Christopher Kane and Linda Farrow Vintage

Linda Farrow Vintage teams up with hot new designer Christopher Kane in a hot line of sunglasses furbished with over-sized faux gems and gradient lenses that are both glamourous and young.
Christopher Kane debuted his collection, Expectations superceeding expectations set on this 24 year old Scottish designer named the “New Scottish Designer of the Year”. Kane managed to make an impression with A-listers and celebrities.

Oliver Goldsmith Custom Eyewear

The British eyewear company Oliver Goldsmith, widely considered one of the founders of the concept of fashion eyewear, has been designing eyewear since the 1920's.

With as much of a stock of past designs as that, and their widespread sucess in fashion since the 60's, Oliver Goldsmith has an interesting current approach to manufacture of its eyewear.

They sell many ready to wear editions of their previously designed pieces, such as this "Eddy" model, originally created in 1969 and was favored by Peter Sellers.

One interesting option available, for truly unique eyewear, is to visit their Notting Hill showroom. Here Oliver Goldsmith's has a service starting around £230 that allows clients to pick from any past design in their archive, and customize it with choices of frame material and lens color. Each pair is then handcrafted and fitted to the clients specifications, "this is bespoke at its best."

More Kanye West, Jeremy Scott

Earlier this month we posted about Kanye West's louvered shade sunglasses that were getting all the attention. But we've got an update and a new angle on the issue that no one's really presented yet.

He's wearing 2 different pairs of sunglasses in the Stronger video right? check out around the 1:54 mark and look out for these:


These are the signature series sunglasses that Jeremy Scott designed for the summer 2006 Linda Farrow Vintage eyewear collection. They were available for a while at Colette in Paris for €225, but its doubtful you can find them anymore. Kanye's got a thing for unique frames, and these are pretty bold. But he's equally adept at picking eyewear that's hard to come by these days.

Update:
Look what Mr. West is wearing in the Itunes photo for his new album. These sunglasses are getting even more publicity.