I’m not sure where I should even start with Lytot! I’d love to hear from anyone with a kid who wears these! Do you think they would be as practical as the website claims?

“Ahmed ZEKRI’s daughter once visited him in his frame factory. She then dropped her pacifier nearby a sunglasses. The concept of Lytot, assembling a pacifier and sun glasses, was born.

Her daughter, like many infant does not stand to wear sunglasses for more than few minutes. Most of the time kids feel uncomfortable with the temple or the neckband.
Eventually, he imagined sunglasses mounted on to a pacifier she will naturally wear giving her optimal protection.” – From Lytot’s site

[via Brillor]

Freja Beha Erichsen is also in this rather fine campaign:

Here’s one of the pairs of sunglasses from the new theo collection, designed by Tim Van Steenbergen.

I’m told that this particular pair, Hesperia Comma, are named after the Silver-spotted Skipper butterfly

I love the double bridge and gigantic round shape.

You can see more here.

I want the new (Northern Hemisphere spring 2010) Lucia sunglasses from SUPER very badly and can’t decide between these three colours.

More on Selectism

I quite like the new House of Holland and Linda Farrow sunglasses collaboration, but I don’t fancy my chances at getting them with my prescription!

“They worked exclusively with plexiglass on the sunglasses, and the frame and lenses are united into one piece. The sunglasses come in two colorways and are now available from colette.” – High Snobiety

Via High Snobiety

Y△CHT are playing in NZ next week! I’m really excited about their show and wanted to post about it here, so I’m going to connect it all back to sunglasses. Because I can!

Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans of Y△CHT wear super-choice sunglasses in the video for Psychic City (Voodoo City):

Claire is amazing. Not only does she wear the above sunglasses a lot (and admits to an obsession with round sunglasses), she writes about science (also here) and science fiction and is an artist who, amongst other things, made an animated .gif of Charles Babbage wearing sunglasses!

…be careful with the downloading and protect your eyes!

I am so lucky, that during my day job, I get to stumble upon photographs like this.

I’m completely in love with his sunglasses.

More here

Another stunning pair of sunglasses to lust after, designed by one Mr. Graz Mulcahy. These are in association with Monster Children

Pedestrian.TV have just posted an interview with Graz:

Describe the design and product development process – how do you go from original idea to finished product? Where does your design inspiration come from?
First an idea; then a sketch. From that sketch it then goes into the computer. I develop a shape and then apply the appropriate measurements. Because my frames are made by hand they have to be cut from a sheet. So I do a front, top and side view with the specifications and then prepare the data for the factory. My inspiration comes from just about everything I do; everything is linked. How I feel, the work I do, the people who buy my designs – it’s all in the same system.
More here

The other week, I got to try on a couple of pairs of Graz’s sunglasses at Superette in Auckland. They’re definitely on the ever-growing wishlist. …And Good as Gold in Wellington has the pair that’s at the top of that list.

More posts about Graz:

• 11 December 2008: Graz Mulcahy
• 24 April 2009: Graz Bespoke

I recently bought some new glasses online from Glasses Direct and SelectSpecs

Lots of pictures…

These are Audrey from Glasses Direct in Crystal:

Click for a bigger version:

I got them with photochromic Transitions lenses in them, so when I go outside into the sun, the UV light makes them turn into sunglasses. I’d always thought this was mega-dorky, but the hugeness of these glasses lets me get away with it. Once again, Glasses Direct have really impressed me.

These are Chiredzi from SelectSpecs. They only cost me $8US with prescription lenses:

*Offer only valid online, only for vintage eyewear. Not valid combined with other offers.
Promo code expires 9/23/09.

Let me know if you order anything – I want jpegs!