Word: eyewear
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...eyewear manufacturers are blind to these differences. Tom Davies is the founder of London-based firm TD Tom Davies, www.tdtomdavies.com, which specializes in custom-made, fashionable face furniture. He launched his business in 2001 after spending three years designing glasses for brands including Tom Ford, Gucci and Puma. "I was frustrated that my mass-produced frames didn't really fit anyone," he says. "I wanted to create the equivalent of a bespoke suit." That vision has earned Davies fans such as Richard Branson and Kevin Spacey. (See the best new travel products, gadgets and trends...
...reasons. One was his grasp of the surf industry. For three years from 1999, Kingsmill was general manager of beachculture, a retail chain that grew on his watch from eight to 21 stores in Australia and New Zealand. In 2005, he bought into former ironman Guy Leech's eyewear company Odyssey 20/20, which the pair sold the following year as a market leader...
During today's march towards immortality, Phelps' strongest opponent was his eyewear. During the final half of the butterfly race, his goggles filled up with water. "I couldn't see the wall," says Phelps. "They were getting more and more full throughout the race. I just hoped I was coming in first. I was kind of upset that it happened...
...capture scenes of Paris flourishing under Nazi rule. Zucca's bosses' gave him extremely rare and valuable rolls of Agfacolor film to shoot his busy shoppers, café-lounging lovers, parks filled with parents and playing children, and ultra-chic Parisiennes sporting the last word in fashionably enormous eyewear...
Artistic Eyes Not content with designing magazine pages and perfume bottles, creative director Fabien Baron introduces a collection of eyewear for Modo. Handcrafted in Japan, each of the 14 styles is made of either block acetate or block titanium...