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Opti: Tomorrow’s eyewear trends today

Selin Olmsted took to the Opti stage with a well-attended presentation on eyewear design trends for 2026. Mike Hale reports
Selin Olmsted

Speaking to a packed presentation space on Saturday, February 1, at the Opti trade show in Munich, Selin Olmsted explained that she began producing an annual eyewear trends report a couple of years ago because she felt that, while general fashion trend reports did an excellent job, the eyewear featured was for the fashion runway rather than consumers.  

‘Eyewear is a huge industry, worth perhaps $150bn and increasing as we speak,’ said Olmsted. ‘So, it deserves its own trend forecast report. To do this, we started looking at the big ideas that are coming to the fore in industries like architecture, interior design, fashion, music and art.’  

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