London is home to a wide range of excellent boutiques stocking the most glam and iconic frames! Update your look taking your pick from among a huge array of choices that these boutiques can offer.
Spex in the City, Covent Garden, WC2
This small and friendly boutique with carefully chosen brands including top designers like Alain Mikli and Freudenhaus, Australian Roger Henley and Brits Booth & Bruce. With an amazing and superb collection of cool frames, there is a little chance that you may find a lot of them in London wearing the same kind of shades – and that’s called being exclusive! Staff at Spex in the city is skilled, friendly and very helpful when it comes to the customers deciding their pick or choosing from among their favourite models.
You get the gorgeous ultra cool sunglasses in Caplan’s expanding range of their own-brand frames.
Address: Royal Opera House, 1 Shorts Gardens, London WC2H 9AT, United Kingdom Phone: +44 20 7240 0243
Website: https://www.spexinthecity.com/ Nearest tube station: Convent Garden Station
Linda Farrow
Timeless, quality design along with brands like Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Balenciaga, Sonia Rykiel, etc. Linda Farrow is well known for collaborating with some of the finest and world’s best designers – Jeremy Scott, Phillip Lim, Dries van Noten.
Bringing together an archive of vintage sunglasses teamed with luxurious fine jewellery collection, Linda Farrow is known as one of the best in London’s scene when it comes to sunglasses and fashion. Don’t miss it!
Address: 91 Mount St, London W1K 2SU, United Kingdom Phone: +44 20 7499 6336
Website: http://uk.lindafarrow.com/ Nearest tube station: Green Park/ Bond Street
Cutler and Gross Vintage
This top British luxury eyewear brand store founded in late 60s by Graham Cutler and Tony Gross. They have been creating sunglasses and best optical frames that promise excellent quality and creativity. This brand has been synonymous with the quintessential British style, craftsmanship and innovation. Their high quality frames are designed in London (headquarters in Marylebone) and made in Italy (factory in Domegge di Cadore). Cutler and Gross are a superb blend of bold design and handcrafted design. Their ‘vintage’ boutique in Knightsbridge is counted among the best sunglasses boutiques in London.
Address: 16 Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7QL, United Kingdom Phone: +44 20 7581 2250
Website: https://www.cutlerandgross.com/ Nearest tube station: Hyde Park Corner
General Eyewear, NW1
Looks much like a museum and selling from a range of carefully crafted frames and top sunglasses from 1750 to 1995, General Eyewear in London is worth a visit. They are a well established optical showroom specialising in quality unused vintage eyewear from the 1950 onwards
At General Eyewear, they have also been featuring famous brands like Versace, Christian Lacroix, Ray Ban, Persol Carrera, Cazal, Boeing Carrera, Moschino and so on. In a nutshell, they have been stocking the world’s most stylish brands and historical catwalk pieces that are second to none; designer collaborations with limited edition and the made-to-order sunglasses available in different colours and effects. General Eyewear are designed in Camden studio and handcrafted by the master spectacle makers in Britain.
Address: Stable Market, Arch 67,The Stables Market, Chalk Farm Rd, London NW1 8AH, United Kingdom Phone: +44 20 7428 0123
Website: http://www.generaleyewear.com/ Nearest tube station: Chalk farm/ Camden Town
Oliver Goldsmith, W11
One of the very few companies that can still make perfect glasses by hand as creating them in this way has been their passion. Founded in 1926 by P. Oliver Goldsmith and known for producing one of the most iconic and historic sunglass collections and timeless designs, most of the frames they have designed here have contributed to the formation of eyewear history.
Address: 15 All Saints Rd, London W11 1HA, United Kingdom Phone: +44 20 7460 0844
Website: http://www.olivergoldsmith.com/ Nearest tube station: Ladbroke Grove/ Westbourne Park
Taylor Morris Eyewear
Combining together the British elegance and Hollywood glamour, it has been drawing its inspiration from many fashion and cultural icons like J.F. Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, James Dean, Steve McQueen, Monroe and so on. Hugo and Charlie have been passionate about creating an eyewear design that seeks inspiration from the latest trends and continuously rework and modernise to give your sunglasses that perfection, attitude or element it requires.
Catering to the requirements of today’s discerning eyewear collectors and enthusiasts and typically anyone that shares the passion, they have been known for incorporating the best of the British design!
Phone: +44 (0) 207 235 7830 Website: http://taylormorriseyewear.com/
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