Take all this with a grain of salt because my patients are mostly geriatric and not really concerned with trends, so I don’t exactly have my finger on the pulse of what’s hot, but I do pay attention to the glasses I see people wearing on social media.

I agree with the rounder metal frames being in, especially oversized round and octagon styles, for younger folks. I actually sold several retro men’s browline frames last month, so I wonder if nerd-chic is coming back in too.

Based on social media and requests from our (few) Gen Z/younger Millennial patients, big weird geometric shapes are in. If you peruse the cheap online opticals like Zeeloool, Voogueme, etc., they carry all kinds of gigantic lens frames in crazy shapes. Think giant round lenses, octagons, exaggerated cat-eyes, etc.. There are frames on these sites where one lens is square and the other is round. And if you dare scroll through Tiktok, you’ll see TONS of people wearing these frames. And they also have wild colors like neon green. I actually committed a crime against opticianry and ordered some of the frames for myself because they are cheap and fun.) You can actually get some of these exact same frames from New York Eye from their Enhance and Jubilee collections. People often post on Opticians on Facebook about patients bringing in these crazy frames to have new lenses put in.

1980s styles are going to be popular, I suspect. Zyloware has a new Halston line and they are very 1980s.

I have had a lot of people ask for the Pair eyewear frames with the magnetic fronts. As far as I know, there is nothing like this on the market that is wholesale for opticians to buy. I also committed a sin and got myself a pair of these and a bunch of fun magnetic fronts. They’re really cool, and I hope someone makes a line that opticians can carry.

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