Marly-Sport

Gainsbourg's iconic mask-like black acetate frame by Fidela: the Marly-Sport.
This is the side-view of Gainsbourg's iconic mask-like black acetate frame by Fidela: the Marly-Sport. It has very short temples and double rivets both on the front and on the temple.
This is the rest of the colors of the Pierre Marly, Marly-Sport frames from the 70's. You know the black one as Serge Gainsbourg's iconic frames.

Characteristics

ManufacturerFidela
Made inFrance
Period1970s
BrandFIDELA (Les Fils d'Aimé Marly)
TechnicalSuper curved, mask-like shape

DISCOVERY

LocationMorez (FR)
YearN/A
Digging TypeN/A

The Marly-Sport by FIDELA were created for the optician and glasses designer Pierre Marly in the 1970s. These would become Serge Gainsbourg’s iconic frames. We found a handful of them in a wide-ranging stock from the from the Morezian manufacture, all of them unmarked and unfinished.

Archive: A poster ad for the Marly-Sport frame in different colors. We happen to also own the white one in our own little private museum.

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