Gok Wan shared summer spectacles trends hot off the European press at an instore event last night at Queen Street Specsavers where we heard all about the massive international trend for wearing glasses when you don’t even need them…
The star of British TV hit show Look Good Naked was in New Zealand to promote Specsavers in a series of media and public appointments and to award the NZ Spectacles Wearer of the Year Award.
Gok Wan shared summer spectacles trends hot off the European press at an instore event last night at Queen Street Specsavers where we heard all about cause for wearing glasses as a fashion item.
"There’s a massive trend for people wearing glasses without needing them – Kelly Brook, Alexa Chung, myself – as a trend" said Gok. "It helps bring glasses into the mainstream and that helps bullying in schools with kids who wear glasses."
"The biggest trend is summer brights after the nudes of last year. We’re seeing lots of pinks and blues and bright statement colours."
Below: Gok wears a slim black blazer over a tee and tight trousers with black plastic frames for his Specsavers instore speech. "I hope I didn’t sounds like I was giving a lecture!" he laughed.
Gok talking about something that was this big. We’ll leave that up to your imaginations.
Below: Gok with my fabric chain necklace from Heart n Crafty, which he borrowed to illustrate a point he was making in his talk about colour and style trends.
Guests were told to "dress in our own personal style" on the invites so most stayed away from the all black uniform and threw on a few accessories.
Luckily the only glasses to get broken were of the wine variety rather than the reading variety.
Guests tried on Specsavers frames and got to take two pairs home as a gift from Specsavers.
Tee Twyford of nzgirl.
Rosie Thompson (nzgirl) and Karina Nisbet (Mango PR)
Laura Kittner and Liz Sowden
Gracie Stewart and Natalie Cosgrave
LuLu Wilcox of New Idea
Nicki McClintock and Rachel Goodchild, both wearing Nicki’s plus-size clothing label NickiMcClintock.co.nz
Rachel and Megan meeting Gok, who was just as charming in person as his TV persona, very tall, and had the whitest teeth we’ve ever seen.
Stay tuned as we’ll be bringing you more on Gok’s trends tips and our interview with Gok.
By Megan Robinson, 5 August 2010.
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