Brilliant, Bright Colours from Kirk Originals
20th August 2012 Colour has always been the hallmark of the Kirk Originals collections. Jason and Karen Kirk (above) share with Eyestylist.com their fascination with colour.
“Colour expresses emotion, and coloured eyewear makes a suggestion about the personality behind the eyewear. It fascinated us that the same colour can suggest different things according to its context or the timing of its use. The Beam Collection is a riot of bold hues and has been very well received. Amethyst, coral, aquamarine are all unusual colours in optics, but the public has embraced them. We suspect that these bright, joyful colours are a welcome antidote to the atmosphere of economic gloom.
“Our new autumn launch, Twenty, is a collection that celebrates our first twenty years of optical design. It incorporates traits of our work from different collections through the years, one of which is our use of colour, which will be bold, saturated, but sophisticated and suggesting warmth and confidence. It is amazing how colours can feel right one season, and then not quite so right the following year. We work very much on personal feeling.” www.kirkoriginals.com JG