Eye Want is Annette Sollars’ uncompromising vision for fine eyewear and has been dominating the Chicago optical scene since her shop opened. In 1997, Annette opened Chicago’s first 100% female-owned fine opticianry shop. Within months, her first national press feature (Home & Away magazine, 1997) announced to Chicago that this bitch is for REAL—and it was a rude awakening for the smug, stuffy incestuous (and needless to say, male dominated) den of debauchery that was Chicago optical retail in the mid 1990s. Instead of adopting the Oak Street markup or the Lincoln Park “it’s all about the negative space” anti-fashion darkwave, Eye Want went in a totally different direction, providing its customers with real choices rather than an illusion of choice manufactured by French-Italian conglomerates!With a selection spanning decades and makers, confronting and crossing boundaries, Eye Want was then,and remains today, a fashion pioneer When, why, where and how one sees, and how one wants to be seen, all play a part in choosing a great frame for a complex human being. Some pimple-face, teenage, minimum-wage, chain-store clock puncher with no training is never going to provide you meaningful assistance in the delicate art of self expression! When you care enough to give your face the very best, Eye Want is here for you.