November 2009 - Posts
Andy Wolf Eyewear is handmade in the small Styrian town of Hartberg, Austria. These photos were taken at Vienna Fashion Week and show how acetate spectacles should look - beautiful. And here's a little detail of how they're made...
Photos: Christian Leitner
Tell me that a car brand has a line of sunglasses and I will probably be pretty sceptical. And tell me that the said car brand is Ferrari, I would probably roll my eyes and expect the resulting product to be predictable, profit-driven, brand-licensed tosh. I'd be very wrong though in this case.
These vintage 1980s Ferrari F27S folding sunglasses, which Chris Metzler featured on his terrific blog Great Vintage Sunglasses yesterday, had me up on my hind legs like a frisky stallion. Visit Great Vintage Sunglasses for more detail. I too love the horse detail behind the fold!
Photos: Chris Metzler.
Stephane Sarnin has been making leather eyewear by hand in Paris for 15 years.
And as he demonstrates with these frive frames, the resulting look can range from smart and sophisticated (left) to rock chick (top).
Find Histoir de Voir in your opticians, and you know you've found an optician worthy of your custom.
Kirk Originals' latest collection of sunglasses - Vector - is terrific and, as is frequently the case from Kirks, it ignores some of the more obvious trends and includes an element of quirkiness.
The assymetry of the
Kirk Heroes collection is back, but it's not just the colour that changes, it's texture and pattern - a barcode to be precise. Great shapes, and great images.
I always thought Robert Palmer's
Addicted to Love video could not be improved, but I was wrong. A pair of Vector sunnies for each of the musicians...? I think so.
Photos, from top: Alana, Blake and Nicole.
Baum Vision produce some of the most cutting-edge, quality sunglasses including the Crafty Engineer, above, from
Paul Frank. These are worn by Riccardo Rossi of Italian band
The Sun.
Photo: Valeria Zanini.
RAEN Optics has teamed up with surfer
Alex Knost for the first instalment of its 2010 colection.
I love the round shape, the keyhole nose, the transparent colours.
Not available until March 2010...
It's been a while since I've done a "unidentified" post, partly because I'm always a bit anxious it will make me look a bit silly and people will tut, sigh, shake their head and think "this Eye Wear Glasses man doesn't know his temple tip from his nosepad".
I've a few ideas but thought I'd open it up to the peepers peeps.. any ideas? - comment below
Mark emailed me because he wants to buy the same glasses as eyecon Elvis Costello.
Am going to the dentist tomorrow for root canal work! (And I would rather be anywhere else but here...)
Photo: Contactmusic.com
Found another glasses blog today, Optical Ruminations by Jules Clarke, and his most recent post features this video of the Tornado, by Derapage Eyewear, an Italian collection. All made from chemically cut surgical grade stainless steel:
Balenciaga shades: I think these are model BAL0047, but no promises.
Usually when I write about good glasses, a thick slice of it is around good design - functional, aesthetic, technical, combining infuences, whatever.
What I like about
Mercura NYC, from Rachel Cohen-Lunning and Merrilee Lichtenstein Cohen at the
Hotel Chelsea, is that it goes beyond all that. It's bigger, more profound, it's art and I love it. Next time I'm in Manhattan, I know where I'm going. More on
Mercura here and an inconceivable amount on
Facebook...
Since the 1970s Rachel and Merrilee have designed fantasy jewelry, metal dresses, metal bustiers, headdresses, crowns, cigarette holders and more. Oh, and eyewear...
Photos: Curtis Eberhardt
I return from a rainy trip to the shop yesterday and what do I see? A massive parcel from Berlin. Twas like Christmas had come early!
It was of course the lovely folk at
ic! berlin sending me their latest pack of goodies: toffee, a calendar, a catalogue of all their specs, a DVD of quality, well-taken pics, too many to choose from. But I managed: here are four of my favourite new additions to their colossal collection of sheet metal ingenuity...
Top are Neutor and Rheingold, two of the latest additions to the main ic! berlin glasses collection.
And beneath those are Samedi and Dimanche, the newest models in Christina Muthsam's (it is her wearing them too) Très Chic! collaborative collection, both available either as prescription glasses or as shades.
So you have potentially the best hinge in the world - how do you make it better? You make it teeny-weeny.
(Why are no screws good? Because you don't have to invest in a tiny screwdriver to tighten them up when the temples flop.)
The new thinner temple has a silicone tip which can be bent into shape around the ear.
As a
Mykita wearer, I've always loved the shapes, but am particularly impressed by how much they manage to introduce shape and style to very minimalist designs.
Oh and here's me in my Mykita Nils frame with Arthur (Master Eye Wear Glasses Junior the Younger - both of us having a bad hair week).
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