l.a.Eyeworks

CLC | l.a.Eyeworks

A glance back at l.a.Eyeworks accessorizing Corey Lynn Calter's S/S Collection at New York Fashion Week.

Kowalski & Big Wheel

 

O'Connell & Rerun

 

Toluca

(Photos by Joe Kohen/Getty Images for Corey Lynn Calter)

BARCELONA'S BEST!

If you're heading to Spain this summer (or looking for a reason to go), perhaps this stunning display of l.a.Eyeworks designs at the beautiful Optica del Bulevard in Barcelona will give you the perfect excuse!

Thank you for the beautiful display (using our favorite pink, no less!) . . . and inspiration!

 

l.a.Eyeworks | L.A. Times

l.a.Eyeworks carries the banner for independent optical design in today's Los Angeles Times feature article on the state of eyeglasses.

Photo: Los Angeles Times

Pictured above are Pep from the Fiction by l.a.Eyeworks collection and Catnip by l.a.Eyeworks.

Don't forget to join us on Facebook and Twitter!

 

TUFFY TIMES

Tarlan Ghavami, the legendary manager and master optician of the l.a.Eyeworks mothership store on Melrose Avenue, is profiled in Vision Monday wearing Tuffy, one of our stunning designs in perforated stainless steel that's starting a new wave in eyewear!

 

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!

FUTURE MEMORY FRAME: RAKE

If the world of cultural book publishing had a capitol, it would probably be called Taschen. And keeping watch over the kingdom would be Taschen Books' esteemed Executive Editor, Jim Heimann (don't forget to add "cultural anthropologist, graphic design historian, and expert on LA" to the CV). And if Jim was looking at you, he'd be doing it through a classic pair of "Rake" eyeglasses, designed by l.a.Eyeworks in 1995. Groundbreaking design meets groundbreaking publishing -- no surprise that the editors of 944 Magazine selected Heimann as a "trailblazer" in the City of Angels.

  
Source: 944 Magazine / Photography: Tony Byrd

Rake's elaborate colorways rescued tortoise shell frames from a sea of brown, transforming boring and bookish into striking and stylish.

 
Rake by l.a.Eyeworks (1995)

FRENCH DRESSING

In honor of Bloomsday, we submit this photo of Dylan T en Paris looking quite Joycean in his l.a.Eyeworks Hanko frame.

photo credit: Screaminglulu

Dylan is the nephew of frame-styling expert Barbara Hamme at Rims & Goggles in beautiful San Francisco, California!

Channel your inner expatriate with Hanko!

 

Hanko by l.a.Eyeworks in Havana Matte

LIFE'S A KITSCH

Louvre schmoove! The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch is the place to kitsch your wagon to a starry sky of phantasmagoric paraphenalia and piles of pop culture pishposh -- including a whopping selection of eyeglass holders.

 
[where the museum director parks her Perkins by l.a.Eyeworks]

Not content with writing smash-hit songs, tending to her superb wardrobe of sassy socks and gorgeous glasses, and being one of the legendary party hosts of Los Angeles (the New York Times concurs!), Allee has turned her troves of terrifically tacky tidbits (Elvis Pez dispensers! Kleenex cozies! The E-Z Dog Dryer!) into a visionary portal where the vintage lunch boxes are inspirational and the online admission is always free.

  

 
[At the l.a.Eyeworks store on Beverly Boulevard, museum director/curator Allee Willis (left) focuses her Fortuna on Prudence Fenton (right), who thought the Vic frame so nice she wore it twice!]

All Photos: Allee Willis

 

IN IT TO QUINN IT

With their eyes on this season's affection for all things be-spotted and polka-dotted, our friends at Vision Monday could not ignore the sweet sensation of l.a.Eyeworks' Quinn.

 
photo detail: Black Box Studio for Vision Monday

If the cherry/grape flavor above looks tasty, your tastebuds will tremor for tangy orange:

 
Confection perfection!

CAPTURE THE RAPTURE

 
Just like Greg Gorman did in his smoldering glam portrait of Debbie Harry!

Debbie's wearing a frame from the treasured Pluto series -- milled aluminum with anodized finishes in sizzling magenta, electric green, and neon lime. Interstellar innovation.

 
 
 

Before your orbit goes into overdrive, sorry to say the Plutos have left the solar system into the universe of legend and memory. If you still have one, you are a true vintage vanguard!