As far as I know these were the first Christian Dior sunglasses made of optyl, the miracle resin that was supposed to supplant cellulose acetate. They date from about 1969. Wilhelm Anger, the inventor...
Compare and contrast the new Diors: With these Sol Amors, which were the cover image of my book: Seeing the resemblance took me aback somewhat. I stopped at the Solstice store when I spotted...
The earlier installments in this series are at the links below: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 This installment largely consists of a nagging thought I’ve had. I remember once...
From the April 7th 1990 Philadelphia Inquirer: It was a marriage from hell. John List wasn’t the only one in the family who was mentally ill. So was his wife, Helen, according to a...
One of my favorite periods of 20th Century style occurred from the later 1950s through the mid 1960s. Men’s fashion especially was crisp, sleek and modern. It was the heyday of strong acetate eyeglass...
It wasn’t until the 20th Century that certain celebrated people began appearing for whom eyewear was at the center of their personal style. I’m not counting Teddy Roosevelt and his pince nez because the...
Although the first Optyl sunglasses made for Christian Dior was a combination frame of sorts (for the record it was huge and amazing with a stamped metal paisley frontpiece) the first decade or so...
I was thinking today: who was the first woman in eyewear I can remember that struck me as deeply sexy? I almost immediately recalled a Playboy Playmate from the 1960s, smiling, bookish looking, hair...
I can’t add anything to this Wikipedia entry: “GI glasses are eyeglasses issued by the American military to its service members. Dysphemisms for them include the most common birth control glasses and variants. At...
Celebrity Culture in this country is a strange thing. When the Porsche Carrera GT Fast and Furious start Paul Walker was riding in hit a light pole and then burst into flames debris was...
Moss Lipow has been variously referred to in media as "The Genius of Eyewear Design" and "The Most Talked About Eyewear Designer in Decades". His custom work has been worn by celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Elton John, the Olsens, M.I.A. and more. These include some of the costliest and most elaborate pieces of eyewear ever.
He curated and collected 3000 vintage and antique pieces spanning five centuries for his acclaimed definitive history of the medium "Eyewear", recently published by Taschen.
His eponymous line of eyewear is sold worldwide.
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