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Bill is responsible for sports projects at Aecom and was the architect behind the Rio de Janeiro and London Olympics. He was the lead architect for the Intuit Dome, the world’s most sustainable sports arena.
He is currently the lead designer of the 2028 Olympics, spending much of his time commuting to Los Angeles.
Bill’s incredible vision for stadium designs was the inspiration for this section of the website.
Bill’s favourite frames are by Anne et Valentin and sunglasses by Jacques Marie Mage. His glasses reflect his independence and design aesthetic.
A Primrose Hill local, Danny is the former Director of BBC Television and is now a TV and film producer. He was Executive Producer for the Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest.
He is a regular writer for The Daily Telegraph and is currently president of Access Entertainment.
Danny has an inherited eye condition called kerataconus, and is effectively blind in one eye. His glasses are therefore critical to his whole life. He has a pair of varifocals for everyday use and a dedicated pair for computer work.
Danny’s choice of eyewear has always been conservative. He now sports a pair of Lindbergs, that are light, strong and highly functional.
There are some people who I’m really proud to call regulars. Ashley is one of them.
He has a background in fashion, having started as a journalist with The Face in the early 1990s. He’s the publisher and editor-in-chief for Arena Homme +, the 400-page behemoth of a magazine, published bi-annually and acknowledged as the world’s leading men’s fashion magazine, renowned for its extensive and beautiful content
Other than being a Gooner and texting me when they’re winning, Ashley’s a good egg.
A true fashion influencer, in the original non-social-media-Gen-Z annoying way, it’s reassuring that he is a great fan and collector of Jacques Marie Mage.
Not the kind of record producer you’re thinking of.
Karen was the winner of Businesswoman Of The Year at the Music Week Women In Music Awards 2024, having founded Key Production Group in 1990, which designs and produces CDs, DVDs, vinyl records and cassettes.
Aside from her impressive creativity and business acumen, Karen is – and I mean this in a nice way – a completely mental* Spurs fan, and – another claim to fame for both of us – we went to the same primary school, although she’s obviously waaayyy younger than me. And her hair was a little less purple.
Karen has been coming to us since April 2002 when she got her first pair of Vinylize frames. The outer surface of these glasses are made from vinyl records, which is remarkably apt for her.
* some might say that all Spurs fans are a little mental. She’s more mental than most.
If anyone needed great eyesight for their passion it’s Wendy. She studied painting at Nottingham College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. She has a D.Phil. from the University of York and was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to develop her thesis: Representation, Art and the Real World.
She has taught in the fine art departments at Norwich, Manchester, Leicester and Brighton; she was formerly Head of Department of Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts.
She wears Anne et Valentin for her everyday glasses and has special glasses just for her artwork, using a beautiful Theo frame.
Nira founded Big Talk in 1995 and had a string of successes, including Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz. Her IMDb page lists over 50 producer credits. She’s won two BAFTAs, both for the excellent Black Books and nominated a further five times, including Outstanding British Film of the Year for Last Night in Soho.
She’s worked extensively with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost – I love pretty much everything that she’s done, as the general theme is a very British sophisticated silliness.
Nira favours Anne et Valentin and Thierry Lasry frames and also has some beautiful custom-made buffalo horn frames.
Twenty years ago, when Tim first came to me, he was best known as a film director, having directed the feature film Jack and Sarah, multiple episodes of Coronation Street and the final episode of Cold Feet.
In recent years he has reinvented himself as the chart-topping author of a wonderful crime series featuring Bristol-based autistic detective George Cross.
I’m a great fan of his books. Here’s a link. You won’t be sorry.
I don’t want to take all the credit, but I think it’s fairly obvious that his success only started once he started wearing my glasses. Tim was kind enough to list me in the acknowledgements of his first book, so that’s pretty much an admission.