Thinking of starting a vintage eyewear page on Instagram. I could do this all on my own Instagram page, which I recently started (add it if you do Instagram, and like eyewear content https://www.instagram.com/mosslipow/),...
In the late 1970s, through the 1980s, there was a group of young men in Japan who loved American denim. They were aficionados and collectors. As more efficient, and cheaper production methods proliferated worldwide,...
Last post I noted that Luxottica had guarded themselves pretty well from their licensors going in-house for eyewear. In recent years they’ve avoided licensing from the luxury goods conglomerates, which were always the most...
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...
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...
I guess everybody in the U.S. begins their July 4th holiday tomorrow. Nowadays people in the United States eat barbecue, detonate small explosives and watch professionals detonate larger explosives by way of celebration. Things...
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...
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...
Let’s take a trip down memory lane courtesy of the New York Times: FAD FOR EYEGLASS FRAMES LINKED TO 4 SLAYINGS By WILLIAM ROBBINS Published: April 1, 1984 PHILADELPHIA, March 31— A costly brand...
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...
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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