#american optical

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Ryan Gosling wearing American Optical Pilot sunglasses in The Nice Guys.

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• Sunglasses.

Date: 1950's

Designer: Elsa Schiaparelli (Italian (active in France), 1890–1973)

Manufacturer: American Optical

Medium: Plastic, glass lenses

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The Best Looking Eyes Under the Sun...

   Outdoor Eyewear by American Optical, 1961

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1948 American Optical

via Retrofair Vintage Ads & Prints

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For your eyes only: Cini Boeri

In 1973, Lella and Massimo Vignelli contacted a group of designers to make sunglass design proposals for a new “Designer’s Line” for American Optical. We have some correspondence between the Vignellis and the designers, as well as sketches and prototypes of the various ideas for the sunglasses. The project was delayed by a company reorganization at American Optical, but we aren’t sure if any of these designs were actually manufactured.

The designers included were: Ettore Sottsass, Marc Held, Hans Hollbein, Cini Boeri, Pentagram, Roger Tallon, Gae Aulenti, Achille Castiglioni, Marco Zanusco, and Nick Roericht. 

Here we are featuring the proposed designs by Cini Boeri, the only other woman designer in the group. Stay tuned as we show you some of the creative designs that were proposed by some of the other designers! And as we try to unravel the story of the “Designer’s Line.”

American Optical “Designer’s Line” project Box 467, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers Vignelli Center for Design Studies Rochester, New York

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INSTAGRAM CHIC: LADY GAGA IN GUNS N’ ROSES

“That's a wrap on #AStarIsBorn Flowers for my directors and producers.🎥🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹absolutely a dream team“ Lady Gaga happily announced via Instagram along with a photo of her picking up flower bouquets from the back of her red truck.

Gaga is wearing a very rare vintage Guns N’ Roses tee, which I unfortunately have no photos of for you. 

The tee says “Appetite for Destruction” and shows a skull pierced with syringes, candles and bullets on the front. 

She’s also rocking Saint Laurent’s classic skinny black denim five pocket jeans.

Her sunglasses are the classic pilot aviators by American Optical ($99). These feature silver frame with smoke grey lens and bayonet temple arms.

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American Optical Classic Pilot Aviators ($99.00)

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How to look glamorous in glasses. American Optical Company, 1959