Tuesday 26 April 2011

Blindfold spring-summer 2011: California Rose



These are images from Blindfold Eyewear's SS2011 collection - California Rose.

Created by Charlie Brianna, these vintage frames are customised with flowers, pearls, chain, swarovski stones and iridescent beads.

EWG is a fan Charlie!

Monday 25 April 2011

Sunday 24 April 2011

Factory900's stained glass window sunglasses

Factory900's stained glass window sunglasses
Japan's Factory900 breaks the record for the number of lenses in a pair of glasses. I can see Lady Gaga in this frame-and-a-half. Hope she doesn't need prescription lenses... 8)

Thursday 21 April 2011

Forget make-up, just wear a pair of glasses: Mykita & Bernhard Willhelm's Violetta

Forget make-up, just wear a pair of glasses: Mykita & Bernhard Willhelm's Violetta

Forget make-up, just wear a pair of glasses: Mykita & Bernhard Willhelm's Violetta
Bernhard Willhelm and Mykita have created the Violetta using lens colouring to great effect. The frame at the front above features fine gold rims and teardrop-oval lenses, which have a subtle green glow in the upper half that turn to a rosé colour above the cheekbones.

In the second version, made of light stainless steel, the blue-to-cognac colour scheme is complemented by a matt-silver frame.

It's not the first time Mykita has had a brush with cosmetics - remember last year's nail varnish colab?

Mykita says 
the upper colour acts like a green or blue eye shadow, while the lower section emphasises the cheeks as rouge would.

Looks good to me!

Tuesday 19 April 2011

Finest Seven sunglasses: luxury collection launches in London


Finest Seven sunglasses: Zero 5 in tortoiseshell

Finest Seven sunglasses: Zero 4 in plum

Finest Seven sunglasses: Zero 2 in rose gold
Finest Seven launches next month in London with a rather stunning collection of v. high- end sunglasses (Harvey Nichols to begin with) and a rather impressive pedigree in good eyewear design.

New Zealand-born Jesse Stevens has designed for EWG favourites Cutler & Gross, Oliver Goldsmith Sunglasses and Prada.

"Finest Seven" refers to the the key aspects of eyewear production: components, lenses, materials, finish, design, comfort and manufacture. The first range consists of six styles featuring precious metals such as platinum and yellow gold, as well as top-quality acetate in exclusive colours such as chestnut and plum.

Prices start at £495.

Monday 18 April 2011

Round white sunglasses from Clare Lopeman for SS 2011

Round white sunglasses from Clare Lopeman for SS 2011

Clare Lopeman caught our attention last year with images of models wearing optometric testing frames on the runway. Her 2011 sunglasses are a tad more conventional although the design is pretty distinctive as can be seen in more detail on her homepage...