Colab Eyewear

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Colab Eyewear

September 17th, 2008

Australian eyewear chaps, Colab, are bucking the fashion designer trend for shades and giving us a range of unique products designed by leading mixed-media artists such as We Heart Stuff favourite, Eboy. With ‘no rules to follow’ and ‘no target market to appease’, Colab are hoping to push the boundries of fashion design as they take on mass-produced collections from global clothing brands. Each range is strictly limited to 1,000 units and each season the company will work with a new set of ‘guest proffesors’ in their ‘Colabratory’.

Fresh from creating Kanye West’s undeniably impractical eyewear that has been hard to miss of late, French eye-fashion guru Alain Mikli has taken inspiration from, well, himself and re-imagined a look that he defined in the 1980’s. As a young designer in the 80’s, Alain caused a stir in the industry by producing the first ever range of asymmetric shades

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