We wanted it discreet yesterday … We now want it more XXL than ever. This accessory with multiple shots today allows women to assume themselves. Zoom on his fashion ascent.
Office SIREN,, Workwear… The fashion archetypes and the trends of recent years have unearthed him of the abyss of the Modosphere to put it in the spotlight and give it the light that he has always deserved. Usually reserved for medical use, it now becomes a full -fledged fashion accessory. More than a style affair, it is also indicative of societal progress and the emancipation of women.
Today wooded with pride by many female personalities, it has long been delicated, mocked, sometimes associated with a stuck intellectual figure, sometimes with an imaginary of an ultra sexualized woman arising from a male gauze Uninhibited. You just have to look at the side of pop culture to see the bad image that we had. For the Persona of the stuck intellectual, the series like Lisa’s fate,, Ugly Betty, or movies like How to marry a billionnaire have largely contributed to fueling the cliché. For that of the sexualized woman, a well -known French expression, “Woman at L *** Woman in Q ***”is enough to strengthen it. This medical accessory that has become a fatal fashion is none other than XXL mounts glasses, for an assumed side and “have you seen” good taste.
Anne GUIBRETEAU, director of SEO and merchandising at Alain Afflelouconfirms to Women’s Journal the rise of this trend. “We can see that all our customers are heading towards frames which are much more marked on the face, with lots of colors, thickness, very geometric shapes and it is much more marked than before.” The “characters” collection of the French optician, with its 13 colors available on the twenty models on the line, was born to respond to this growing interest.
If we identify the popularization of glasses with the famous signed model Miu Miuin reality, it is a more diffuse dynamic, mixing micro trends and substantive trends, which worked for their rehabilitation: “There are always many who coexist. XXL forms is a large full mass trend. In parallel, we also come back to very fine, very short geometric shapes, which reminds of this secretary type of the 2000s, but it is more a recovery of a capsule trend only for 2025 which could change next year. “ According to her, “With the XXL frame, we are in a purchase that is not at the time to follow the fashion, but for yourself (…) looking for a real accessory to dress and ensure.”
Where they were hidden before, they are fully assumed to be fully: a trend that has a little taste of revenge. Spotting glasses with maxi mounts can thus be a committed and conscious identity choice, and not only an aesthetic research: in doing so, we play on the shots, we adopt them by magnifying the line, we reclaim them and we reversed them to the envy: a well -crafted stigma turnover. (I play the secretary even sexier by adopting her style thoroughly, clothes to the glasses; I assume my stupid side with an even more imposing frame than you dare to imagine)
And if we thought that the XXL frames were reserved for mature women on the pretext that we would assert each other more with age, in reality, the specialist explains to us that demand is also very developed in their sisters a bit younger. An auspicious observation, since it means that all women, whatever their age, ensure myopes, astigmata or hyperopic in broad daylight. Among those who adopted them: Agathe Lecaron, Alexia Laroche-Joubert, Elodie Gossuin, Leïla Kaddour. So when is your turn?
