I’ve been cursed with dangerous eye sight since I used to be somewhat child. I bear in mind vividly the day that my dad, an optometrist, gave me the dangerous information that I’d have to start out carrying glasses. I used to be simply 10-years-old, however already, vogue and picture had been every little thing to me; I hated the concept I’d have to start out carrying frames full-time. I felt glasses made folks look deeply uncool and nerdy. And I used to be not a geek! I listened to Britney Spears, worshiped Vogue and Trend Tv, and delighted in taking daring vogue dangers (like carrying leg heaters as bracelets). Principally, I believed I used to be the peak of cool—and my new glasses had been about to break all of that.

Throughout that first go to to my dad’s workplace, I sulked across the room as he compelled me to select a pair of frames. All of them seemed hideous to me. Once we lastly landed on a modern, black rectangular pair, they went on to gather mud on my nightstand; I’d relatively squint to see than put on these issues, I believed to myself. This ambivalent angle continued effectively into my teenagers. As my eye sight continued to worsen—to the purpose the place I fairly actually couldn’t see with out glasses or contacts—I started sporting the latter choice, gleefully jabbing my eye with lenses each single morning, as a result of it meant I may nonetheless go frames-free.

Even now, in my early 30s, I nonetheless resist carrying glasses. Whereas I typically put them on at house, I hardly ever sport them out in public. My viewpoint on frames is starting to shift, although—largely, as a result of the runways (and celebrities) at the moment are embracing them. Miu Miu’s spring 2024 present, for one, received me interested by how glasses will be fashionable; Miuccia Prada confirmed her elevated athletic seems with big optical frames, and I felt the accent added a cool sophistication to the gathering. Ditto for Kenzo, which additionally opened its present with huge, black frames.

I questioned: If glasses are catwalk-worthy, absolutely I can undertake them into my look?