Look the business: Glasses

Make like Louis Vuitton on the catwalk, and use your specs as a key fashion accessory to deliver style cachet and fashion clout. But avoid the Dame Edna look by asking an optician to help find frames that balance out your face shape and skin tone Photograph: Nicolas Khayat/Enigma/Rex Feat/Nicolas Khayat/Enigma/Rex Feat

Walk into any media or creative office and you can bet everyone will have a pair of heavy-rimmed square black arty specs. Shake things up and try the same shape in tortoise shell for a twist on this classic frame.
£75, including single-vision lenses from Specsavers Photograph: PR

Add colour to your day with these ink-blue frames (also available in red for a bolder statement).
£189, frames only, by Chanel from David Clulow Photograph: PR

Ooze retro chic with these part-black, part-clear rectangular frames – the split-colour will make these glasses less heavy on your face while the shape adds an undeniable whiff of 1950s nerd-cool.
£109, frames only, by Lozza from Dollond & Aitchison Photograph: PR

Go futuristic with these slightly zany black and clear Perspex frames that look a little goggly but are still super chic.
£295, frames only, from Auerbach & Steele Photograph: PR

Step away from the black frame crowd and go for a lighter wire pair – less harsh, less heavy and less overexposed.
£19, including standard plastic lenses, from Glasses Direct Photograph: PR