Top Glasses Trends 2026 - 2027
From catwalks in Milan, Paris and New York to Hollywood’s red carpets, the eyewear style trending this year and set to power on into the foreseeable future for is bigger, bolder, “statement” frames. At the premium end the designers you clock most often are names like Jacques Marie Mage, Cazal, Robert Le Roche, T. Henri, Akoni and Theo. While these frames can cost north of £1000, the same look can be found among the selection of well-made affordable designer brands we’ve chosen to include in our collection.
Several models stand out here. For instance, in the Ahrlo range, the unisex ARH001, ARH002, ARH003, ARH004, ARH005 and ARH006. Jimmy Choo, a fashion icon known mainly for high-end shoes, has branched out into eyewear with arresting models in both optical and sunglasses. For a taste of the unique direction he’s taken his line of eyeglasses, check out the JC5027, JC3036 and the JC5026U. Mulberry also scores highly in design and wearability with their AGML-181 sunglasses for women and VML276, a unisex frame that suits both optical and sunglasses use.
Retro or vintage frames never lose their appeal. At this corner of the market the best known brands you’ll find might be Moscot (popularised by Johnny Depp) and Cutler and Gross. They feature “bookish” styles, from round (“panto”) frames to squarish and rectangle designs, to the kind of “browline” frames you might have seen on your Sixth Form chemistry teacher. Their acetate colourways range from crystal of various shades to tortoiseshell and trad black. Here at SpecsAtHome London we’ve zeroed in on more affordable designers including (of course) RayBan — their classic RB5154, RB4260D sunnies, their 70s style RB4068, along with the RayBan Zaya 4456.
At the minimalist end of the design spectrum, one brand has carved out a well-deserved name for itself in the last couple of years — Reykjavik Eyes. Icelandic designer Gunnar Gunnarson, founder of the company, has created impossibly lightweight frames that echo classic designs in single-piece titanium frames that are both beautiful and indestructible. Favourite among the many, with proportions and shapes that suit just about every face, are the Jesper and the Alvar. Most of Gunnar’s designs are unisex, though some of the designs are really better suited to women, for instance, the Maria, Sara and Helga (the clue is in the names), and those best for men — Markus, Bjorn, and Svend.
The one quality that seems to be common among the trending styles is their nod to classic designs. The more radical designers like Face à Face, Kuboraun, and Factory900 (Yoshinori Aoyama) might offer more fashion-forward shapes, colours and sizes that capture the moment, the great majority of glasses wearers are searching for designs that will look fresh year after year. The most important element in the choice of glasses, just as it is with any personal adornment, is for it to be an expression of your personality, an extension of your character, and not one that imposes a personality on you.
