Gene Krell celebrated in song.
We’ll wrap up our verrry limited coverage of Fashion Week today. I hung out with our old friend Gene Krell last week. He was in town for fashion week fulfilling his duties as Fashion...
Category: 1960s
Vintage Pucci Sunglasses and the first job in eyewear I ever wanted.
One of the first things I wanted to do when I decided to design sunglasses was get the Emilio Pucci license. I always thought Pucci sunglasses from the 1960s were cool. They represented the...
Don Draper and the rising price of vintage AO aviator sunglasses.
Every now and then I hear people discuss the value of product placements. Some think they’re important, some don’t. Ultimately their worth depends on one’s ability to reach those customers that notice such things....
Vintage Foster Grant Sunglasses – The First Fashion Eyewear Company
One of the more pleasant surprises in my readings about eyewear was a little book called “More Than Meets The Eye”. It was a privately published history commemorating the 50th anniversary of Foster Grant...
1960s Op-Art Sunglasses
Fashion cycles went quickly and differed radically from year to year during the 1960s. I’ll admit I have a fondness for much of the design of the era. I still marvel at pictures of...
Space age sunglasses… Not to be confused with Elvis Presley sunglasses.
I never looked into it but I think there must have been a technical advance in surfacing styrenes with metal finishes around 1968 or so. An avalanche of plastic sunglasses with metal plating came...
Marianne Faithfull Steals Roy Orbison’s Sunglasses! WTF!!?
There’s something messed up about these photos. Firstly I was surprised to discover Marianne Faithfull and Roy Orbison ever lived in the same universe. Secondly taking Roy Orbison’s sunglasses is like giving Samson a...
Christian Dior Sunglasses… By Tura, not Optyl.
The cover image for this post is Christian Dior. I wonder how many people familiar with the brand know he was an actual person? Seriously. I wonder how many of those are familiar with...
Frame of the Week: The first Christian Dior optyl sunglasses 6/6/14
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...
The Golden Age of Thick Plastic Eyeglasses – and its end…
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...
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