Victoria Beckham to launch optical eyewear

Singer-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham is expanding

her successful fashion label to include an optical eyewear line from January 2013, due to her own struggle to find the perfect pair of specs to aid her short-sightedness.

Partnering with Cutler & Gross, the debut six-piece collection of glasses for spring/summer 2013, will feature a diamante-faceted "V" upon the frames, and will be available in three tonal colour ways.

The collection, which is handmade in Italy, will launch to retailers at the international eyewear exhibition Silmo Paris in October, and will be in addition to her successful sunglasses collection that launched two years ago.

Consisting of different frame shapes range from heavier styles such as the unisex ‘heavy square’, to lightweight metal aviators and bold acetate rectangular shapes, the glasses will retail from 295-340 Pounds.