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Selima Optic’s New Acetate Colors!
Just saw some new awesome colors from Selima Optics! Lots of colorful ones and many transparent ones!
Edouardo in a lovely Violet Horn acetate.
Andy in this lovely Emerald Green. What a great shape, very Andy Warhol!
Virgine in Tortoise / Navy. Here you can really see the different layers of acetate.
Andy in Grey Christal. Love love love gray acetate frames! The light goes through them and make them shine but they can also look brownish dark gray depending on your skin tone and the light!
Ørgreen Press Event – Masculine Shapes
Here is a follow-up to the previous post from the Ørgreen Press Event, this time showing some of our favorite masculine shapes.
We especially like the bold lines in the frames, giving a true masculine look with a lot of attitude. Some of the frames are especially good for wide heads and big noses, which isn’t so easy to find all times.
Mod. Vincent Col. 155 (beautiful matte finish!)
Mod. Dean Col. 388 (left) and 390 (right)
Mod. Carter Col. 280
Special collaboration
Ørgreen has merged a mutual mindset with exclusive furniture brand Republic of Fritz Hansen to produce a series of Arne Jacobsen Swan chairs featuring the same Copenhagen skyline design as a special edition collection of eyewear by Ørgreen.
Through this partnership, the similar design values between Ørgreen and Arne Jacobsen are believed to be especially expressed through one of the world’s most iconic designs. This is the first time Arne Jacobsen Swan chair is made in two different materials, wool for the front and black leather for the back. Likely to the København frames, the Swan chair is also available in 5 carefully chosen tones.
Special edition Københaven frames and Swan chairs will be available for purchase directly through Ørgreen/Republic of Fritz Hansen.
Mod. CHP col. 310
Ørgreen Optics Press Event
Last week I visited Ørgreen Optics press event here in Stockholm at wonderful Nobis Hotel. It was a pleasure seeing all the novelties, there are a lot of Bonocle favorites to come.
Ørgreen latest collection, presented at Silmo 2012.
Nowadays the collection also contains many female shapes in interesting colors. All frames are made of titanium and acetate, handmade in Japan and designed in Copenhagen. At their workshop in Copenhagen they’re 15 people working with Ørgreen, where one of them is a full time colorist. You can really tell there is a specialist, seeing the color settings, nothing is left to chance. Most frames are two-colored, with amazing combinations.
Mod. Drummer Col. 174
This is a limited color edition, due to the fact it’s a vintage acetate from the 60’s which isn’t produced anymore. So you better hurry getting this edition before it’s to late!
For the ladies:
From the new Ørgreen collection you will find delicate female shapes in soft colors. Big up for their fine selection of femal frames, slightly caty and oversized in a balanced way giving a modern female look.
A separate post will come up tomorrow featuring more masculine shapes.
Mod. Honey Col. 330
Mod. Lana Col. 387
Mod. Connaisseur Col. 382
CHRISTMAS OFFER – THIS WEEK ONLY
It’s only 2 weeks left for Christmas!
This year we want to give our Bonocle-friends a special gift by giving the access to our christmas discount code: XMAS2012 – which gives you 100 euros discount when buying the limited edition MYKITA for BONOCLE sunglasses.
(Order before the 16th of december for a guaranteed delivery before christmas).
Merry Christmas!
//The Bonocle Online Store
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See all out products at: bonocle.tictail.com
Meet Vinylize Eyeworks
We’ve heard about many different ways of making eyewear. Lately maybe even more; skateboards and wood to mention a few. One of the biggest trends at Silmo was definitely classic shapes out of new materials, mostly wood though.
This is the first time I hear about eyewear made of recycling Vinyl records! Vinylize Eyeworks offer sunglasses made from vinyl records, all made and hand finished in their own workshop located in Budapest. Vintage meets futuristic style!
The Vinylize Method:
The latest new from Vinylize Eyeworks is a unique piece of eyewear, approached by Sub Pop Records artists Schabazz Palaces, you can listen to their music (here) trhough Spotify. The sunglasses will only be available in a truly limited edition.
“The Bling From Another World!”
Meet C.W. DIxey & Son Eyewear
C.W. Dixey & Son is a prestigious brand with a long history. Established in London 1777, worn by some of the worlds most influential people such as Churchill and Napoleon among several royalties from England and Sweden over the years, C.W. Dixey & Son is a brand with unique history and heritage. The company is today still going strong keeping its values by remaining an independent family business.
All frames are handmade in France, focused on quality and exclusivity with an understated elegance. The current collection “Chartwell” finds its inspiration in the frames created for Sir Winston Churchill for many years ago. The 8 models which constitutes the Chartwell collection comes in three classical colors: black, dark tortoise and light tortoise. Both shapes and color settings are true to the history and in a true classical spirit you get your C.W. Dixey & Son eyewear together with an elegant handmade leather case.
SILMO 2012 // Introducing KameManNen
Meet Japanese KameManNen
– One of the worlds finest eyewear craftsmanship.
Made of strong titanium and the finest acetate you can get, the feel of the frames are unlike anything else made in mass production. This is pure craftsmanship. The frames are made in a small factory in Japan from old design ideas, giving the frames a pure classic look.
KameManNen is a traditional Japanese eyewear manufacture creating very firm yet light frames of exceptional quality, with beautiful handcrafted details and no logos.
As you can see from the pictures KameManNen offers a big variation of round shapes. You can choose from different sizes, oval shapes, circular round, slightly rounded, bold or thin, titanium or acetate – or both… etc.
We love it! As a true eyewear geek with a big passion for quality and craftsmanship you just gotta love the KameManNen frames.
RVS by V – Truly Handmade
Jasmin and Barbara wearing RVS by V Palladium
We’re completely in love with RVS by V, Turkish eyewear brand offering handmade eyewear. We’ve been reading about them a lot but not until very recently we finally got the chance to touch them and try them on for real. They are so cool, definitely one of the hottest brands out there.
When RVS by V say they’re handmade, they really mean handmade. They don’t even have any catalogues showing any collections, because they custom made every collections! Here we’re wearing two custom made Palladium, and we LOVE them!
Matte pink/Blue mirror lens and Matte blue/Orange mirror lens
Jasmin in her custom made RVS by V
Barbara in custom made RVS by V
The frames come in a hard box, together with a soft handmade eyewear sleeve.
Feather light thin and light yet a lot of attitude thanks to the mirror lenses.
SILMO 2012 // MYKITA
MYKITA showed such a great collection at the SILMO fair in Paris this October!
Cool new colors such as matte red, green and cobalt blue, accent colors such as neon pink and violet combined with large round shapes is a hit!
Barbara Canales in matte red sunglasses from MYKITA.
I really love the shape and thickness of this frame!
Super ultra thin and light – yet durable!
It’s fun to have a splash of a bold color and it works really well when it’s this thin!
A new acetate color, here you can really see the transparent parts which I love about it!
Amazing cobalt blue color! I want to see these in clear lenses!
Lovely matte pinkish violet.
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