SITE OF THE WEEK - Star Sunglasses - Online Retail -

Star Sunglasses – Great site with large selection of shades for your viewing pleasure. Shades and glasses from Bulgari, Burberry, Ferragamo, Gucci, Valentino and others

ONLINE RETAIL - Rated 1 to 4 on our "Shade Scale" (about ratings)

Ashford – An online outlet of sorts with a great selection of top italian names, worth a look

BLUEFLY – Great selection shades at heavily discounted prices

EX Boutique – Good selection of luxury shades from Gucci, La Perla, Miu Miu, Chanel, Boucheron and others

Giarre – Good Italian site with lots of the best brands, in English

Go Optic – MASSIVE selection of frames and sunglasses from almost every designer one can muster

Italian Sunglasses – Wonderful site with all top names and a few smaller ones like Alain Mikli sunglasses, Romeo Gigle sunglasses, Yves Saint Laurent sunglasses and more

Miotti – Sunglasses from Christian Dior, Gucci, Chanel, Versace, Miotti is a great place to track down hard to find frames

Star Sunglasses – Shades and glasses from Bulgari, Burberry, Ferragamo, Gucci, Valentino and others

Sunglasses Portal – Spectacular site with lots of Ray-Ban, Roberto Cavalli, Versace, Givenchy, Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs sunglasses etc.

4 Eyes Online – Chanel, Cartier, Versace, smaller site but great inventory

A Pair of Shades – Some good brand names, also Vera Wang glasses, and some other regular frames too, good stuff.

Amazing Shades – Amazing selection, prices aren't that amazing :-) but definitely worth a look is you're trying to track down something special.

Bergdorf Goodman – Good selection of top notch shades

Contact Lens Center – Some obscure brands with all the favorites too

The Eye Doctor – Long list of brands from all walks of shades, some of the harder finds are Vera Wang sunglasses, Harley Davidson, Versace, Via Spiga, Adrienne Vittadini and others

Eyeglasses 123 – Versace sunglasses, Gucci sunglasses, Marc Jacobs sunglasses, and more

Eye Save – Great site, lots of shades from makers like Gucci, Fendi, Bolle, Serengeti, Dior and Ray-Ban!

Fashion Optical – Good selection of premium eyewear from Dior, Versace, Ray-
Ban, Ralph Lauren and others.

Frames Direct – Fun place to track down some hard to find shades and glasses from Fendi, Armani, Christian Dior and a bunch of other desired frame makers that we know and respect

Iris Spectacles – British site with some nice shades, smaller selection, but they have a cool tool where you can see a person wearing a pair of your choice

Shade City – Armani, Gucci, Prada, Nine West, Versace, Miu Miu, and other large sunglass manufacturers

Spex 4 Less – British site with great selection of frames from some of the usual suspects

Style Drops – Great selection of shades from many of the designers we know and love

Sunglasses UK – Good British site, some great brands like Givenchy, Dior, D&G, Prada and others, too bad the pound reigns supreme

Ultimate Shades – The list of brand names here is very complete and extensive, great inventory, definitely worth a look.

Z Best Sunglasses – Smaller site with many of the major Italian brands

My Eyes – British site with a small but decent selection of names like YSL, Gucci, and Roberto Cavali eyewear

Swish Eyewear – A few brands, some hard to find shades, some that lack pictures, but if you have a style number its fine

Vision Discount – Some good shades, smaller selection of top names, you can search by style though which is a fun way to do it, worth a look

INTERNATIONAL - Italian Sunglasses from Italian retailers

Miotti – GREAT SITE!!! Included it twice because, more than one member of our staff has shopped there!

Eyes Online – Great Italian site, some hard to find specs, from Gucci, Prada, Valentino and others (translated)

Occhialeria – Good Italian site, also with Gucci sunglasses, Alain Mikli sunglasses, Cavali sunglassses, Vivienne Westwood sunglasses and more (translated)

Sunglas – Good site if you speak German! --NOT TRANSLATED--

BOOKS

Chanel – The Coutiere At Work

The House of Gucci– A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

Manolo Blahnik Drawings – One of my personal favorites!!

Spectacles & Sunglasses – Good book about different kinds of shades

Sunglasses – Book all about sunglasses

SHADE RATING SCALE

- Spectacular site with incredible inventory and the lay out is user friendly and functional

- Great site with top-notch inventory and its also user friendly

- Good site with strong inventory and a nice layout

-Mediocre site offering little in the way of inventory or content, not user friendly