While preparing for our upcoming vintage event, our very own Davida Hall has (maybe a little too much?) fun with some of the frames in our vintage collection, frames that Dan has collected over the years from around the globe. The video features vintage eyewear by Royal Ritz, Emmanuelle Khanh, Yohji Yamamoto, ABC France, Optical…
Category: Video
Videos about eyewear, some by us and some by the brands we love. Here’s where we put our favorites.
Los Angeles seen through l.a. Eyeworks Eyewear – A Video Tryptic
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…
Masunaga Optical, A History (Video)
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 Chats with Thierry Lasry in Westwood: Video Interview
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…
Barton Perreira Spring Summer 2012
Lucky for us, it’s the season for videos, and many of our designers are producing incredible fashion films. Take a look at Barton Perreira’s Spring/Summer 2012 offering that features a truly inspirational hot-air balloon ride. http://vimeo.com/34052057
Zero G
We are proud to now carry Zero G eyewear, lightweight, titanium, no-screw glasses, hand finished in one of the oldest factories in Japan. http://youtu.be/-HVtr3P7k34
Bulgari Le Gemme
Dan Deutsch has been describing eyewear as “jewelry to the face” for as long as we can remember. The latest collection from Bulgari, Le Gemme, is simply that: eyewear forged from precious metals and gems. (more…)
Etnia Energy
We’re loving all the videos that eyewear designers are putting out these days. This high-energy entry from Etnia of Barcelona, directed by Mawashi Geri with music by Goiko Martínez, that really captures the eyewear company’s playfulness and alegría de vivir.