Brad Pitt in the frame as older men embrace ‘hot professor’ glasses

‘Lafe life’ male celebrities are turning the need for spectacles into a style statement as they refuse to disappear into fashion invisibility

A heart-throb for more than 40 years, Brad Pitt is no doubt used to people looking at him. But this week, that gaze was distracted by a new addition to his face – aviator-style glasses.

Worn to watch the tennis at Roland Garros and with a pink trenchcoat when out for dinner in Paris, these glasses are stylisedand retro, and perhaps – until recently, anyway – more typically worn by younger men. That’s changed recently – they’re now becoming central to a makeover for men who are entering their ‘late life’ era, but aren’t willing to submit to the fashion invisibility associated with ageing.