuckled around their Finnish boardroom table at the first announcement of Google’s Android Phone. “Google? Phones? Ho ho ho” etc, and now look. From Finnish to finished in under 5 years.
In fact, new branch-outs announced by the Chocolate Factory are frequently greeted with this kind of absolute surprise. To those who don’t follow the rumour blogs, most of Googles’ departures from their existing product range have been utterly unexpected. Often therefore an announcement that they are going into field X seems, as Douglas Adams once said, “not so much unlikely, more a sort of mismatching of concepts, like the idea of the Suez crisis popping out for a bun.”
However, the thing about Google is it’s like all tech evolution but speeded up a billion kazillion times, mainly because they have so many people, so much money, so much…. STUFF. One day, a bizarre, novel idea emerges; the next day they’ve cornered the world with it and former household brand names are relegated to the status of punchlines in nerdy jokes.
So while – in these early, naïve days – the usefulness of these Goggles will be limited to trivial, playtime features, it’s probably a good idea not to dismiss it all so quickly. One minute, it’ll be all “proof of concept” and “beta”; the next thing you know, everyone will stop buying televisions. The Sony, LG and Panasonic guys will find themselves hanging out with the Nokia, A-to-Z and Lycos dudes. At the Job Centre.
However, in the short term, expect lots of hilarious throwaway apps allowing you to put comedy face-masks on friends and imagine people with no clothes on. Sounds ok, actually.
Posted on: April 13th, 2012 by Mark H
One of our favourite bloggers eye-wear-glasses.com popped in to see us at our recent press event and to check out what we were up to with London Retro and take a look at our eco range Element. With a constant finger on the eyewear industries pulse, Eye-Wear-Glasses Founder, Rob is a seasoned pro when it comes to spotting whats new in opthalmics.
First hand experts and tough task-masters when it comes to passing the test in creating stylish, yet functional eyewear, there was a collective *phew* and a few sporadic air punches when we spotted that we’d made the cute and been added to their gallery of eyewear and sunglasses. Take a look at the feature, here.
Shop The London Retro collection, here
Posted on: April 12th, 2012 by Sarah
We couldn’t wait to share these delicious cookies with you that have been hand-crafted by the talented Georgina at Love Birds.
Designed and created especially for the London Retro press event this Wednesday, these cute little spec-shaped cookies are infused with real lemon and orange zest and we can’t WAIT to sample them! Hopefully we’ll be able to stop ourselves from chowing down on ALL of the little joy-bringers so that there are some left for the guys at Vogue who are popping in to say hello and have a gander and the new collections…
YUM.
Psst…. keep your eyes peeled for our Press Event Goody Bag give-away tomorrow and win designer glasses, cookies, manicure vouchers and much, much more!
Posted on: April 2nd, 2012 by Sarah
Lady Gaga and Sean Lennon show us how to wear retro frames
As well as the 40s being a major player in the style-games at the moment, the soulful sounds of the 50s have been making a comeback too. With the deaths of three very talented artists; Etta James, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston this year, soul music isn’t just finding its voice again, it’s becoming hugely vocal in the fashion industry too.
GD's Cowboy
There has been a plethora of celebrities going for the retro eyewear option. Lady Gaga (seen above with John Lennon’s son, Sean) really prettys up a pair of aviator frames, whilst Sean Lennon showcases his family jeans, looking timelessly handsome in a classic wayfarer style. More recently, US songwriter and singer, Raphael Saadiq has been snapped working a pair of retro spectacles into his sartorial attire very nicely.
Raphael Saadiq in mai-Tai-a-likes.
GD Mai Tai
Shop from London Retro’s new line for more retro inspired silhouettes.
Fancy trying the look yourself, without the commitment? No problem. Our FREE Home Trial allows to you pick up to 4 frames which we’ll deliver to your home or work so that you can test them out on your mates/colleagues/family/dog before you make your mind up. Personally, we’re really liking the Mai Tai for a lightweight unisex option.
Posted on: March 26th, 2012 by Sarah
We were really excited when a sneak-peek of London Retro’s new ad campaign landing in our inbox this morning. Shot on location in London’s coolest northern spots, the new collection has moved on to a more 70s inspired vibe with aviator silhouettes, tortoiseshells rounds and preppy tones of navy and red being introduced into the sartorial collection. With names such as ‘Ronnie’, ‘Suzy’, ‘Kiki’ and ‘Sherlock’ included into the 70s vibe of London Retro’s second season, we’re all set for a rather psychedelic summer in the city.
Here’s some exclusive shots from yesterday’s shoot in London.
Straight from the camera...
Shop the collection, here: http://www.glassesdirect.co.uk/londonretro/
Posted on: March 6th, 2012 by Sarah
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