Author Information:

Simon Murray’s spectacle collection is the largest private collection in the world. He has provided glasses for movies from Batman to Indiana Jones and for movie stars from Sean Connery to Tom Cruise. Nicky Albrechtsen is the proprietor of theVintage Resource Studio in Brick Lane, London, which provides costumes and props to the theatre and media. She is the author of The Printed Square and (with Fola Solanke) Scarves, both also published by Thames & Hudson.