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Classique Eyewear Intros New Lisa Loeb Styles


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Quick Take: Classique Eyewear has collaborated with singer/songwriter, Lisa Loeb for her latest eyewear collection. Featuring edgier and more refined designs, the collection also incorporates the brand’s signature cat eye shape with a guitar pic-inspired temple tip.
Wearer: Designed for the fans of Lisa Loeb, the collection features more frames for every occasion, day or night.
Specifics: Six new optical styles with style Cake and Pie are available as sunwear. To fit more faces, larger eye sizes are also available.
Selling Points: According to the company, Lisa Loeb works alongside the Classique Eyewear design team to express her artistic visions. As a result, the collection is made from high quality materials including Mazzuchelli Italian acetate, metal and a combination of both. While the color palette represent her love for food and the culinary arts, each style is available in four color variations of classic shades accented by pops of color. Representing Lisa Loeb’s music persona, each frame is named after one of her song titles and sports a unique marbleized purple temple tip, shaped as a guitar pic. This collection can be previewed at Vision Expo West in September 2016.
Price Guide: $$$
www.classique-eyewear.com

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Philly EyeWorks Releases Fun New Styles


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Quick Take: Philly EyeWorks, a new brand of eyewear that celebrates individuality and diversity while remaining affordable, has released new styles for fall/winter 2016.
Wearer: A fun and unique individual who isn’t afraid to try something new.
Specifics: All frames are sandblasted, hand dyed and finished at the company’s workshop in Philly and available as optical or sun styles.
Selling Points: The exclusive collection offers an eclectic array of shapes coupled with an almost endless possibility of color options. Since each frame is colored individually by hand, each frame is one-of-a-kind work of art, the company said. For men and women with smaller to average size faces, the Liberty Bell frame features a classic teardrop or schoolboy shape. With a rounded shape, the Love Train frame works well for men and women looking to make fashion history, the company said. Each style is available in 17 front colors, 11 side colors and two finishes of matte or polish. All frames are available as single vision, non-prescription, readers or sunglasses.
Price Guide: $$
www.phillyeyeworks.com

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SECOND LOOKS

L’Amy America Launches Nicole Miller Jeweled Eyewear


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Quick Take: L’Amy America is launching the new Nicole Miller Jeweled ophthalmic collection for women.
Specifics: Inspired by Nicole Miller’s embellished dresses, the collection features four new styles for today’s sophisticated woman. Each style is available in three colorways.
Selling Points: Subtle stones, both colored and clear, add sparkle and glam to the modern styling of the collection, the company said. With a modern modified cat eye shape, the Amber style features a triple laminate solid or tortoise front coupled with complementary colored temples. The temple is enhanced with two triangle shaped clear crystal stones set in a textured metal design.
Featuring a rounded shape and double layered acetate design, the Bijou has crystals outlined in cutout acetate in various sizes both on the front and temples. Sporting a semi rimless metal front with acetate temples, the inset stones of the Gemma are interspersed with Nicole’s New York City street grate raised metal detail on the temple before transitioning into a rich double laminate. The Esme style features a metal front in a modern shape, with rich acetate contrasting colored temples that feature a textured crisscross wave pattern accented by small complementary colored crystals.
Price Guide: $$$
www.lamyamerica.com

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Candie’s Eyewear Adds New Styles to Collection

The new Candie’s eyewear collection from Marcolin features an array of new styles for today’s Candie’s girl. The collection, consisting of three new optical styles and two sunglass styles, is fun, playful and comes in shapes that are trendy, yet wearable. Optical style CA0500 features a high-definition polka dot pattern that embellishes its temples in dual tones of fuschia and teal. The second optical style, CA050, is a fashionable rectangular metal front, offered in a mix of gradient colorations, including black to plum, plum to pale pink, or brown to teal. The last optical style, CA0502, has a rounded square acetate gradient front in bold strokes of brown to purple, dark fuschia to light fuschia, or navy to light blue. Sun style CA1010 is a retro-inspired design enhanced by its rounded square silhouette in hand-milled acetate. The modified rectangle front of sun style CA1011 shares the same striped pattern as style CA1010 in varying color combinations of black and brown or brown and violet, as well as black over crystal.
www.marcolin.com

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Paperstyle Eyewear Adds Two New Models

Italian brand Paperstyle has added two new models to its optical collection. The trendy glasses are handmade and use renewable raw materials such as paper, leather or wool. Each Paperstyle frame is handmade in South Tyrol and is light, comfortable, sturdy and durable eyewear. Style Paolo is a superlight frame made of multi-colored paper with the exterior made of paper specially designed for the brand. Foia is a round-shape unisex style that’s versatile enough to come as both sunglasses and eyeglasses. Foia is available in different colorways such as graffiti, vintage and black—among others.
www.paper-style.it

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