{"id":732060,"date":"2026-06-12T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732060\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:00:09","slug":"brad-pitt-in-the-frame-as-older-men-embrace-hot-professor-glasses-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732060\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt in the frame as older men embrace \u2018hot professor\u2019 glasses | Accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heart-throb for more than 40 years, Brad Pitt<\/a> is no doubt used to people looking at him. But this week, that gaze was distracted by an addition to his face \u2013 aviator-style glasses.<\/p>\n

Worn to watch the tennis at Roland Garros and with a pink trenchcoat when out for dinner in Paris, these retro glassesare more typically worn by younger men. That\u2019s changed recently \u2013 they\u2019re now becoming central to a makeover for men entering their \u201clate life\u201d era, but who aren\u2019t willing to submit to the fashion invisibility associated with ageing.<\/p>\n

Gary Lineker, 65, wore glasses like this to appear on Louis Theroux this week. Ian Wright \u2013 a 62-year-old man with an impressive collection of glasses \u2013 wore bold aviator styles as a pundit for the first game of the World Cup. Daniel Craig is perhaps the early adopter. After appearing in the Loewe campaign in a pair of yellow-tinted glasses and jumper in 2024, the 58-year-old actor has doubled down on fashion-friendly specs. In January 2025, GQ called a pair he was wearing, similar to Pitt\u2019s, \u201chot professor glasses\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daniel Craig led the fashion pack in 2024 when he adopted the \u2018hot professor\u2019 specs. Photograph: St\u00e9phane Cardinale\/Corbis\/Getty<\/p>\n

Johnny Davis, luxury director at Esquire, has noticed the trend. He says it\u2019s a clever trick. \u201cThey\u2019re not trying to disguise the fact that they\u2019re of an age where they need to wear spectacles,\u201d he argues. \u201cThey\u2019re making them part of their look.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Pitt, they\u2019re part of a wider shift. On last year\u2019s press tour of F1<\/a>, the actor worked with Taylor McNeill,<\/a> the same stylist who creates viral looks for Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Kendrick Lamar. Pitt \u2013 her oldest client by some distance at 62 \u2013 wore 90s silk shirts, crushed velvet and even tie dye. Style commentators online dubbed it \u201cthe reinvention of Brad Pitt\u201d.<\/a> Similarly, since the Loewe campaign, Craig has leaned into<\/a> more kooky fashion choices such as a jacket with a skeleton on it from the Japanese brand Kapital, or a sweater with holes in it. Wright, meanwhile, who is often on the front row at Burberry shows and the face of Marks & Spencer, has a style that is fun but also attainable.<\/p>\n

Ian Wright has an impressive collection of glasses. Photograph: Crystal Pix\/MB Media\/Getty<\/p>\n

According to Esquire\u2019s Davis, these glasses do a lot of heavy lifting. \u201cThey say: \u2018I have taste. I pay attention. I know who I am.\u2019 You can wear a fairly simple outfit \u2013 like Lineker\u2019s dark tops \u2013 and the glasses provide the character.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is an idea that goes beyond celebrity. Jaki Baranski, a senior frame buyer at Specsavers, is familiar with shapes like the ones worn by Pitt. The retailer has a design called the Glover<\/a>, popular with men in their 50s and upwards. She sees these glasses as part of a wider trend in how men look at fashion. \u201cMen are taking a bit more time choosing a pair of frames from an aesthetic point of view,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s more in line with how someone selects a watch or trainers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like these other accessories, glasses are a shortcut. \u201cNot everyone feels comfortable wearing bright colours, fashion-forward tailoring or more extreme trends, but a pair of distinctive glasses is different,\u201d says Davis. \u201cThey allow you to signal that you still care about style without feeling as though you\u2019re trying too hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Pitt might have drafted in help from McNeill to reinvent his look, Baranski says a lot of men at this age are confident with their style. \u201cThey know who they are and what they like. These frames all work into that. It\u2019s not like they are super understated, they talk to some sort of personal expression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis agrees, and says the symbolism of the glasses can be misconstrued. \u201cPeople sometimes compare this sort of thing to the classic midlife-crisis Porsche, but I think it\u2019s almost the opposite,\u201d he says. \u201cA sports car says: \u2018Look at me.\u2019 Interesting glasses say: \u2018This is who I am.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n