
The Gorgeous Britt Ekland looking adorable in vintage Dan Deutsch cateye sunglasses. The Bond girl and actress extraordinaire brightens our day whenever she comes in.
We get excited about the designers we carry.
Masunaga has been hand crafting eyewear in Fukui, Japan since 1905. The care and dedication to quality they feature is of a level rarely seen in the optical industry, and in honor of them entering the American market, Masunaga and DDOO partnered to showcase nine top craftsmen in Los Angeles and ask them, “What does craftsmanship…
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 styles in at our Sunset shop 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…
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 clothes that …suggest something new but made to last far beyond fast fashion trend. The New York Times, March 1, 2012 Fashion bloggers Chiara Ferragni, Rumi Neely, and Carolina Engman have all been…