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Ski Style

28th November 2014

Götti Snow Goggles

28th November 2014 It’s ski and winter sport season! A time for fun, style and safety on the slopes. Ski goggles add a dramatic, dashing accent to ski wear, and Götti’s new snow goggles are the ideal accessory.

Brilliant technical features – including a flexible and resistant matt finish rubber, polycarbonate mirror 400 UV lenses, plus an anti-fog system – ensure lightweight comfort as well as style.

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Dashing Design and Colour by Sven Götti - Götti Switzerland — Dashing Design and Colour by Sven Götti – Götti Switzerland

The impressive design is available in fabulous colours too – black with blue mirror lenses; white with red mirror lenses; and yellow with shiny gold mirror lenses. www.gotti.ch JG

Boutiques

Triwa’s Swedish flagship

9th November 2014

November 2014 Opened in May this year, independent accessory brand Triwa’s new Stockholm flagship is the work of Swedish architects Elding Oscarson. Located close to the city’s fashionable centre on Grev Turegatan, a pedestrian shopping street, the boutique has been designed to present the entire range of Triwa watches and sunglasses and offers a welcoming contemporary space with neon signs, gold metal lights and creative displays.

Founded in 2007, Triwa produces luxury watches known for their quality and timeless style; they are available at leading fashion stores including Liberty’s of London. The Triwa sunglasses collection combines classic shapes with modern details such as lenses from Optics by Carl Zeiss (affordable prices from £149.00) and signature coloured temple ends. As the brand expands, we hope to take a closer look at the full collection, watches too!

TRIWA, Grev Turegatan 13, 114 46 Stockholm, Sweden. www.triwa.com CN

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Corbu

1st November 2014

Blake Kuwahara Eyewear

From a new eponymous collection by a designer who first came to optics as the creator and designer of KATA, the Blake Kuwahara line is made by hand in Japan. I first met Blake when I started as a trade journalist in the eyewear sector in 1999, and was told by senior editors he was one of the most important trendsetting designers at the time. Today he expresses his eyewear passion once again in a collection that is elegant, understated, imaginative and executed with precision and attention to detail.

Style Corbu expresses the key concept of the collection, as Kuwahara explained to Eyestylist at Silmo: “I’ve taken familiar eye shapes but encapsulate them in a nontraditional surrounding shape. By making a “frame within a frame” the juxtaposition of shapes and colours creates a design tension that is fresh and quite unexpected.” The collection launches with nine unisex optical styles and nine sunglass styles. www.blakekuwahara.com CN

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Mutato

1st November 2014

Mothersbaugh x Baum

Coming soon to very chic shops including Opening Ceremony and Eye Society! Mutato is one of the new styles from a collaborative line by Mark Mothersbaugh (front man for Devo and eyewear enthusiast) with eyewear designer Shane Baum. Bold and artistic, the frames are statement geometric designs with lots of luxury features – including silver reflective mirror coated lenses. A scholarly shape, Mutato is created – interestingly- in Beryllium metal, with a stainless steel chrome finish. It’s light, strong (six times stronger that steel) and resistant to tarnish and corrosion, as well as offering a unique bright greyish-tone surface shine. Find more on this collection at: www.eyesocietyonline.com CN

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Rotary No. 50

1st November 2014

Padma Image Eyewear Design

New blood from Japan….We have our eye on Japan and a group of rising young designers who focus on specialist artisan production and innovative small collections. I have been following Padma Image for a few months as their designs are available in a large number of Japanese optical stores including ‘eyewearshop’ (Asahikawa City) and The Glasses (Imabari-city) . Created by 28 year old Yuuki Hasui the collection is only available in Japan for the moment, but the designer tells Eyestylist he expects to launch in Europe and the US shortly. Made in Kagawa Prefecture, ‘Padma’ means lotus in Sanskrit and it is the designer’s nickname. “My aim is to create glasses that are comfortable but with something unique, with a certain fashion appeal that is right for today.” Hasui uses vintage acetate he found in a factory in Fukui for its smooth and beautiful features. The elegant handmade shapes and shiny finish are very attractive yet understated. We are watching this label for the future and we have spied some wonderful shapes that are innovative and eye-catching for the eyewear connoisseur. http://padma-image.petit.cc/ CN