Oliver Peoples Eyewear

KBL Eyewear Announces Partnership with PRET-A-SURF to Make a Summer Ready Sunglass

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 30, 2011

Unisex retro-inspired sunglass & eyewear brand, KBL has teamed up with vintage inspired swimwear brand PRET-A-SURF to release exclusive frames for summer!

The sunglasses feature a modern take on the classic cateye shape and a bold matte red frame that picks up the trims and prints that Pret-a-Surf so carefully selects. The lenses are NXT polarized, to protect the wearer on the brightest of summer days. The acetate is hand made in Italy offering amazing quality from the very best materials for $250 retail.

KBL was created in 2009 by fashion industry veterans husband and wife, Adam and Kara Mendelsohn. Adam and Kara had worked for many of the fashion industry leaders including Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Oliver Peoples, Thakoon, Zac Posen, etc before launching KBL.

The swimwear and surf line Pret-A-Surf was created by Karen Mulligan and Jillian Demling over the course of a summer in the Hamptons. Demling, an editor at Vogue, and Mulligan, a studio manager for Annie Leibovitz, were inspired by vintage tablecloths, aprons and retro-wallpaper.

Kara met Jill during a meeting at Vogue for KBL. The pair hit it off instantly and were introduced to each-other's respective co-founders. Both are small independent brands, who sharea passion for design, color and most importantly, function and accessibility. Their marriage of surf wear and sunglasses, is one fans of their products will surely love.

Founded in 2009, after over a decade of work developing sunglass and optical designs for the world's top eyewear brands. KBL's mission is to bring customers the same quality and fit, with a fresh design point of view, at half the price. KBL has partnered with the world's premier eyewear manufacturer to bring consistent world class quality. We combine old world hand finishing techniques and new world precise computer aided milling. This makes our finishes cleaner and crisper and frames stay in proper alignment and comfortable longer. We have built our frames from the finest acetate and strongest metal alloys, our lenses are crystal clear, light and impact and scratch resistant, we block 100% of UV rays, we have sourced the most robust hinges and nylon coated screws. All result in a more durable frame. The end result is the worlds best quality - fit - design, at a price for the people. The end result is palpable. Feel it in your hands. KBL is available through the finest etailers and retailers that share our passion for quality and design. Look through our lenses. There truly is a difference.

STUDIO 325: Oliver Peoples glasses

I have recently been lusting and swooning after a chic pair of Oliver Peoples glasses ever since I tried on a tortoise-shell pair in a Brighton optician. A few months later I saw a shop assistant in a fashionable Old Street boutique wearing a similar pair, and knew it was time to for-goe the contact lenses and go back to old-school chunky eyewear.  Above is a melancholic and brooding illustration by artist Paul X Johnson , titled Behold a Pale Horse. His images depict classic beauties in a greyed-out world, brooding into the distance with the obligatory ebony slicked back hair and venomous lips. Below that is an image of actor Gregory Peck, as Atticus Finch in the classic film of To Kill A Mockingbird, which has inspired a new vintage style for Oliver Peoples to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the literary novel.

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