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VISAGE
Karen Walker’s Monumental eyewear continues to define a certain throwback classicism; with shapes, colours and proportions referencing fashion icons and the iconoclastic alike. In Visage, we find her taking her lines from a Cocteau sketchbook, mannish figures depicted with languid, knowing sensuality. Translated to the modern day, metal and acetate has never looked so deliciously louche. These are the sunglasses Robert Mapplethorpe would have worn if he’d ever got his skinny white ass out of Manhattan to take in the sun on the French Riviera.
Insouciant, but still subtle, the proportions of Visage are restrained, and God is in the details. The mid-century modernist bridge and the tapered point at the hinges of new style Klee revisits Cannes in the 1950s. Ali – rectangular, clean lenses with metal frames, possesses the spare, economical power of the lines of 1960s mod.
These two shapes both come in new colour combinations. While Klee mixes up Crazy Tort with a sunset tint lens, black with a blue tint or smoke lens and shiny crystal seagrass acetate with a khaki tint lens, Ali is in bronze metal with a blue tint mono or black metal with a sunset tint lens.
Monumental by Karen Walker: Visage launches on October 3, 2018 and will be available in all Karen Walker stores, karenwalker.com and Monumental by Karen Walker stockists worldwide.
Klee in Crazy Tort
KLEECRAZY TORT | SUNSET TINT
1821923
KLEESEAGRASS | KHAKI TINT MONO
1821922
KLEEBLACK | BLUE TINT MONO
1821924
KLEEBLACK | SMOKE MONO POLARISED
1821925
VISAGE
Ali in Black
ALIBLACK | SUNSET TINT
1821927
MULTI FIT
ALIBRONZE | BLUE TINT MONO
1821926
MULTI FIT
VISAGE
HEMINGWAYVINTAGE CLEAR | GREEN MONO
1723210
HEMINGWAYCRYSTAL GREY CLEAR | SMOKE MONO
1723212
HEMINGWAYBLACK | SMOKE MONO POLARISED
1723209
RETAINED STYLES
RETAINED
JULIUSBLACK | SMOKE MONO
1723205
RETAINED
PABLOBLACK | SMOKE MONO
1723213
PABLOCRAZY TORT | SMOKE MONO POLARISED
1723214
PABLOVINTAGE CLEAR | GREEN MONO
1723215
RETAINED
RETAINED
ALIMATTE BLACK | SMOKE MONO
1821920
MULTI FIT
WILDEHORN WITH BLACK | SMOKE MONO POLARISED
1821904
WILDECRAZY TORT | BLUE SMOKE MONO
1821905
WILDEVINTAGE CLEAR | GREEN MONO POLARISED
1821906
RETAINED
BURROUGHSBLACK | SMOKE MONO POLARISED
1821908
RETAINED
JACKSONMATTE GOLD | GREEN MONO POLARISED
1821919
MULTI FIT
JACKSONMATTE BLACK | SMOKE MONO
1821918
MULTI FIT
RETAINED
RETAINED
APOLLOCRAZY TORT | SMOKE MONO
1821915
MULTI FIT
GOULDBLACK | SMOKE MONO
1821912
MULTI FIT
GOULDVINTAGE CLEAR | GREEN MONO
1821913
MULTI FIT
GOULDHORN | COPPER MONO
1821914
MULTI FIT
RETAINED
RETAINED
VOLTAIREBLACK | SMOKE MONO POLARISED
1723201
TRAVISCRAZY TORT | GREEN MONO POLARISED
1821901
TRAVISHORN WITH BLACK | SMOKE MONO
1821900
RETAINED
Klee in Black
Klee in Seagrass
Klee in Black
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