The Haute Couture You Wear in Your Eyes: Valentino Sunglasses
What defines the brand and why choose it
Valentino Garavani was the last great Italian couturier in the deepest sense of the term: the man who in 1959 saw a woman in red at the Barcelona opera and decided that colour — that unique mix of carmine and scarlet with a hint of orange since known as Rosso Valentino — would define every collection he made for nearly five decades. The man who in 1962 presented his first Haute Couture collection at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence and within a few years became the most sought-after designer for the most powerful female icons of the 20th century.
Jacqueline Kennedy — whose wedding dress for her marriage to Aristotle Onassis in 1968 was Valentino, and who for years chose the house almost exclusively — was the first to understand what Garavani offered: not just clothes, but a promise of beauty so precise and absolute that it turned the body wearing it into the most perfect expression of itself. Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly, Princess Diana, Julia Roberts (at the 2001 Oscars), Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez, Florence Pugh, Beyoncé — generations of icons who chose Valentino for the moments they wanted the world to remember. In January 2026, Valentino Garavani passed away in Rome aged 93, leaving a legacy no other Italian designer can claim in the same measure. The Maison continues under the creative direction of Alessandro Michele — who arrived in April 2024 from Gucci — with eyewear produced by Kering Eyewear since September 2025, manufactured in the finest Japanese ateliers.
Styles and uses: the collection lines
The VLogo Signature line is the main collection: Valentino's interlocked logo — the double V that since 1968 has been the house's seal — worked in metal as structural and decorative element on temples and hinges. Formats include oversized square acetate (VA4054, VA4061), hexagonal cat-eye with optional chain (VA4089), octagonal with gold chain (VA2040), round with chain (VA2043) and hexagonal with double crystal row (VA2044). The V-Light line is the purest technical and architectural proposal: ultra-lightweight Japanese titanium, geometric design where the lens appears to float within the tubular suspension frame, VLogo on bridge, Valentino studs on lateral rings and temples. Genderless. The V-Stud II line is the house's aviator: Japanese titanium, 3D studs on bridge, end-pieces and temples — where punk and bourgeois collide. The V-Due line is the collection's cat-eye: thick Japanese acetate, modern cat proportions, Rockstud-inspired temple tips and removable 3D VLogo metal buckle on temple, including limited-edition pink.
Practical details: Japan, titanium and couture construction
Valentino sunglasses are manufactured in the finest ateliers in Japan, with the highest quality materials available in the luxury eyewear industry. The Japanese titanium of the V-Light and V-Stud II lines is the same aerospace grade used in medical implants and aviation components. The Japanese acetate of the VLogo Signature and V-Due lines is the most chromatically precise material on the market, produced with high-density cellulose blocks allowing artisanal faceting finishes and a depth of colour impossible to replicate with lesser materials. UV 400 protection in solid, gradient and mirror in the house palette: grey, brown, green, bordeaux, gold mirror and silver mirror.
Rockstud, Pink PP and the evolution of Valentino codes
To understand the eyewear collection, it helps to understand the three codes that have defined Valentino's accessories universe over the past fifteen years. The Rockstud — the pyramid-shaped stud introduced in the Fall/Winter 2010 collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli as a homage to the rustic technique of Rome's noble palace facades — became the most profitable product in the brand's modern history, generating over $152 million in sales between 2014 and 2019. The stud appears in the eyewear collection in 3D worked versions on the V-Stud II bridge and temples and in Rockstud-inspired temple tips on the V-Due.
The Pink PP colour — the saturated fuchsia that Piccioli introduced in 2022 in collaboration with Pantone as a declaration of emotional beauty — lives on in the V-Due limited-edition pink colourway, one of the most photographed eyewear pieces in the house's history.
Under Alessandro Michele, who arrived in April 2024 from Gucci where he had defined the romantic-maximalist aesthetic of the 2010s, Valentino eyewear enters a new chapter. His first collection, Avant les Débuts, reinterprets the house archive through a lens of vintage glamour and cinema nostalgia — the same sensibility he brought to Gucci, now filtered through Valentino's Roman couture DNA. The eyewear's new chapter under Michele and Kering Eyewear production (from September 2025) promises a continuation of the highest-quality Japanese manufacture with the creative exuberance that has always defined the house at its most memorable.
Buying online at Visual-Click
Visual-Click is an authorised Valentino dealer and stocks the Valentino sunglasses collection with official warranty and international shipping. The team can advise on models from the VLogo Signature, V-Light, V-Stud II and V-Due lines, and on the new proposals under the creative direction of Alessandro Michele with Kering Eyewear production.
Explore the collection
The titanium VLogo of the V-Light, the studs of the V-Stud II, the pink cat-eye of the V-Due — Valentino sunglasses at Visual-Click are Roman Haute Couture in its most everyday and most portable form. Find your Valentino sunglasses at Visual-Click.
