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School children across the world dread the day when they’re told that they have to wear glasses. But are their concerns warranted? Or have the humble spectacles come full-circle and been reclaimed by the fashion elite as the accessory du jour?The idea that glasses are just for geeks has been around for a long time. [...]

Laing wanted to make high fashion that was tacitly Canadian. “One of the things I’m interested in is the idea of a national aesthetic, ” he said, a couple of months after the dress was shown to critical acclaim at New York’s Milk Studios. “Why don’t we know what that is?” Unlike Sweden or France, [...]