Eyestylist

Brilliant buds, blooms and blossoms enthusiastically await the arrival of Spring – and its palette of colours. Ideally this is also the time to refresh, enhance and colourise your personal accessories wardrobe. A great place to start is with eyewear that combines originality, fashion flair and savoir-faire. Spectacle Eyeworks in Vancouver, Canada features striking new designs in the Pussy Galore Collection. Volume and tri-colouration bring glamour to Roya – with its focused attention to detail, temple accents, and feline curves. More eyewear news from Spectacle Eyeworks at www.spec-eyeworks.com

Lafont Paris unveiled a lovely optical collection in Milan that spotlights favourite spring colours. Among the highlights is a contemporary classic design in Navy Blue with a perky red trim on the frame front. Lafont has captured with Tatiana the trend for rounded, soft shapes that are extremely flattering on the face. www.lafont.com

Cutting edge technology, smart design, and innovative materials feature in the Charmant Z collection for men. The frames are very lightweight, with distinctive detailing, and clarity of line. Charmant ZT19827 exudes refined understatement. www.charmant.com

Japanese designer Masahiro Maruyama creates frames that are fresh, articulate, and an intriguing mix of straight and round forms. The distinct design of style 0022 reflects striking colour and ingenuity. www.masahiromaruyama.com JG

The Copenhagen fair this weekend promises a hand-picked selection of some of the best eyewear to hit 2016 from Scandinavia, Europe and the USA, exhibiting in the Lokomotivvaerksted, a historic venue with an industrial ambiance. Eyestylist.com looks forward to visiting the fair for the first time.

One of several French companies taking part in the show, Jean-François Rey will show Line 1985 (pictured above, style Officer 6565), a limited edition of glasses and sunglasses, which reference iconic models launched in 1985 via original drawings. Current manufacturing processes and materials bring a new interpretation, combining quality, comfort and lightness. Produced in a limited edition of 500 pieces per style, the models are released with an anniversary book featuring archive photographs of Joëlle and Jean-François Rey. www.jfrey.fr

From Paris, young designer Caroline Abram will show her latest vibrant eyewear designs in a collection that embraces bold colour, glam shapes and luxurious material mixes.www.carolineabram.com

Locals Orgreen Optics will attend with their extensive new collection for 2016 and several exciting statement highlights including the XY and YX sunglasses. Their range of slick, flattering titanium shapes such as the Ysabel (above) provide an excellent balance of everday style with the classic quality and superior lightness of premium titanium. www.orgreen.dk

From Norway, young couple Kristen and Lars Iversen travel to Copenhagen with their 2016 campaign and a collection of modern classics combining Scandinavian aesthetics and details from industrial design, always with a fresh twist such as unique understated wood look temple details. Find out more about Karmoie at www.karmoie.com.

Copenhagen Specs takes place from 5th-6th March 2016. For more information, registration and a full list of the eyewear exhibitors, visit www.copenhagenspecs.dk CN

Strong, bold shapes feature prominently in eyewear collections, with frames that are powerful – but never overpowering. Frames are crafted into unique, edgy shapes, with key detailing, enabling the wearer to express their individual personality. Kirk & Kirk have added two new shapes to their exceptional Vivarium Collection, plus an enchanting new sterling silver and 9K gold animal pin – an English Springer Spaniel – the affectionate, loyal and gentle natured hunting dog. Huxley (above) in crystal Italian acrylic, is handmade in France, exudes style and is exceptionally lightweight. Kirk & Kirk are exhibiting in Milan, and will present both the Vivarium and The Kaleidoscope Collections. www.kirkandkirk.com

Vidal Erkohen at RVS Eyewear creates dynamic shapes, and Eli in contrasting tones of dark and sunny Havana, with blue lenses is a striking design. Eli is included in The Shining Collection – the first ever Limited Edition by RVS Eyewear. The frames contain laminated acetates to create a custom look, and the designs are the first glossy collection to be produced by RVS – matte eyewear has been their speciality since 2007. Production is limited to one hundred pieces for each colour of each model – custom crafted collector’s items. www.rvseyewear.com

“We love crazy,” says theo, – so bold, intrepid, and innovative is stunningly apparent with this brand. Belgian designer James van Vossel had a “crazy idea”, and his creative imagination resulted in theo+James:Plié.The eye-catcher in this bi-coloured frame is the end piece. Instead of attaching the end piece to the front by welding, the end piece is part of the front piece, cut from the same metal plate. First the end piece is bended to the front, then bended backwards. There are four different designs – Plooi (above) Pli, Piega and Plissado. They all mean “pleat” in Dutch, French, Italian and Portuguese respectively. More fun and imaginative frames by theo at www.theo.be

Textile designer John Robshaw has joined forces with Italian luxury eyewear brand Mondelliani to create vibrant, colourful sunglasses. As a college student, Robshaw spent a year in Rome and absorbed “la dolce vita” with great enthusiasm. So he was delighted to combine his love of textiles, and inspired Roman ingenuity into sunglasses with vitality, spirit, style and lavish colour. Devi in fresh spring green features a sunny print on the interior. See more colourful designs by Mondelliani for John Robshaw at www.mondelliani.it JG