Robert Roope, our founder and designer, has personally trained our bespoke AI to deliver tailored frame recommendations based on his extensive career fitting and designing eyewear. You can also get recommendations for friends or family, by simply uploading a photo to see what Robert would suggest for them. Try Robert Recommends and enjoy 15% off your perfect frames* during the launch month celebration with code: FindYourFrame Our customers have always loved being personally fitted for eyewear by Robert. He has been the optician to celebrities and discerning individuals for nearly 60 yea ..read more

Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser | Expanding on footage of Monk’s 1967 tour shot by Christian Blackwood, Charlotte Zwering (Gimme Shelter) has created the definitive filmic portrait of the master bop pianist-composer. This captivating film digs deeper into the life of the famously eccentric pianist-composer. Watch for free on Vimeo.   Chasing Trane | CHASING TRANE is the definitive documentary film about an outside-the-box thinker with extraordinary talent whose boundary-shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world. This smart, passionate ..read more

Find some calm in amongst the strangeness of current times by exploring the world in a whole new way. Below, we share a collection of our favourite things to do online, from exploring our favourite museums online, or seeing Tate Modern’s new Andy Warhol exhibition, to live cinema viewings with the directors present online, to taking up an Ivy League University’s online course (for free!). Here is our guide for a mind-expanding Easter weekend at home. Let us know how you’re managing. Share good ideas with us.   ONLINE COURSES images from LIFE Magazine archives 1950s   Learn a la ..read more

Pedro Pascal, wears Black Eyewear Bailey.  "Every single guy would look better in Pedro Pascal's glasses", declared GQ magazine. The internet's reigning daddy and The Last of Us star makes a viral moment of every single piece of menswear imaginable, but is especially known for his frames.  "Of course, there is much discourse on Pascal's choice in glasses. “Neeeeed to know what glasses Pedro Pascal was wearing at the [Academy Awards]” squealed one Reddit user early this year. The internet knew instantly: Black Eyewear's Bailey frames, an independent dealer in London that pay ..read more

All hail the mighty Bella, wearing Black Eyewear's Harper glasses. One of the brightest talents on screen. We're in awe of their talent. “I have always have been quite shy,” they say. “But in creative spaces, whenever I’ve played a different character – and am around people who are older than me – that’s when I’m not shy.” - @bellaramsey We believe glasses can give you that power, to play with all the facets of your identity. Play all the characters you want to inhabit. Or just be yourself. Whoever that may be.   Our Harper frames are dedicated to Jazz Great Toni Harper, singer. She p ..read more

They were very popular during the 1950s and 1960s, especially in the USA.  They were first manufactured by Shuron Ltd in 1947 under the “Ronsir” brand and quickly emulated by various other manufacturers. The design became the most common style of eyewear throughout the 1950s and the early 1960s before it was surpassed in popularity by solid plastic styles. Browlines enjoyed a renaissance in the 1980s before returning to popularity with the rise of retro style and the hipster subculture. @litaflita wears our ROY Glasses in Tan BLACK EYEWEAR METAL COMBINATION FRAMES MILT This is t ..read more

We had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Saxophonist Alex Hitchcock in London to chat all things jazz and style.   Saxophonist Alex Hitchcock is an immediately distinctive improviser and a leading voice on his instrument in the UK. An Ivor Novello-nominated composer, his innovative collaborations have confirmed his growing international reputation as an instigator and catalyst for captivating musical encounters that 'continually push the envelope a little further' (Jazzmania BE). Alex wears Adler in Yellow Cloud. Portrait by Chaz Langley   Alex wears&n ..read more

Maria wears Shirley in Yellow (left) and Ziggy in Cream (right). The musician’s biggest influence growing up was her mother, a dance teacher, whose passion for ballet and contemporary dance inspired Maria to start piano lessons when she was a child. But by her early teens she’d discovered jazz “and that became an obsession,” she says. She started listening to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, then expanded out to Seventies prog (Pink Floyd) and folk (Nick Drake) – sounds which were at odds with the strict classical world. “I wanted to be a reb ..read more

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    Black Eyewear designs capture the spirit of the 1950s. This reverence for the past comes with a unique challenge: today’s faces are distinctively bigger than 70 years ago.  Browse our LARGE COLLECTION   Miles in Dark Tortoiseshell Sweets in Green Transparent Cannonball in Two Tone Grey Courtney in Matt Black   For economic reasons, the manufacture of eyewear has focused on small and medium-sized frames and sunglasses. This has left a gap in the availability of larger sizes for an ever-growing number of people who suit larger  ..read more