Having been the main focus in recent years, such vintage, nerdy styles have been toned down, with thinner acetates and combinations. At the same time, there was no shortage of lightweight launches in titanium, aluminium and surgical steel, sometimes combined with acetate inserts.
One company particularly focused on weight, or rather lack of it, was nine eyewear, set up in 2009 by former long-term Bada distributor Jens William Sorensen of Aarhus in Denmark. The name nine comes from full-rim frames made in Japan of nine grams of pure titanium. There are three collections, the first being ‘nine’ a classical line with 0.8mm titanium wire and a standard groove to take any lenses, the second, ‘nine EDGE’, offers laser-cut 0.7mm sheet titanium for younger looking styles and the most recent, ‘nine 3rd’, where a transparent polyamide front, sometimes in bright colours, is used.
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