There is a particular kind of attention that fashion gives to eyewear. Not the attention given to a bag or a shoe, categories where the object can exist quite comfortably as the point. Frames require a face. They answer to one. And so when we ask who is wearing glasses well, we are really asking something more specific: whose visual intelligence is consistently worth tracking? Whose relationship with a frame — whether independent optical, vintage-find cat-eye, or a considered collaboration — tells us something useful about where the conversation is going?
Every so often, we compile this list. Not trends.The voices whose personal grammar of dressing, and specifically whose instinct with eyewear, we have been quietly studying.
Emma Chamberlain @emmachamberlain
The case for Chamberlain is not the reach, not the Gen Z cultural footprint. It is the design thinking and the fact that she has now produced more considered eyewear work than many people twice her age.
Her two collaborations with Warby Parker are the clearest document of this. The first, in 2023, revisited three of her longtime favourite styles — the Lonnie, the Durand, and the Braswell — in new seasonal colourways. The second, in 2024, went further: four original silhouettes named after family members (Johnny, Patty, Emma, Frances), each with a stated design logic. The collection drew from the 1960s and 1990s, with shapes ranging from an oversized shield to a small rounded oval.
She had been wearing Warby Parker frames since she was 14. That kind of genuine history with a brand is relatively rare in influencer collaborations, and it shows in the results.
Chamberlain has done something rare: she made glasses feel like the most interesting thing in the outfit.
Wisdom Kaye @wisdm
The only man on this list, and included not as a gesture but because his frame choices are genuinely unusual in the menswear conversation. IMG-signed, a Time 100 Creators honoree, and one of the most-followed menswear voices on the internet, Kaye gravitates toward eyewear that functions as structural costume elements: futuristic shields, angular geometric frames, minimalist metallics.
In a recent Interview Magazine shoot, he wore sunglasses from his own personal archive — labelled simply "Wisdom's Own."
He does not wear sunglasses as an afterthought. They are part of the outfit's logic, the same way a lapel choice or a proportion decision is. The shapes he reaches for — architectural, often dark, frequently oversized — push against the classic aviator default that has dominated menswear eyewear for decades.
For eyewear brands thinking about what male style leadership looks like when it starts from a more ambitious place, Kaye is a useful and current document.
Tamu McPherson @tamumcpherson
The Milan-based former editor-in-chief of Grazia.it and founder of All The Pretty Birds is, in eyewear terms, the most important figure on this list. Not because she follows trends in frames but because her relationship with glasses is philosophically distinct from everyone else here.
McPherson has built a collection. Not a wardrobe of sunglasses; a genuine collection. Aviators. Oversized shapes. Retro frames. Funky readers. Season after season, photographed at fashion weeks across Milan, Paris, and New York, the frame is always considered. Never accidental. Never the same shape twice in a row. The eyewear is doing the same work her colour and pattern choices do — it is part of the argument her appearance is making.
She has described her fashion philosophy as centred on the joy in dressing, approaching style with playfulness. For McPherson, frames are not restraint. They are expression. She has never defaulted to a house style or a season's correct shape. That is the distinction we keep returning to.
Leia Sfez @leiasfez
The Parisian creative consultant has a million followers and a feed that has not adjusted for the audience. Sfez — co-founder of The Oblist, creative director for brands in real life runs her Instagram as something closer to a personal archive than a content strategy.
What makes her relevant here is proportion. She gravitates toward sleek black frames, refined cat-eyes, and modern oversized shapes. The frame carries weight precisely because nothing else is competing. Minimalist dressing, tonal neutrals, the occasional 70s-inflected silhouette — against all of it, the eyewear becomes the defining note rather than an accessory. She wears glasses the way a Parisienne wears a scarf: as something assumed rather than announced.
For the eyewear reader, she functions as a control variable. The frames register because the rest is quiet.
Beatrice Gutu @beatrice.gutu
The Germany-based stylist, art director, and founder. Her personal style is built on contrasts — black and white, oversized and tailored, vintage and new and her approach to frames mirrors that logic precisely.
She is a collector of fashion archive pieces, which extends to how she moves through frame shapes. She is drawn to eyewear that carries precedent: shapes with accumulated meaning, not trend-of-the-season positioning.
As a stylist and art director, Gutu works with frames the way she works with garments — reading them for what they communicate structurally, not just aesthetically. The distinction between those two things matters to her. It shows.
Aimee Song @aimeesong
Song of Style launched in 2008 and has never really stopped being relevant which is a harder thing to sustain than it sounds. Song has published two books, launched her own clothing line, and built a following that tracks what she wears with genuine attention.
Her eyewear sensibility sits at the intersection of volume and refinement. She often opts for bold rectangular shapes and oversized frames.
She occupies a position that is harder to hold than it looks: effortlessly considered without making the consideration visible. The frames are part of that management. They signal a point of view without announcing one.
Chriselle Lim @chrisellelim
One of the original fashion bloggers, her platform launched in 2008 and still, in 2026, operating at meaningful scale. Lim is now the founder and creative director of fragrance brand Phlur, board member of Fashion Trust US.
Eyewear has been a consistent thread throughout. She was an early adopter of oversized frames — wearing them before the silhouette became the dominant choice for editorial-minded women.
She wears glasses with the ease that comes from having figured it out some time ago. The frames do not feel new. They feel correct.
Christie Tyler @christietyler
Also known as NYCBambi, Christie Tyler is a fashion school graduate whose neutrals-heavy wardrobe — black, white, beige, warm tones, nothing that fights itself — turns accessories into load-bearing elements. She has said it directly: since her outfits are so neutral and simple, she dresses them up with accessories, and sunglasses are consistently part of that equation.
Cat-eye shapes appear frequently. Her collaboration with Black Eyewear on the Billie sunglasses is a case in point — clean, slightly retro, unshowy. The kind of frame that earns its place without announcing itself. She treats eyewear as a design decision within a larger system, not a finishing touch.
Alison Toby @alisontoby
Belgian-born, Paris-based, and operating with a refined feminine aesthetic that returns repeatedly to 1960s elegance — Alison Toby has built a loyal following because her frame of reference is unusually specific.
Structured coats, wide-leg tailored trousers, soft cashmere, clean lines: a wardrobe in which the eyewear has to do significant visual work if it is going to register at all.
It does. She has been explicit about it: accessories make the whole outfit. Sunglasses appear consistently in her content — often oversized, often in tones that sit within her bone-and-caramel palette.
The 1960s reference she returns to is, among other things, a frame story. Cat-eye silhouettes, geometric acetates, thin metal bridges these shapes belong to that decade. Toby wears frames that feel like they belong to the clothes, not appended to them.
The Common Thread
This is an editorial position, not a shopping guide. What we are tracking across these nine accounts is a set of distinct approaches to what eyewear can do when treated with genuine seriousness — whether that is the considered restraint of Leia Sfez, the design ambition of Emma Chamberlain, the colour philosophy of Tamu McPherson, or the architectural logic of Wisdom Kaye.
Across all of them, a few things hold. Eyewear is chosen deliberately. The frame conversation is ongoing, not seasonal. And none of them treat a pair of glasses as the thing you reach for last.
FAQ
Which fashion influencers are known for wearing glasses well?
We Love Glasses tracks nine fashion voices with a genuinely considered relationship to eyewear: Emma Chamberlain, Wisdom Kaye, Tamu McPherson, Leia Sfez, Beatrice Gutu, Aimee Song, Chriselle Lim, Christie Tyler, and Alison Toby. What distinguishes them is not simply that they wear frames — it is that each has developed a specific, consistent visual logic around how they choose and wear them.
What eyewear brands have fashion influencers collaborated with?
The collaborations covered in this edit include Emma Chamberlain with Warby Parker and Crap Eyewear, Christie Tyler with Black Eyewear on the Billie sunglasses, and both Aimee Song and Chriselle Lim with Gentle Monster. These partnerships are notable because they involve independent eyewear brands with strong design identities — not licensing deals — which is why the results tend to reflect the collaborator's actual taste.
Who is Tamu McPherson and why does she matter for eyewear?
Tamu McPherson is the Milan-based founder of All The Pretty Birds and former editor-in-chief of Grazia.it, and she is the most important figure in this edit in eyewear terms because she has built a genuine collection of frames over years — not a wardrobe, a collection — spanning aviators, oversized shapes, retro frames, and readers. Her approach is philosophically distinct from most people on this list: for McPherson, frames are not restraint but expression, and she has never defaulted to a single house style or seasonal shape.
Are there any male fashion influencers known for interesting eyewear choices?
Wisdom Kaye is the standout example in this space — an IMG-signed Nigerian-American model and Time 100 Creators honoree who treats eyewear as a structural costume element rather than a finishing touch, gravitating toward futuristic shields, angular geometric frames, and minimalist metallics. His approach pushes against the classic aviator default that has dominated menswear eyewear for decades and offers a genuinely useful reference point for eyewear brands thinking about male style leadership.
What frame styles do the fashion voices in this edit tend to wear?
Across the nine people in this edit, oversized frames, cat-eye silhouettes, geometric acetates, and angular shapes appear most consistently — but the more useful observation is that each person has a distinct frame logic rather than a shared aesthetic. Tamu McPherson rotates across aviators, retro shapes, and bold readers; Wisdom Kaye reaches for architectural and futuristic silhouettes; Alison Toby returns consistently to 1960s-era cat-eyes and thin metal bridges; Emma Chamberlain has designed shields and rounded ovals.