There’s something kind of iconic about celebrities who don’t always wear glasses, but when they do, it somehow becomes part of their whole identity. Whether it’s prescription frames or fashion-first eyewear, a lot of stars like Zendaya, Bella Hadid, Hailey Bieber, Billie Eilish, and Kylie Jenner have turned glasses into a recognizable style moment — even if it’s not their everyday thing.
Some of them wear glasses for vision, others purely for fashion, but the result is the same: the frames stick in your mind. From tiny wire frames to bold designer statements, eyewear has officially become a low-key signature move in celebrity style.
From thick aviator frames to minimal tiny specs, here are the celebrities who are making glasses part of their signature look..
1. Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish didn’t just hop on the glasses trend…she basically made it part of her brand. The singer has even admitted that she actually has “really good eyesight” and only wears specs them she “loves the way glasses look.” I respect the commitment, Billie!
Whether she’s wearing tiny wire-rim frames, sleek rectangular glasses, or full-on Bayonetta-core specs, our girl always manages to make them look ridiculously cool. Billie’s been linked to brands like Gucci, while her eyewear choices are usually the Oakley Top Spinner 4B and the Oakley Wingfold EVR.
2. Bella Hadid
Bella Hadid has basically single-handedly brought back early-2000s micro frames. The tiny, narrow, slightly-too-small-for-your-face glasses that were everywhere in 2002 are suddenly cool again, and Bella deserves at least some of the credit.
She loves tinted lenses and sleek rectangular frames, often wearing styles from Dior, Chanel, and even affordable Amazon finds. But her glasses aren’t just a fashion statement. During a Vogue In The Bag video, Bella revealed she carries two pairs of clear glasses because they make her feel “invisible” in public, joking that they’re her own little camouflage when navigating crowds.
3. Hailey Bieber
Where some celebrities go big with eyewear, Hailey Bieber goes in the opposite direction. Her glasses are usually sleek, minimal, and clean — think thin wire frames, retro tortoiseshell styles, and ’90s-inspired oval shapes.
Unlike stars who wear glasses purely for the aesthetic, Hailey has revealed that worsening eyesight made prescription frames a daily necessity. She’s often spotted in styles from Saint Laurent and Gucci, and even launched her own collection with Vogue Eyewear. The result is effortlessly polished and understated, basically the eyewear version of Hailey’s entire brand.
4. Zendaya
Ultimate fashion queen, Zendaya, treats glasses like any other high-fashion accessory, which means she’s worn everything from sleek, barely-there frames to full editorial-ready statement pieces. Before undergoing LASIK surgery, she admitted to Jimmy Kimmel back in 2024 that she “really couldn’t see.”
Zendaya would rely on prescription glasses, but always made sure to keep them stylish, with similar fashion-forward frames found at places like Overnight Glasses or Nordstrom. From oversized metallic frames to aviator styles and bold square designs, even her prescription looks instantly elevated her outfits. If anyone can make a pair of glasses feel red-carpet-worthy, it’s definitely Zendaya.
5. Emily Ratajkowski
Emily Ratajkowski’s glasses collection feels like a love letter to vintage fashion. She gravitates toward oversized round frames, bold tortoiseshell styles, and wire-rimmed glasses that give off major ’70s intellectual energy.
Often spotted in designer frames from brands like Garrett Leight and Oliver Peoples, EmRata has mastered the whole “geek-chic” aesthetic. She’s one of those girlies who wears glasses in a way that somehow makes the entire outfit cooler. In fact, she once shared a photo of herself wearing glasses and tweeted, “Officially in need of glasses! What kind should I get?!”—and to be real, the answer turned out to be all of them.
6. Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn’s enormous cat-eye sunglasses in Breakfast at Tiffany’s are permanently burned into the cultural memory, but she brought that same effortless elegance to regular eyewear throughout her whole career too.
Her frames were always an extension of her look — sleek, feminine, precise. She basically proved that glasses could be just as elegant as any other part of an outfit, rather than something to work around. Her style influence in eyewear is still being referenced in fashion today.
7. Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp‘s relationship with glasses is less about one iconic pair and more about a full-blown obsession. Round John Lennon-style frames, tiny oval lenses, tinted glasses in every color, worn off-screen just as often as on. His approach to eyewear is basically that of a serious collector: find interesting pieces, accumulate them, rotate through them.
It’s a different kind of signature. Not one defining pair, but an entire aesthetic sensibility that runs through all of them.
8. Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner has a habit of wearing whichever eyewear trend is just starting to bubble up: tiny frames, shield sunglasses, oversized squares—always in the most elevated, high-gloss version possible. She’s been seen in Saint Laurent aviators, chic angular frames, clear specs with a slightly rounded square silhouette, and even Miu Miu glasses.
She’s also spoken on her family’s reality show about needing glasses for everyday things like driving and watching TV, and how her vision issues affect her daily life. Her approach isn’t about one signature style, it’s more about always being ahead of the curve, which is its own kind of influence.
9. Elton John
If there’s one person who has committed to eyewear harder than anyone else on this planet, it’s Elton John. Heart-shaped lenses, rhinestone-encrusted frames, oversized neon squares, at his peak, the glasses arrived at the party before he did.
What made his whole thing work wasn’t just the drama of it. It was the total lack of apology. He wore frames that most people would consider full-on costume pieces like they were perfectly normal. And somehow that confidence made them iconic instead of ridiculous. Elton himself has said his glasses collection numbers in the thousands, which absolutely tracks.
10. Katy Perry
Katy Perry’s eyewear has always matched her vibe: colorful, theatrical, and never afraid to be a bit extra. From kitschy novelty frames to bold, vivid statement sunglasses, she’s always treated glasses like part of the costume rather than an accessory.
But lately, she’s toned things down a notch. At the 2025 Balenciaga show in Paris, she showed up in a much more stripped-back, fashion-forward pair of sleek, minimal frames, proving she can do understated just as well as over-the-top.
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