MY GLASSES
“I have almost always worn glasses since I was 14 years old. At the time, these were called "prostheses" because the choice was limited and not very pleasant... Having glasses was a constraint or even a punishment. I remember the first pair I had on my driver's license photo ID. After vainly combing through the selection of the optician on boulevard Guisthau in Nantes, I had fallen back on the simplest, most classic and most elegant frame in my eyes... defective; A pair of RAY BAN "aviator" gold.
Nearly 40 years later I wear almost the same ones. Yet I have changed like the world ... but this pilot form sticks to my skin. After the contact lenses, the ultra curved plastic sports frames from my sailing and surfing years, without forgetting the ultra-typical acetate glasses that "dressed up" my face, I ended up going back to my first loves, which are these frames. in metal, finer, more balanced and more respectful of the facial anatomy. LA Eyeworks, Oliver People, Dita... all the coolest brands I've worn them all. Until the day I discovered this shop on La Bréa Avenue in Los Angeles reselling old stocks from the 70s; Givenchy, Cartier, Logos... and so many other nuggets from the cellars of often French or Italian eyewear manufacturers.
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So I only wore these vintage metal frames with affection but also the satisfaction of not having the same ones as everyone else, I admit. These "Deadstock" glasses from another era were what I like to call the "fair balance between too much and not enough". Neither too much nor too little. Often very simple, but always detailed and often very distinctive... My return to the past had begun. By no longer wearing more than tinted glasses from morning to night, he became assumed. Like a chromatic signature claimed in order to see life, my life, in green...
Designing my own glasses was obviously an extension of my ocular adventure. My most intimate wish for this fetish accessory. Especially since I was one of the architects and developers of the eyewear division of the Quiksilver brand.
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With Jérôme, founder of the sublime and disruptive brand Jacques Marie Mage and founding partner of March LA.B, we therefore thought of the frame of my dreams. A thin two-tone branch with integrated flex equipped with green sleeves. A double bridge of chiseled pads. The omnipresence of intertwined lines. The March LA.B signature is respected. Two different shapes responding to the names of prestigious districts of Los Angeles and Biarritz and available in a mixture of gold and steel so emblematic of those past years. The BRENTWOOD, a pretty, slightly planed size 56 pilot last. The MIRAMAR, a more rectangular and furiously retro frame in size 57. Both assembled exclusively with green lenses ranging from category 1 to 3 because "we don't change...". Simple, elegant, old-fashioned and easy to wear glasses.”
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