“Your fake hipster glasses are the absolute worst,” GQ magazine called one of its earlier articles. It was 2015, and the so-called hipster fashion, of which retro frames with plain glasses have become an integral part, has just set out on its way to its zenith. Less than a decade later, they are surprisingly back. Prescription glasses, whether real or fake, are once again crowning contemporary outfits. Which one is worn the most?
It’s hard to say if current fashion influencers wear it truly dioptric glasses, or with ordinary glasses. Today, this detail is no longer looked at, as glasses are becoming the number one accessory. Depending on their shape or color, they accompany several fundamental trends.
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First of all, they started appearing again on social networks oversizeretro-style glasses that were so popular with the aforementioned hipsters ten years ago. The fashion designer also played a significant role in this at the time Alessandro Michele, who famously reigned over the Gucci fashion house, bringing to the scene an androgynous figure with an introverted brooding gaze and a weakness for vintage clothing, especially 70s style. Contemporary glasses return to this design again, but connect it with current fashion trends – from elegant Parisian women to eclectic street wear to the corporate chic trend, which she greatly contributed to Miuccia Prada.
However, in addition to glasses with oversize frames, more subtle ones are also worn – with classic ones functional design of dioptric models, which you can buy in every optician. In this case, color accents become a fashionable element (of course, the popular red dominates here), which can be combined with other accessories in the outfit. When you google these narrow glasses, type the name into the search engine Bayonetta. They got it based on the computer game of the same name, in which the main character wears just this type of glasses. Style of a sexy nerd in Bayonetta glasses recently popularized especially by supermodels Bella Hadid or a model and influencer Gabrielette.
We can also find it on an imaginary moodboard Gisele Bündchenor her cameo role in the film The Devil Wears Prada. A term has been coined for this style on TikTok office siren, which deviates a bit from the related trend of corporate chic. Instead of settled sweaters and gray oversize jackets, it is coming hot girl in a vintage sheath skirt, plunging shirt, with chunky gold jewelery and the aforementioned serious glasses. The 1990s and the 2000s prove once again that they are an essentially inexhaustible source of inspiration for contemporary fashion.
