For the new season, FACE À FACE designers continue to explore the Italian Memphis movement with four surprising and impertinent designs starring in this playful, poetic collection. It draws inspiration from the art movement that emerged in Italy in the 1980s, with the aim of reinventing it.
Each of these innovative designs is permeated by a rebellious energy, offering a new look. From the rainbow-shaped, sculpted curves of bold NOVVA to the supercharged energy of subtle and extravagant ASHOKA, this collection intends to reinvent reality and push its boundaries in sunglasses and spectacles that flirt with magic and the improbable. The allusion to the Memphis movement is multiplied and expressed by a flamboyant palette: ultra-graphic materials contrasting with solid colours – enlivened by teasing confrontations designed as a game and a visual dialogue.
Reinvent yourself, reinvent it all. Break the codes and push the boundaries of the possible. Be where no one expects you with FACE À FACE.
Dare to be anything and reinvent yourself with ASHOKA!
These highly feminine, glamorous sunglasses offer a sharp, vibrant tribute to Ettore Sottsass’ work: zany, exaggerated, but perfectly balanced, these glasses seem to have been sculpted from the materials – with subtlety. Is this a high-wire fashion statement? A spectacular creation to be worn as an edgy work of art? Both, you’ll see!
– Handmade in France
– Five-piece hinge
– Two shapes: a cat eye and a square
– Sunglasses with details in the acetate
– Ashoka, a nod to the eponymous lamp
designed by Ettore Sottsass
– Coloured parentheses evoke the essence of the lamp
– Beveling and bonding at the side of the eye
Dive into the starry explosive skies of NOVVA.
The design of these sunglasses is both playful and elegant, promising to launch you as near to the stars as possible. Like an expanding supernova, these glasses reveal their originality through their step-sculpted form in the shape of a rainbow. Ready for your impending take-off to the heavenly vault?
– Handmade in Italy
– Five-piece hinge
– Two shapes: a hexagon and a circle
– “Nova” means new in Italian
(a nod to the birthplace of the Memphis movement).
– Sculpted rainbow on the upper frame
– Bonded basic sculptural shapes specific to Memphis
– Geometric-chic detail on the temple tip
SHADOW: Sophisticated eyewear for the determined man.
FACE À FACE is for the man who is ready to embrace a new approach to sunglasses that is as sophisticated as they are charismatic! These precisely crafted sunglasses reveal a lens that seems to float in the middle of the frame. Solid and sleek, the SHADOW model plays with appearances to help you get out of the shadows: just show yourself!
– Handmade in Italy
– Two-tone acetate with 5-piece hinge
– Three shapes:
a small square, a rectangle and a pilot rectangle
– Floating sunglasses in a transparent shell
– Glass edge bevel
– Very wide, statuesque temple arm
– Sophisticated, extra-stylish glasses
Explore the cosmos with STELLA!
In an interplay of spinning triangles, this design concept evokes the tips of a star… Alternatively, it can be interpreted as a colourful raised design shaping the frame front like opening quotation marks to better emphasise the telling of your story: A star is born! These stellar sunglasses seem to have fallen from the sky to land on your nose and give you the look and feel you deserve. Reinvent yourself as a star and explore the cosmos with STELLA!
– Handmade in Italy
– Two-tone acetate with 5-piece hinge
– Two shapes: hexagonal and cat eye
– Stella means star in Italian
– Sunglasses for a stellar look!
– A set of triangles to create a star
– Colourful details shape the frame front
– Faceted and pointed model
About Face à Face
THE INSPIRATION – THE STYLE
Far from standardized fashion diktats and conformist trends , each collection asserts its artistic temperament , drawing its inspiration from the sources of Modern Art, architecture and contemporary design
FACE A FACE frames are developed within the design studio directed by Pascal Jaulent resembling small subtle pieces of architecture, playing with volumes, shapes, material and textures.
DON’T BE FOOLED BY THE PHYSICAL WORLD
Experience the dream filled with awe inspiring light, optical illusion, controlled deconstructions, and intrigue. Truly a paradigm shift.
FACE A FACE: a creator brand of new form fused with artistic beauty and intricate design forms a new-fangled vision of the world.
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