Jacqueline Onassis was renowned for leading many fashion trends, but one item truly became her signature – those paparazzi-confounding, jet-setting sunglasses. Jackie O’s favorite “bug-eye” Nina Ricci 3203 shades are not only coveted by fashionistas from Lady Gaga to model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, but are being reissued by the French fashion house and L’Amy America. Los Angeles can claim to be the vintage shades capital of the world, with specialists such as Russ Campbell’s Old Focals dressing the film industry. Also scouring yard sales and buying up “dead stock” from old optometrists around the world are the Vintage Frames Company in Montreal; Klasik in London; and Berlin’s Vintage Sunglasses: so enormous it’s become known as a sunglasses superstore. Vintage eyewear offers quality, durability and solid technology, which is why you’ll now hear the cool crowd talking of the classic shapes in reverent terms. Never before has it been so fashionable to look through old glass darkly. vintagesunglasseslondon.co.uk
