London Retro launch

I was always going to be charmed by a new range of vintage-inspired glasses named after my very favourite areas of London but last night's London Retro launch came at just the right time; when I'd just found out my Barcelona buys were too fragile to convert into glasses, and when I'm bored to death of my current frames.

I love boys and girls in glasses, but my current frames are too geeky (and not in good way) to get any more than a very rare airing - if I'm wearing them, I'm usually hungover. London Retro turned Zigfrid's basement into a glasses parlour, complete with classic Brit snacks and the whole of their new range for us to try.

Cute, eh? A bit of thought had clearly gone into the names too, from the generic hipster Shoreditch to the nerdcore Portobello. London Retro very generously gave us a pair free (glasses aren't cheap so I think this might be my favourite freebie ever) and I chose the cute as a button Fitzrovia in tortoiseshell:

They also had a photobooth (another brilliant name: The Mighty Booth); here's Caroline No and I trying to do 'nerd faces'. Yeah, we didn't have to try very hard...