Shamballa Eyewear

Shamballa Eyewear Press Release
Shamballa Eyewear is designed and produced by Larry Sands, who is “credited for creating the luxury eyewear market and making it the height of fashion” (World Press February 2009). Sands brought the fashion world widely known eyewear collections including Matsuda, Kieselstein Cord and Chrome Hearts. Shamballa Eyewear is a collection inspired by the ancient tradition of Yoga and Meditation. Shamballa Eyewear is known worldwide for its unique designs and use of luxury materials.

The Star of Shamballa is a declaration of premium quality and craftsmanship. The collection aspires to encourage the possibility of connection to our inner compassion and wisdom. Shamballa Eyewear brings glamour back to the luxury eyewear market. The collection is inspired by early designers, Elsa Schiaparelli and Dora Demel. Unlike most sunglass collections, Shamballa Eyewear frames are designed to be unique iconic classics, straying away from the seasonal trends.

We want our frames to have a long life span for our customers, not just a trend. The body of the frame is produced in Japan. The leather trim is exotic leather. The sun lenses are Zeiss and provide 100% UV protection. The collection includes an assortment of Men and Women’s frames including Ophthalmic and Sunglass styles starting at $795. The collection is praised by the luxury fashion world, including Karl Lagerfeld, who wears both the Evil Eye and the limited edition Big Love with White Diamonds.

VAVA – Siza Vieira

Collaboration with Architect Álvaro Siza Vieira

As glasses are a rigid object, they need to fit perfectly to the face and become a mechanical part of the body.

The collaboration with Álvaro Siza Vieira, a leading figure in contemporary architecture, is the result of the undeniable connection between VAVA

and the work of Siza Vieira, creator of many iconic buildings from the last 50 years.

This partnership is reflected in a “capsule collection” of limited/numbered edition eyewear and another collection of continuous production.

This is a fact that deserves to be celebrated, as Siza Vieira was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1992.

VAVA – Portuguese Eyewear Brand

VAVA glasses have a sophisticated, contemporary, and urban look. They are subtly futuristic, conceptual, and timeless.

VAVA’s motto is to offer a high-quality product that encompasses the experience, knowledge, and artistry of the great Italian masters

of handcrafted eyewear. This knowledge is being lost in a time when handmade production is flourishing, yet dominated by the use of low-quality materials.

This approach, combined with the use of the highest quality materials, makes VAVA unique.

The collection will be available at André Opticas from January 2019.

Kuboraum Emiliano Maggi x DSML Frieze Open House

 

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KUBORAUM EMILIANO MAGGI x DSML FRIEZE OPEN HOUSE

As part of Dover Street Market London’s Open House held in celebration of the Frieze Art Fair, Kuboraum unveiled a site-specific display installation together with artist Emiliano Maggi, consisting of an ecstatic ceremonial ballet of anthropo-morphic miniature glazed ceramic creatures and EyeCouture pieces, everything in a ritualistic conversation with the Kuboraum masks.

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The Kuboraum Emiliano Maggi cabinets display installation at Dover Street Market London is showcased in their basement until the end of next week. If by any chance you´re in town go check it out! We are sure it´s worth it!

New DITA 2018 have landed in Lisbon

A nova colecção DITA para 2018 já está disponível nas nossas boutiques,

venha conhecer uma das mais especiais e detalhadas colecções feita pelos melhores artesãos japoneses.

Uma colecção que evoca o mood americano combinada com a sofisticação da european atittude.

André Opticas at DOZE Magazine

The new edition of DOZE magazine, which is fantastic as always,

features a production with our eyewear. Focused on the male universe, DOZE is once again

to be congratulated for its work, and it can be purchased at selected newsstands or consulted in our stores – ENJOY.

Salvador Dali in ESKIMO by Courrèges available at André Opticas Lisboa

 

After watching the movie Casino for the thousandth time and admiring Ginger McKenna’s (Sharon Stone) style, dressed entirely in Courrèges, we increasingly realize just how significant André Courrèges’ designs were in the fashion world! The mood of the 60s was Courrèges… In 1964, he launched one of the greatest icons of all time! We love his Eskimo Sunglasses, and if you do too, you can find them exclusively in our stores!

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“I DONT DO DRUGS

I AM DRUGS”

Salvador Dali

Jacques Marie Mage Sunglasses

 

 

#EMBRACETHESPECTACLE

Jacques Marie Mage debuts a collection of inspired eyewear. Maker of small masterpieces; of
collectible objects steeped in deep histories; of coveted products brimming with idiosyncrasy and
elegance, Jacques Marie Mage strives to break from the banality of retroactive fads and imitative
fashions, choosing instead a dynamic design praxis that draws inspiration from across oceans
and ages, and combines craft motifs with quality materials, advanced production methods, and
ethical business practices.

A testament to ocular originality, the spectacles embrace an array of rich materials, bold
geometric shapes and an exuberance of attitude. Individually, each pair has a story to tell, reconfiguring
the aesthetic influences of bygone eras—from Brutalist architecture to Napoleonic
regalia—in wholly contemporary terms. The resulting eyewear collection consists of precisely
crafted objects of impressive physicality, refined statement pieces that are powerful, playful, and
meaningfully anachronistic.

To this end, J.M.M.’s debut collection of inspired eyewear is a testament to ocular originality. As a
group, the spectacles embrace an array of rich materials, bold geometric shapes, and an
exuberance of attitude. Individually, each pair has a story to tell, re-configuring the aesthetic
influences of bygone eras—from Brutalist architecture to Napoleonic regalia—in wholly
contemporary terms. The resulting eyewear collection consists of precisely crafted objects of
impressive physicality, refined statement pieces that are powerful, playful, and meaningfully
anachronistic.

“Our work is about history, authenticity, and craft,” comments founder and designer Jerome
Jacques Marie Mage. “It’s also about honesty. We’re not trying to take classic shapes and just
color them or twist them in some clever way. Our obsession with quality demands that we utilize
only the most premium materials, develop only the most innovative hardware, and utilize only the
most respectable eyewear manufacturers in the world.”