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 quietly worked on in the shop for months finally come to life on the runway.

Last year, we worked with Amandine Leost, whose collection was built on the spirit of the 60s and 80s, drawn from the world of second-hand flea market, where vintage patterns, brights colours and offbeat shapes come together in a perfectly kitsch harmony.

She had reached out to us with a vision for oversized glasses, reflecting on the rest of her collection, enhancing unexpected silhouettes with both humour and freedom. We dug into our stock and pulled out a few standout frames from Thierry (Morbier, FR, 1970s) that felt just right. After some back-and-forth on design and specs, together with Amandine we carefully reworked them, dissecting the originals and transforming them into nylon-mount-style frames, ready to hold some truly gigantic 70mm lenses.

This year, we were able to help Paul Molina, whose collection moves between inherited identity and the self we imagine for ourselves growing up. Drawing on personal memories, family garments and worn domestic fabrics to build a language of intimacy passed down through generations. Into that familiar world creeps a nocturnal imaginary, a world of desire and transformation inspired by cinema and literature, where the night offers the space to become someone else. The collection moves between sleepwear and tailoring, childhood and adulthood, embracing imbalance through oversized volumes, aged fabrics and instinctive styling choices. Clothing becomes both memory and a disguise; identities that stay fluid and unsettled, where no dress code is truly respected, and eyewear is part of that.

We could step in for this last step, re-working protective masks for athletes into an eyewear accessory, replacing their usual elastic straps with temples from our back stock – Robert Morel (Jura, FR) for the transparent ones and an unknown stock from Morez (Jura, FR) for the black ones.