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Typical me, typical me, typical me I started something I couldn't Finnish. Glasses pictures are stacking up in my inbox while I find myself trying to complete what I thought would be quite easy: to do consecutive posts on glasses from each of the Scandinavian countries. But now I'm not too sure. Here, Sweden's Oscar Magnuson shows off (top-to-bottom) Astrid, Bliss and Ray demonstrating more key trends for the winter. More big styles, more keyhole nose shapes; lovely coloured crystal acetates. Yesterday we had Iceland . Last week Norway and Denmark . Only Finland to go ... ??? Now one of you must know a Finnish eyewear designer - remember, we only feature the good stuff here.

Yesterday marked the passing of cycling legend Laurent Fignon from cancer. He sprang to prominence in the early 1980s as one of the youngest winners of the Tour de France and went on to become famous for losing the three week-long, 3,000km+ event by just...

It's amazing what you find out if you talk to your children. I was chatting to my son recently about school when the subject of teachers cropped up, not liking them mainly. He then proceeded to tell me a story about the day everyone took a magazine...

Continuing our Scandinavian cruise south from yesterday's Moods of Norway we arrive at ProDesign Denmark where the aviator remains a popular glasses shape, as in the 7612, above. As does, you will notice, the keyhole bridge, in all but one of the frames above.

It was a busy weekend in the Optician Editor houshold. Sunday morning started with the Evans Liphook sportive which turned out to be a lot hillier than promised. Number two son certainly didn't like the first hill that seemed to go on for ever. It...

Great combination of colour from the wooden temples and the tangerine fronts of these Amy Sacks glasses...

Next month's Silmo show in Paris means there are plenty of new glasses acoming. And new names too. Here luxury car brand Maybach releases a few pictures from its first collection of luxury Maybach Eyewear , to be previewed next month and available to consumers at the end of October. A ready-to-wear collection comprises eight sunglasses and 10 spectacle frames. Then, the Individual products can be bespoke using wood, horn, 18-carat gold... No price list as yet, but suffice to say, Maybach cars sell for £500,000+ - these will not be the kind of sunglasses you lose.