We’ve always been up on our Ray-Ban aviators – they’re no nonsense and mean looking and say don’t mess with us! And we like that. But last year it was the Ray-Ban Wayfarer that was all the rave (pardon the pun). The facial furniture of choice for the likes of Agyness Deyn, originals and look-alikes in day-glo colours were seen on dancefloors, most notably the launch of Heineken Green Room at Cloth & Clef. This year Ray-Ban looks set to unleash another range of fashion-forward sunnies.

This Spring and Summer 2009, Ray-Ban, turns its focus to solid and two-tone coloured acetate models and titanium frames with lashings of style and vintage flair.

Cats 5000
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Ray-Ban knows that. Sticking to its design guns, this year it reissues the fames Cats model for men and women. The Cats 5000 injection-moulded acetate frame with rounded teardrop lenses and double-bridge are big pimpin’ and would look the bomb on a playa or geek. In 11 different shades, including the pairing of green lenses with classic shiny black and a bunch of newer combos like deep red, dark purple and burgundy, and the tortoiseshell-style Havana.
Most likely to be worn by Jay-Z, Napoleon Dynamite or Johnny Knoxville.

Cats 1000
The feminine “Cats 1000” features the characteristic elongated shape with those pointy upturns on either side kind of like what you’re agogo going mini-wearing auntie might have worn back in the days Bukit Bintang was swinging. Bearing all the hallmarks of the ironic hipster chick, we love the colour choices with the to-die-for lilac with pink silver mirrored lenses being our hands-down fave.
Most likely to be worn by Katy Perry, Gwen Stefani or Batgirl.

Jackie Ohh III
Like its namesake, the Jackie Ohh III is the kind of big round oversized injection-moulded shades Kennedy/Onassis’ missus might have made famous. Distinguished by a large and rounded vintage style, they don’t just look great, they are entirely functional too, capable of conferring look-at-me anonymity, hiding too many late nights or breakup crying jags, or as the case may be, last night’s punch up. Classic black and Havana’s tortoiseshell effect are classics, but this also comes in shiny red and shiny white for Mediterranean pizzazz.
Most likely to be worn by Nicole Richie, J-Lo, Paris Hilton and ahem, Rihanna.

RB 4086
A modern version of the oversized sunnie, the RB 4086 series would be equally at home on the face of some svelte olive-skinned Ibizan club-goer, as it would some Chanel wearing snowboarder or electro robot raver. Maybe that’s why it has an anonymous serial number for a name. The wide, wrap-around mask plays on a colour contrast between the front of the frame and the lenses, and looks the dogs bollocks in red with Havana arms and gradient brown lenses, or in white.
Most likely to be worn by Sam Sparro or Lady Gaga.

RX 5163
If you’re one of those chicks that goes weak at the knees for Clark Kent types, then beware the RX 5163 series. With a 2-tone front, with a coloured acetate top on a clear base, its elongated square shape is gonna be your kryptonite, especially when worn by tall, unconventionally handsome, lantern-jawed boys.
Most likely to be worn by pretty boys that want to be taken seriously, We Are Scientists or the male cast of Heroes.

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