Pretty in Posh

Victoria Beckham's critically acclaimed foray into fashion continued with a presentation in an Upper East Side townhouse for New York Fashion Week earlier today. Each of the 26 looks featured the very trendy round, John Lennon sunglasses we're loving this season.

Their inclusion was particularly fitting, as the Victoria Beckham sunglasses line was relaunched on Net-A-Porter.com last week.

[Source: Style.com]

The Artist Formerly Known as Posh Does Allure

In a profile in this month's Allure, Mrs. David Beckham got nostalgic with a hodgepodge of new and old pictures documenting her life in the public eye. Included was one of her controversial Marc Jacobs advertisements, which I happened to think were great.

[Source: Allure]

I can't be certain, as the sides of the sunglasses aren't visible, but I believe she is wearing Marc Jacobs' MJ 212/S, which are available for £168 on London-Eyewear.com.

This Will Surely Dispel Those Alien Rumors

ritish tabloids are calling her Marc Jacobs campaign Teletubby-inspired, but I have to credit Victoria Beckham's ability to poke fun at herself. How often does a major fashion house's advertising make you laugh?


The sunnies themselves are reminiscent of the Chanel 5018 sunglasses popularized by first trimester Nicole Richie.

Star Spangled

poiler alert: Victoria Beckham wears her own sunglasses.



[Source: victoria-beckham.biz]

Here she is taking the kiddies on a boat ride earlier this week, wearing DvB Style Oversized Plastic Sunglasses. Shopbop.com has them for $250.

Posh Redux

promise I will take a much needed Victoria Beckham break soon, but the full text of her L.A. Times profile just became available online and I just can't help but note that she is the coolest.

"Settling in for her first sit-down interview since her soccer stud husband signed a $250-million deal in January to play with the L.A. Galaxy, she orders a glass of Champagne and asks if it would be all right if she keeps her sunglasses on."

[Source: LATimes]

Here They Are, Mr. & Mrs. America

urely you've seen their photoshoot in W already. You must have, right?

At left, Posh herself after deplaning. [Source: DailyMail.co.uk]

The Beckhams, that is. Had my own W arrived late, the postman would have had a severe talking to. It did not, and "American Idols" was all the glorious WAG-iness I had hoped for.

And what better way to herald the Becks' arrival, than by showcasing her own sunglasses (in fact, the pair she is wearing).

dVb 6 are available on ShopIntuition.com for $250.



Although, I suppose the Los Angeles Times' "Image" cover and profile does announce her 90210-ness quite nicely.

In it, she credits sunglasses as essential to her beauty regime:

“I just throw on the Chanel sunglasses, which really do, as the fashion magazines say, hide a multitude of sins.”

Viva Forever

y best girl, Victoria Beckham, was here in New York at home, sweet, Saks Fifth Avenue this week to promote her DvB style. [My best girl, you say? I dare you to disagree.]



[Source: GossipRocks]

Shopbop.com offers a selection of DvB style shades. Enjoy!

Posh & Katie Cruise Will Always Have Paris

he Paris runway shows march on and the usual suspects (see: Uncle Karl, et al) are on hand to see and be seen in the couture finery.

On Tuesday, Victoria Beckham cruised the Chanel show.


[Source: GossipRocks]

Posh in her own design DVB 8 Aviators.

Check out her collection at DVBstyle.

"Aviators will never fail to be a popular design. This oversized style has the dvb logo subtly etched on the lens."

Her good pal, Katie Holmes, is also in Paris to see the shows. She was photographed on Wednesday doing some shopping in the City of Light. Judging by her eyewear, Ms. Holmes is staying true to her designer of choice, Giorgio Armani.

[Source: KatieHolmes.com]

Giorgio Armani GA 372:
Cost: $218
Colors: Black, White, Tortoise
Retailer: SunglassesItaly

Sunglasses were even on the runway! Jean Paul Gautier's show featured this green pair. I wonder what couture shades go for and what sunglasses have to do with religious iconography, but what do I know?

[Source: Vogue.co.uk]

Ho Ho Ho

ike all best friends, Katie Holmes and Victoria Beckham share. Here, Katie Holmes was photographed doing some last minute shopping wearing her British BFF's sunglasses line, DVB Style.

[Source: KatieHolmes.com]

Check out the six-sided star, Posh's logo. The not-available-in-stores pair she is wearing is the DVB 3:

"Inspired by the grace and femininity of the Dolce Vita era this classic pair can be worn at anytime, anywhere with anything."

Prices and retail locations are not yet listed for Ms. Beckham's sunglasses. You can, however, check out the rest of the line at DVBStyle.com. Don't miss her personal mobile phone photos, she is such a fantastic chav.

Forget New Years' Resolutions, get excited for January '07 for Ms. Beckham's sunglasses launch.

This Week in DG

hree of Hollywood's hottest took their Dolce and Gabbana eyewear, well, everywhere this week.

Jessica Alba is currently on location in Vancouver, where the sequel to Fantastic Four is filming. This weekend, she was photographed offset with her puppy and her producer boyfriend, Cash Warren.

[Source: Popsugar]

I'm glad she isn't neglecting her eyes, even in what looks like a chilly Canadian afternoon. Here, Ms. Alba is wearing luxurious open-temple Dolce & Gabbana 6007B sunglasses.

Cost: $224
Colors: Black, Green, Blue, Red, Brown, Tortoise
Retailer: SunglassesItaly

A hemisphere away, Angelina Jolie also shielded herself from the sun's rays in Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses. As reported earlier this week, Ms. Jolie is in India to film A Mighty Heart, which is based on the memoirs of Mariane Pearl, the widow of slain journalist Daniel Pearl.

[Source: AngelinaWeb.org]

Wearing Dolce & Gabbana 6006B's, she is just a model number away from Ms. Alba. Their logo is quite small, but still flashy. The more I see of these shades, the more I like them. Well played, Ms. Jolie, well played.

At right, she was also sporting them alongside her better half, Brad Pitt, on the rooftop of the Taj Lake Palace hotel in Udaipur, India.
[Source: People]

Cost: $202
Colors: Red, Black, Tortoise, White, Yellow, Green, Pink, Beige
Retailer: SunglassesItaly

Returning stateside, Katie Holmes completes the D&G trifecta. On Saturday, she was photographed shopping at Barney's. I can't wait until I'm famous, so I can cruise department stores in my sunglasses.

[Source: GossipRocks]

In addition to her black nail polish (which I was a bit surprised to see gracing the fingers of the future Mrs. Tom Cruise), Ms. Holmes is wearing the D & G 3003 model. If this look seems familiar, its because she wore it to the Chanel runway show with Victoria Beckham.
Cost: $141
Colors: Purple, Beige, Striated Blue, Dark Havana, Black (as seen here)
Retailer: SunglassesItaly


Three is a trend. Dolce and Gabbana's fashionable eyewear is in style in Hollywood and across the globe, it seems.

Changing of the (Police) Guard

ondon's Daily Mail reported today that David Beckham was dropped as the face of Police Sunglasses last night. The former England football captain has been replaced by Antonio Banderas.

"Sources at Police - which has been paying Beckham £1 million a year for the past six years - said he was 'less of a commodity' after the World Cup.

"The source at Police added: 'Antonio was seen as more of an alpha male. The brand was also keen to have a personality which meant more to US audiences.'

"'There is no doubt that Beckham has done a lot for Police but it quickly become obvious after the World Cup that he was going to become less of a commodity.'"

[Source: Daily Mail]

Below right, Mr. Beckham wears the Police 8005:
Cost: $143
Colors: Blue
Retailer: SunglassesItaly.com

While I am sorry for Mr. Beckham's loss, I look forward to seeing Mr. Banderas' campaign. Police sunglasses are pretty awesome though -- their Old English "p" logo is totally Flashy Shades.

Faux Pas?

s nearly every blog on the planet has reported, FlashyShades included [See: Paris Fashion Week: Chanel Spring/Summer 2007], Katie Holmes and Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham have been cruising around the City of Light, (emaciated) arm in (emaciated) arm.

After posting a photograph of their appearance at Friday's Chanel runway show, I continued to surf the world wide web to identify which shades Ms. Holmes wore.

Who knew her sunglassess would be so easily identifiable? My love for the internet grows stronger with each passing day.

[Source: KatieHolmes.com; What a site!]

Ms. Holmes is wearing the D & G 3003 model:
Cost: $117 - $138
Colors: Striated Blue, Dark Havana, Black (as seen here)
Retailer: Otticanet.com


In the words of my roommate, "They are so dark and pretty. I sweat them."

Pretty, yes. But D & G? To the Chanel show? What would Karl say?

[Ms. Beckham, a sunglasses lover and designer, is often very difficult to pin down. She often wears shades of her own design -- look for the star logo -- which are not available online and have had only two very limited UK-based offerings. Here, her razor-sharp bob covered any logo or tell-tale markings.]

Paris Fashion Week: Chanel Spring/Summer 2007

ary-Kate Olsen will not be remembered as having worn the stupidest sunglasses for Paris Fashion Week [See: Uhhhh.... MK?], if Karl Lagerfeld has anything to say about it. With Friday's Chanel show, the designer paraded high hemlines, ponytails, garments with pill- and tablet-embellishments, and two-tone shades down the catwalk.

But one pair of sunglasses was shown on the runway: curve-armed frames with half-opaque, half-translucent lenses . Questionable as the shades were, they were far superior to the clear plastic platforms Mr. Lagerfeld was trying to sell us.

[Source: Vogue.co.uk]

Though these sunglasses may look silly, they (and other moderately-priced accessories) are serious profit heavy-weights for the fashion house. Mr. Lagerfeld advised customers that the shades are available, but to act quickly:

"The models carried the handbags and wore the oversized sunglasses that are all important for profit margins at luxury goods houses.

'I don't show anything that is not for sale,' said the 68-year-old Lagerfeld.

'Whatever you seen on the Chanel runway you can have it in the show. You have to go early because those things disappear quite quickly and the sales girls have a tendency to hide them for their favorite clients.'"

[Source: NYTimes]

Oh, yeah, and these two were front and center. Nice shades, ladies. Couldn't swing seats next to Anna Wintour? (Who was present, and yes, also wore sunglasses.)

[Source: KatieHolmes.com]