Speed has no weight. A printed skeleton of the heavy heritage of 90s sports eyewear, haunting the space between raw performance and digital absence. 

Inverted the momentum, carving a reverse-profile sport cat-eye from the ghost of injection-molded history. It shifts the visual center of gravity, creating a structural tension. Equipped with self-tinting Sensity Lenses from Hoya Vision.

Brief

The spring collection drew on 90s aerobics, VHS tapes and the body in motion, without turning into a retro costume. Its main motif was the button elastic, a detail usually hidden inside a garment, brought out as ornament and as construction. The eyewear had to follow the same line: a sports reference, refined, and something heavy made light.

Design

The shape is deliberately a cat-eye. Sports eyewear is rarely feminine, and almost never sexy, and this frame is meant to be both.

The frame is 3D printed in nylon. The shape is hollow, and grooves run along its outer surface, as if air were streaming past it. Nylon is light, and together with the hollow shape the frame is ultralight. The lenses are self-tinting Hoya Sensity.

The frame splits in two at the end piece, and both lines continue past the hinge into a forked temple. The gap between the two arms catches the hair, so the frame holds in the hairstyle as well as on the ear.

MBPFW x Harper’s Bazaar • Hoya Lens •  Video by Randy Cøld