l.a.Eyeworks

L.A.EYEWORKS GETS BLEACHED!

L.A. sister-band Bleached sport l.a.Eyeworks for the premiere of their first video "Searching Through the Past", directed by one of our favorite visual acrobats, Molly Schiot.

Video Stills: Molly Schiot

We're amped to be on the launchpad with SoCal sisters Jennifer and Jessica Clavin who selected a Yup in Foam Wood and a vintage Cornu to complement the slammin' groove of their sun-drenched premiere.

Bleached video premieres on Spin.com here

Bleached info, tracks & tour are here and here and here

Molly Schiot greatness here

 

FRAMED by The New York Times

FRAMED: Greg Gorman for l.a.Eyeworks is highlighted in the T Magazine design & culture section of today's New York Times!

FRAMED: GREG GORMAN FOR L.A.EYEWORKS

l.a.Eyeworks is proud to announce the publication of FRAMED: Greg Gorman for l.a.Eyeworks, an extensive and lavishly printed survey of Greg Gorman's timeless artistry, and a catalogue of the provocative personalities that have defined l.a.Eyeworks' idiosyncratic take on contemporary culture from 1982 to the present.

RuPaul / Mickey Rourke

As a spectacular demonstration of Gorman's signature command of the black and white portrait, FRAMED presents a fleet of 171 fabulous faces transformed by the groundbreaking eyewear designs of Barbara McReynolds and Gai Gherardi for l.a.Eyeworks.

Chaka Khan

 FRAMED: Greg Gorman for l.a.Eyeworks (Grafiche Damiani, 2011 / hardcover / 192 pages) includes a foreword by Ingrid Sischy and introductory essays by David Fahey, Greg Gorman, Barbara McReynolds and Gai Gherardi, Rose Apodaca, Jeff Gorman, and Gary Johns. FRAMED is available for purchase in the U.S. at www.laeyeworks.com/framed & at l.a.Eyeworks retail stores in Los Angeles. For purchase inquiries worldwide, please contact framed@laeyeworks.com.





 

DAY WITHOUT ART/WORLD AIDS DAY

For the 22^nd consecutive year, l.a.Eyeworks honors Day With(out) Art / World AIDS Day as a moment to remember those who have gone before us, to witness for acceptance and respect, and to embrace the endurance of hope.

As part of our activities, l.a.Eyeworks invited many friends from the creative and services communities to contribute a song of their choosing to comprise a Day Without Art playlist to be heard throughout the day in our retail stores in Los Angeles. We are honored by everyone who took the time to suggest a song, and we express our gratitude to the artists who created the music.

Download a copy of the playlist here:

Download 2011_LAE_DayWithoutArt_WorldAIDSDay_Playlist_FFV

Here are a few selections made by our truly amazing friends:

Ann Magnuson (Performer/Writer) Being Boring • Pet Shop Boys “In honor of all the vanished friends and family who I shared those wonderful times with; times when we were never being boring. I miss you all so very much.”

Marc Pally (Art Worker) When the Saints Go Marching In • Louis Armstrong  “We're not all saints but we will all go marching in.  The sheer joyful defiance of this song and the associated parades and marches that go along with it are America's greatest and most honest acknowledgement of death and its continuities.”

Scott Campbell (Executive Director, Elton John AIDS Foundation) You’ve Got the Love • Florence + the Machine “I am an activist committed to making an impact in changing our world, particularly through the prism of HIV and moving us to the end of this epidemic. And what a great refrain on World AIDS Day . . . ‘But, you’ve got the love I need to see me through!’.”

Daniel Joseph Martinez (Artist) The Flower of Carnage • Meiko Kaji

Rose Apodaca  (A+R co-owner / Writer / Mom to Nina) La Vie en Rose • Grace Jones “Every day has its thorns, some more stinging than others. But life is always better with the champagne glass half full.”

 

 

POP LEGEND

Renowned l.a.Eyeworker emeritus, Ruth Handel, gives martini-strength frame fabulousness at the book signing for Fred Hayman: The Extraordinary Difference (penned by our lovely friend Rose Apodaca) at the splashy new Caulfield's restaurant at the Thompson Hotel in -- where else? -- Beverly Hills . . . this is the story of Giorgio! after all!

Photo Credit: the divine Linlee Allen

The soiree deets are yours to explore here and here. And if you're ready to bop Ruth's style, you can bet the coat and bracelets are vintage treasures, so good luck. The eyewear, however:

Pop in Toy Blue Wood from the Fiction by l.a.Eyeworks collection!

Insert [Whatever Song Makes You Think Envious Thoughts of California] here:

Winter surf at the Malibu shore, and a sighting of the Vic sunglass in Butterscotch, l.a.Eyeworks' super limited-edition (and now virtually sold out) sunglass collaboration with the stylish masterminds at TenOverSix!

Photo Credit: alphabeticeyelids.posterous.com

Vic / TenOverSix & Fiction by l.a.Eyeworks

 

 

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Alien Pumpkins have landed at Rancho l.a.Eyeworks!

D'OR KNOCKER

As the optical world's equivalent of the Oscars, l.a.Eyeworks is mighty proud to have our frame Rialto nominated for a "Silmo d'Or" at the forthcoming Silmo exhibition in Paris. We're sort of the Susan Lucci of the Silmo d'Or awards, so who knows, maybe this year we'll party like Susan did in 1999.

 
 

WE 32ND THAT EMOTION!

Happy Anniversary, l.a.Eyeworks! From the original whim on September 9, 1979, to the magnificent now, we gratefully raise our glasses to all our friends and fans in the wide world, with the following wish:

MAY YOU ALWAYS VER AMOR.

 
 

The l.a.Eyeworkers

SCISSOR SISTER

Last chance this weekend to catch the final four performances of the incomparable Ennio Marchetto at the Pasadena Playhouse. Miss this, and cry paper tears for a long, long time . . .

Here's the maestro himself posing with our celebratory window at l.a.Eyeworks on Beverly Boulevard!

 
This amazing window wonder was created for l.a.Eyeworks by Sosthen Hennekam, designer of Ennio's magnificent menagerie of quick-change paper costumes (not to mention he's the show's director, lighting/sound designer, and beyond!).

Ennio is posing with his new Tuba sunglass by l.a.Eyeworks.

Ennio also belongs to the rarefied club of special sparklers who have appeared twice in the l.a.Eyeworks portrait ad campaign. Here's the original shot: