Each season, sunwear tests the limits on how daring and different it can be. And every time we discover there are absolutely no restrictions. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again, sunwear is THE ultimate accessory. With these inspiring and luxurious sun styles, there’s something for everyone looking to up their style game with frames filled with fashion, fun and technology all wrapped in one.
–Victoria Garcia
Photographed by Neil Francis Dawson Still life photography by Ned Matura
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POWER SHIELD
It’s not just the shield. It’s what “The Shield” does with other iconic eyewear and sunwear keynotes.
RAG & BONE 1008/S from Safilo
Butterfly Catcher
A shape that signals soft yet angular. Posen, the answer as usual.
ZAC POSEN Vanina from Kenmark Eyewear
Eye Dare You
Being different makes a difference. Love when sunwear causes a style revolution. (As here with some groundbreaking use of colorblocking.)
CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC 1852S from Marchon Eyewear
To Clip But Not To Clip
The sunglass that “looks” like a sun clip declared affirmatively as a trendsetting style institution.
MONCLER 0045 from Marcolin
From left: REEBOK 9004 from FGX International; VINYL FACTORY Scabbia from Mad Vision; KP-218U from Kio Yamato; PLACE CASADESUS from Ahlem Eyewear; STL II NYLON from KREWE
Party Face
Lafont faces the party! Voila!
BROOKLYN PAPILLON from Lafont
Bar One. Bar None.
With its powder-like touch and confident pale coloration, this industrial interpretation of a modern P3 clicks.
MODO 688 from Modo
Golden Opportunity
Texture to the max. Materials to the max. Details to the max. Refinement to the max. All with an innate sense of style.
MASTER from Paradis Collection
Size Matters
Get Ready… Get Set… Go: Here… NOW!
VOGUE 5235-S from Luxottica
Wild is the Wind
State delivers the perfect partnership to runway allies Creatures of the Wind. This union (and look) is ever so solid and… quite proudly Made in America.
CREATURES OF THE WIND Monitor from State Optical
From left: MATSUDA 10611H from Matsuda; VERONIKA WILDGRUBER Briggs from Gramercy Eyewear; RANDY JACKSON S932P from Zyloware; DISCORD from Spy Optic
You First
Teka enters the sunwear arena with full confidence via dropped temples and some strikingly delicate and asymmetrical design detailing.