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Month: February 2011
E&E Sunglasses
This week we had the pleasure to meet the founders and designers behind the new eyewear brand E&E. The brand name comes from their names Erik and Emilia. They are both from northern Sweden and all their sunglasses are named after different Swedish summer resorts.
Emilia and Erik. (Photo from: http://www.eoe-glasses.com)
The sunglasses are all handmade in acetate. In the same factory as Ralph Lauren Eyewear. Despite all of this, the prices are very friendly and it might inspire you to go a little bit more crazy, or maybe buy two of them?
E&E “Båstad”
E&E “Falsterbo”
E&E “Ribban”
E&E “Falsterbo” and “Bettnes”
Jasmin and I like the brown “Falsterbo” with the faded glasses a lot and we think this one will be E&E’s bestseller! But, if you want to go more crazy, I would like to recommend the orange one, that color is just so happy and cool.
Thierry Lasry X Acne Studios
Photo: Acne
French eyewear designer Thierry Lasry and Swedish Acnes Studios have collaborated on these handmade sunglasses for Spring 2011. They are thick and very straight plexiglas frames with mirrored flat lenses. Avaliable in blue, silver and gold (as seen in picture).
But lovliest of all is the inner temple text: Summer nights and long warm days. Yes, please!
Day & Night
With a delicate laser cut metal clip, you can transform your day glasses into glamorous fancy frames! Here is a sample from Belgian Theo, from their Eye Witness Collection.
In other words, you get 2 for 1!
MARNI leather case
One of the most beautiful spectacle cases I’ve ever seen is this one, from MARNI.
Made in Italy, from genuine leather.
Leisure Society
Shane Baum has been in the eyewear business for 20 years. He is the president of Baum Vision, former designer for Louis Vuitton Eyewear and current designer of Paul Frank Eyewear, just to mention a few things. Needless to say he has exceptional taste in luxurios quality items. Mr. Baum’s new baby is Leisure Society.
Leisure Society is an high-end handmade luxury eyewear brand with both an optical and a sun collection.
The frames are tastefully detailed with etchings and they look rich, not in the bling way, rather in an “old money”-style. The sun collection holds exceptional quality where the lenses are 99.9% distortion-free and has a 12-layer anti-reflectiong coating. As an optometrist i think the lens quality is important but often times not thought of when buying expensive sunglasses. Of course the price is set even higher when the frames are wrapped in 12 k, 18 k and 24 k gold. Think of these frames as something that will last a lifetime, perhaps to be handed on to the next generations.
Sit back, relax and enjoy this beautiful video. Would you like to join their world too?
Photo: Leisure Society
MARNI from the bottom to the top!
MARNI is one of the few clothing brands that actually makes glasses with a really high quality and special design. Their glasses are very feminine and fun, just like their clothing and accessories. So, why don’t you match a whole MARNI-outfit with your eyewear?
Feminine, classy and fun!
Eye Exam Frames & Henrik Vibskov AW11
Henrik Vibskov‘s AW11 show at Copenhagen Fashion Week last week really made a statement with the bright reds, oranges, blacks and whites. PLUS: eye exam frames on all models! Every optometrist has one. They’re not very comfortable but they sure look cool – Lady Gaga meets Willy Wonka. Fun and futuristic.
Photos from CopenhagenFashionWeek.
New MYKITA Sun SS11
We had the chance of looking at the newest of the newest MYKITA sun collection. Now we really can’t wait for the sun to come back!
MYKITA is an übercool Berlin based eyewear brand making really comfortable sunglasses with excellent quality and durability. The metal frames are really light as they’re cut out out of a superthin sheat of steel and then milled into the right shape – this in combination of the screwless contruction (screws usually unscrew themselves) gives the MYKITA frames a very unique look and feel.
Lately we’ve seen lots of round retro-style shapes and colorful sunglasses in general from all eyewear brands! MYKITA interprets this in a very modern and sleek way:
For all of you who love colorful sunglasses!
This feminine shape is lovely.
Transparent acetate shifts in color in the sunshine. COOL!
Very tasteful glasses for the gentlemen. Notice the superthin gold bottom rim.
OH! The shape, colors and matte texture! These are really fun!
The shading of this lens is exquisite. Notice the hinges on this acetate frame.
This oversized cat eye shape’s color reminds me of lolly pops
MYKITA has a collaboration with Uslu Airlines, offering three different colors for you to match your aviators with your nail polish! We like!
Matte VS Polished
Lately we’ve seen lots of matte acetate frames. This frosty texture adds an extra dimension to the frame and gives it a complete new look. It softens the dark colors and feels very comfortable against the skin. Take a look!
Oliver Peoples Wacks in Matte Red Havanna
Oliver Peoples Wacks in Sandalwood – you can clearly see the difference, right?
A few matte frames. Front to back: Theo Bonne in Matte Black, Oliver Peoples Wacks in Matte Red Havanna, Oliver Peoples Albert J in Matte Black and Cutler & Gross 1012 in Matt Dark Turtle.
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