A year ago, during a usual (not sure they’re ever usual) digging trip in Jura, we found a massive stock of unfinished fronts in a box stamped with the numbers ‘468’ and the name ‘Colbert’. We took them back to Brussels, laid them on our basement floor, with the whole team’s heads pointed downwards, faces […]
For the past two years, we’ve collaborated with IFM BA students on their final graduation collection. Students who were looking to push the boundaries in how and what people wear on their face. For each collaboration, we were lucky enough to be in Paris for the final shows, getting to see frames that had been […]
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of FACTORY900, we’re very excited to announce the upcoming release of 20 archival pieces (across models and colourways) designed by Yoshinori Aoyama between 2002 and 2019. FACTORY900 was launched in 2000 as the in-house brand of Aoyama Optical Co., Ltd. (Sabae, Japan). Aoyama Optical is a small, family-run factory that […]
After seven years of being in our shop, and scanning and photographing countless oddities from the eyewear world, it felt like the right time to put a stamp on it. The result is our very first book, a documentation of the industry we work so closely with, told from our own perspective. “3000 Days of […]
