![]() The Cat Eye can be adapted and modified to be a quirky frame expressing style as seen on Frenchie in the 1978 Grease Frenchie. Like every fashion trend, Cat Eyes dip in and out of popularity but variations of the Cat Eye have remained popular similar to the round frame, the aviator and the wayfarer as staple fashionable glasses styles. During the ’60s and ’70s came the Cat Eye became more and more exaggerated with small tinted lenses which turned up towards the outside of the face. The supermodels and icons of the 50’s and ’60s were then repeatedly spotted in this iconic frame making it a must-have style as seen on Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor. The Cat Eye was first introduced as an optical frame but then Audrey Hepburn made the Cat Eye sunglasses an iconic look in her hit film Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961. These were a fresh new style which was completely different from the original 50’s classic frames and was part of a whole new fashion era for women. ![]() But, where did the style originate from? The Cat Eye first became fashionable in the 1950s. ![]() The sunglasses inspired by the Fall-Winter 2020/21 Ready-to-Wear runway show however will be available in boutiques at the same time as the collection in September 2020.Ĭheck also: Chanel launches the new iconic campaign of J12.Cat Eye glasses are one of our bestselling shapes at Fashion Eyewear. Discover the CHANEL Fall 2020 eyewear collection from the month of June. Volumes exaggerated in relief, an insert of tone-on-tone metal framing the entire lens structure, a perfect monochrome right up to the double C… With a nylon frame for increased lightness, these butterfly glasses adopt a sporty chic allure. An optical pantos shape in silver, pale or antique gold titanium comes with blue light-blocking lenses.įinally, a design inspired by the Fall-Winter 2020/21 Ready-to-Wear runway show completes the sunglasses collection. This season it is dressed with a “tweed” motif on an oversized pair of butterfly-shaped sunglasses, available in matte black, gold or brown. Introduced last year for the first time in the CHANEL eyewear collections, titanium is a lightweight material that is both resistant and hypoallergenic. All of them come in black, transparent, dark taupe, raspberry or smoky grey acetate. ![]() Three frames are completed with these precious temples: a new XL round shape and a butterfly shape for the sunglasses, as well as a rectangular optical. Through a feat of extraordinary technicality, the metal structure that holds each temple melts – for the first time – into a weave of metallic threads, positioned between two acetate plaques, breathing a spirit of jewelled sophistication into this design. Just as it meets every desire in fashion, tweed also lends itself to every innovation. Added to this line is a pair of pantos sunglasses with lenses outlined with metal. A second option in metal, with an XL pantos shape is enhanced with a “tweed” pattern over the bridge and at the double C of the temples. Feminine and easy to wear, this frame comes as a classic optical version or with blue light-blocking lenses. The “tweed” metal insert also highlights the angles of a pair of cat eye sunglasses in black, brown, green or tortoiseshell acetate, forming a parenthesis of light up to the temples. Embossed on metal, reinterpreted as a metallic weave or engraved on titanium, this collection is signed with the tweed motif and its contrasts between strength and delicacy, feminine and masculine lines, sobriety and sophistication.įor the first chapter of the Fall 2020 eyewear collection, tweed has been embossed onto a plaque in gold, silver or ruthenium-coloured metal, that adorns the sides of an XL rectangular sunglasses frame in a black, burgundy, taupe or tortoiseshell dense, facetted acetate, the temples embellished with a double C. Tweed, CHANEL’s emblematic fabric, is the inspiration for the Fall 2020 Eyewear collection.
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