BALLOON

Maximalist frames, like accessories or jewels, with expressions that vary depending on the models and the colors. The final touch that offers features a bit of most-welcomed extravagance and confidence.

This all-acetate concept features its very distinctive “balloon” spherical hinge in titanium, thus inevitably made in Japan (those who know, know), BALLOON frames have a pop dimension to them, and yet remain very chic, shamelessly nodding to the 70s while maintaining a signature look. The resin points on the fronts and temple tips, the rounded backs of the faces, the temples where volumes and lines invert: flats become rounded, round becomes flat, creating an effect that surprises and intrigues.

With different processes at play, BALLOON frames create echoes and correspondences of forms. The square is rounded, the geometries are sculptural, and the whole ensemble has a playful candy-like quality, balanced by sophisticated temples…

Everything in the shine, the gloss, the bouncy ergonomics, makes these frames extremely pleasant to wear, or even to hold in your hands, eyes daydreaming, a smile on your lips. Harper’s Bazaar at heart, they would have made a certain fashion icon overjoyed. RIP Iris Apfel (1921-2024: decades of defying conventions with uniqueness). Glamour and love to you, Iris.