Specsavers announces Vivienne Westwood collection
If you’re going to seek inspiration for an eyewear range, Vivienne Westwood is one of the greatest sources—who wouldn’t want a taste of modern punk, new wave, and some antiestablishment flair? There’s a limit, of course, when it comes to frames, since they still have to be wearable, so Specsavers has opted to interpret […]
Rianne van Rompaey, Blesnya Minher, Pan Haowen front Chanel spring ’22 eyewear campaign
Chanel’s spring–summer 2022 eyewear campaign, fronted by Rianne van Rompaey, Blesnya Minher, and Pan Haowen, has been shot by Karim Sadli in black and white. The campaign comprises six images, showing the principal categories of the designs: classic, retro, square, rectangular, and aviator. Customers can choose between sunglass and optical. The double-C motif is […]
Elton John Aids Foundation Oscars party co-hosted by Lady Gaga raises US$8·6 million
Jamie McCarthy, Michael Kovac, Amy Sussman We could run another article on that incident at the Oscars, but we prefer to do something more positive: talk about the 30th annual Elton John Aids Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party, which raised US$8·6 million to help end the Aids epidemic. On Sunday at West Hollywood Park, […]
Paris Hilton collaborates with Quay on eyewear collection
Eyewear brand Quay has announced a collaboration with Paris Hilton, resulting in a 12-piece collection available from March 9 at Quay stores and at quay.com, with prices beginning at US$55. A 60 s spot sees Hilton wearing Quays doing etiquette lessons, and breaking all the rules. Quay’s message is one of female empowerment. Both […]
Liberty launches exclusive Specsavers range
Liberty’s the latest brand to team up with Specsavers, launching a collection of thirteen adult and four children’s styles, and three sunglasses. Prices begin at NZ$369 and come with a Liberty print case. The designs have been inspired by Liberty’s print archive and feature the company’s Iphis motif on the temple. There are also […]
Mercedes-Benz and IC Berlin collaborate on eyewear collection
Mercedes-Benz and IC Berlin have collaborated on a capsule sunglasses’ collection comprising five designs that incorporate elements from Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-AMG vehicles. Mercedes-Benz stresses that the arrangement is not just a licensing of a symbol, but that its avant-garde philosophy has been brought into the eyewear. Certainly the forms are distinct from what […]
Monokel Eyewear introduces biodegradable sunglasses
Stockholm archipelago-based Monokel Eyewear has always made sunglasses that last, but its latest collection ensures that they do—only up to a point. Its spring–summer 2021 collection, anchored on the Edvard Munch quotation, ‘From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity,’ is fully bio-based and biodegradable, with […]
Specsavers shows modern classics for autumn–winter 2021
Carla Zampatti Hugo Specsavers’ autumn–winter 2021 collection features a number of well known brands, with the emphasis on modern classics. Even though there’s an appetite for more unconventional fashion in Australasia, with COVID-19 relatively under control compared to many other parts of the world, eyewear remains on a safer path, with familiar shapes such as […]
Forget conformity: Specsavers releases Deus Ex Machina eyewear collection
Deus Ex Machina has collaborated with Specsavers on a new eyewear collection, now at stores across New Zealand. The new collection comprises twelve optical and six sunglass styles. It’s those fine Deus Ex Machina details that mark them out: asymmetric pins on the frame, which recall biker jacket buttons, as well as the Deus […]
Blenders goes beyond sunglasses and snow goggles as it launches blue light-filtering eyewear
Nick Ramsey; Blenders Blue light glasses are definitely a sign of our times, and that we may be spending far too much time in front of our screens. There are still many cellphones that don’t have blue light filters, and television manufacturers are obsessed about how bright their sets can go—just head into any retailer—and […]
