It wasn’t long ago that it was reported that one of the Olsen twins was going to quit fashion. However it looks like their fashion empire it just going from strength to strength with them winning numerous awards and being praised by the very fickle and hard to please fashion industry (especially if you’re a celebrity). Now they’re launching their first sunglasses range.

Everybody loves the sunshine. Well, fashion designers seem to love providing us with endless options to stylishly shield our eyes from it anyway (Alexander Wang and Giles Deacon are just two designers to have joined the fray recently.) The Row, the Olsens’ high-end label, is the latest to add sunglasses to their range with the help of London-based company, Linda Farrow. We all need a good pair of sunglasses – it can make or break your summer outfit.

Mary-Kate and Ashley will be starting small, releasing four very different styles: metal aviators, a pair of round frames, an over-sized square pair and a pair vintage-looking brow-skimmers. Ashley Olsen told WWD; “We’re testing the market first and obviously these are four very different silhouettes, so we’re seeing what people are responding to and we’ll open up a couple more silhouettes for fall. We tried to find certain pieces that look good on more than one face, to pay close attention to how they fit certain faces and make them wearable at the same time. Designing eyewear was definitely more complicated than we thought, and of course we wanted to be extremely hands-on,” says Mary-Kate.