While wearing eyewear isn’t often a stylistic choice for many of us, it can be tricky to remember when the world of celebrity throws up so many examples of stars looking great with the right set of frames.
Society has unfairly associated glasses with a ‘geeky’ connotation that can be hard to shake off for wearers, but this doesn’t have to be the case. With the right flair for style and an understanding of how different frames can suit your face shape, it’s possible for glasses to complement your appearance in a very effective way.
In the highly polished and glamorous celebrity landscape, we’re used to seeing perfect faces both with and without glasses, so it can be striking to see someone in the public eye who looks even better when appearing in frames when we’re used to seeing them without.
On top of this, it can be surprising to see celebrities counter the geeky connotations of lenses by appearing much better when rocking their eyewear.
Could these celebrities herald a new era of ‘geek chic’? Let’s take a look at 10 examples of celebrities that look better in a pair of glasses:
1. Zooey Deschanel
With her love for vintage tortoiseshell Oliver Peoples glasses, Zooey Descanel’s look has been characterized by her choice of eyewear just as much as those unmistakable bangs.
Descanel’s style was cemented during her three-time Golden Globes-nominated performances as Jess Day in New Girl, where she became the epitome of geek chic in her role as the quirky and socially enigmatic teacher.
2. Ryan Reynolds
When Hollywood superstar and avid Wrexham FC owner Ryan Reynolds is away from the silver screen, the actor appears to enjoy nothing more than settling into his Tom Ford frames to cast a highly sophisticated look that’s a far cry from his Deadpool persona.
3. Tina Fey
Another fan of the Oliver Peoples line of sleek and sophisticated eyewear, Tina Fey has become synonymous with her choice of glasses in her role as Liz Lemon in the multi-award-winning comedy series 30 Rock.
Although the star’s style can vary throughout her roles in TV and film, Fey has won many admirers with her choice of more subtle rectangular-shaped frames.
4. Samuel L Jackson
Samuel L Jackson embraced the world of eyewear in his own masterful way, opting for a more eye-catching circular range of frames to offer a look that’s in keeping with his idiosyncratic style.
Jackson has also shown that he’s adept at changing up his appearance for the right occasion, sporting more clear frames to complement summer attire and more thin-rimmed fully circular styles for formal occasions.
5. Rashida Jones
Rashida Jones is another star of film and TV that regularly adds more sophistication to her look through a great pair of thick, dark-framed glasses.
The look, which Jones adopts across different brands, adopts many of the subtle nuances that can be found in designers like Prada, and the detailing of the frames can help to accentuate different styles to suit many occasions.
6. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Although we’re not accustomed to seeing film star Joseph Gordon-Levitt in glasses so often on the big screen, the actor’s actually been wearing glasses since he starred in Third Rock from the Sun as a child.
While his current look is a far cry from his on-screen style in movies like Inception and Looper, Godron-Levitt has used his choice of frames and facial hair to create a more windswept and cultivated look in recent years.
7. Jennifer Aniston
Following her role as Rachel in Friends, Jennifer Aniston has become a global style icon in her own right. Today, Aniston can be regularly seen using different eyewear styles as the perfect way of complementing her unmistakable straight natural blonde hair and blue eyes.
While thin-rimmed aviators aren’t naturally associated with geek chic, we can see Aniston adding an extra dimension of trendiness to her look with this timeless style.
8. Tom Holland
Even Spiderman himself has the ability to bring added sophistication to his look with an impressive set of frames.
British actor Tom Holland has been regularly spotted on the red carpet sporting classy wayfarers encased in thick-styled dark frames.
9. Sandra Oh
When she’s not hot on the tale of Villanelle in Killing Eve, Sandra Oh can often be spotted wearing a striking pair of glasses.
Oh often likes to mix and match her eyewear to suit her look, opting for different colored lenses as the perfect accent to her outfit’s style.
10. Justin Timberlake
While Justin Timberlake’s history with fashion may have a double-denim colored question mark hanging over it, the musician-turned-actor has regularly struck the right chord when it comes to his choice of eyewear.
Although thicker-rimmed wayfarers have proved popular in the world of celebrity, Timberlake’s choice of rectangular, more subtle frames shows a subtle worldly-wise visage that the world of celebrity is usually too intense to embrace.
With so many celebrities proving to be highly capable of enhancing their appearance in a set of glasses, it may soon be time to make an addendum to the geeky connotations that hang over our much-loved frames. Welcome to the age of geek-chic eyewear.
