German Spectacles Brand, Only 5 years Old
Ingrid Glasses or Sunglasses
(Thanks To Spectacles For Humans for first alerting me to these.)
This brand of glasses cum sunglasses has made a simple virtue of having made screws and soldering and bits that break totally redundant. And Mykita make a big design feature of the front corner of the temple. Look at the two pairs shown here, the Ingrid (above - after bergman) and the Nico (below - after who?) with very dominant corners and hinges. Originally (they only started 5 years ago!) all their frames were from flat steel. the second collection was from acetate, as seen above in the Ingrid glasses.
Nico Glasses or Sunglasses
But they haven’t stopped there. They make great looking retro style glasses & shades, named after icons such as Janis (Joplin, I assume) and they take great photographs - of the specs and moody ones of people in them and also a couple of really sharp, flashy pics of showcase secs from new collections. Watch this space for more from them…
Sales of these wonderfully designed glasses are from their own stores in Berlin or Vienna and in the usual up-market London, Paris, New York style smart cities & capitals of Europe and the Far East
on Jul 10th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
[...] and more) and I have to add a link (which etiquette forbids, as I did last time I introduced the designer glasses brand) and then I have to go out!