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After a long hiatus, Giorgio Armani Eyewear is back, and we have an exclusive on the new issues. Giorgio Armani Capsule Collection Last week Giorgio Armani sent us three elegant black boxes containing an (until now) mysterious 24-piece capsule collection, in advance of their Spring Summer 2013 scheduled release. We couldn’t wait to find out what [...]
TB 700 Thom Browne continues to impress with their impeccable quality and attention to detail. We recently got some new Thom Browne eyewear in at Sunset including this TB 700 with an extraordinary double-bar bridge. The double bridge is not uncommon in a sunglass, but in an optical frame, it’s unexpected… Black and shiny gold [...]
Armani is Back Giorgio Armani Eyewear is back and it’s back with a vengeance. An exclusive 24-piece capsule collection is being delivered to our stores the first week in March, months before other LA stores. It’s been years since Giorgio Armani put their name on eyewear and even longer since they issued some of the [...]
About a year ago the good people at l.a. Eyeworks met a Los Angeles artist named Molly Schiot, and it was love at first sight. (She wears an l.a. Eyeworks frame after all.) The ensuing collaboration was a trio of videos that focused on 3 Southern California habitats: city, desert and ocean, as seen through the lenses of [...]
Slav Nowosad One of the unique products that Dan has recently sourced is this stunning eyewear from Poland. Mad genius Slav Nowosad is both designer and creator behind the one-piece, stainless steel eyewear. The glasses have no screws, rivets or welds – simply an exquisite piece of jewelry to the face cut from a single piece [...]
We are thrilled to announce a collaboration with Barton Perreira on our new West Hollywood window display. It’s a festive Roaring Twenties holiday soiree scene we’re calling “What a Spectacle.” The Jazz-age display on the Sunset Strip inspires a sense of nostalgia and celebration – a perfect fit with Barton Perreira’s new retro-inspired collection featuring [...]
Recently we caught up with Tom Cody at Vision Expo West, and lucky for us, we had our iphone at the ready! Cody is responsible for (among great things in eyewear) bringing the Masunaga Optical brand, Japan’s the oldest eyewear company, to the United States. Cody tells us the story of how, over 100 years [...]
Dan Interviews Thierry Lasry Dan sat down with Thierry Lasry recently in Westwood, CA to talk shop. Lasry confides to Dan that he aspires to be to sunglasses what Christian Louboutin is to shoes. He tells how, with an optician father and fashion-designer mother, he was destined to design eyewear, and reveals how the [...]
This just in: Celine Eyewear We are very excited to present our newest arrival: Celine Eyewear, glasses and sunglasses for women who have an appreciation for things that Fashion bloggers Chiara Ferragni, Rumi Neely, and Carolina Engman have all been featuring the line prominently for some time, making Celine’s iconic “Audrey” one of the most photographed sunglasses on the [...]
This exquisite eyewear from Anne et Valentin is part of their Factory series, an homage to Andy Warhol’s Manhattan 1960′s studios known as “The Factory“. The factory was home to a lifestyle of partying, art production and everything in between for Warhol and his associates. Like Warhol’s Pop Art, the color of the frame is [...]
We think these Barton Perreira cat-eye sunglasses are the definition of glamourous. Crafted of pure titanium with enamel inlay and featuring sultry, gradient lenses, these long-limbed beauties are sexy, yet refined. Flirty, but elegant. Feline instincts are treated with restraint. We can’t think of anyone that does enamel eyewear better than Barton Perreira. This is [...]
New York Couturier Thom Browne recently launched his eyewear division, bringing to sunglasses and opticals the same high-touch sense of imagination that made his menswear line so well respected. tb-001 Browne explodes onto the market with this frame, which we think has already achieved icon status, right out of the box . The titanium frame [...]
