FOUREYES ON AGE EYEWEAR

It's not too often that we hear about new New Zealand eyewear labels, so we were pretty happy to come across Age Eyewear. We were first introduced to the brand a few months ago by its designer and creator, Hollie Reedy. We checked them out at the time and were pretty impressed. Hollie returned to NZ from London recently after running a vintage store there with an extensive eyewear selection, an experience that contributed to her decision to start up the vintage-influenced Age.

Recently, Hollie gave us the chance to have a play with the entire range of her latest designs. With 40 + glasses to try out, we had a major play and picked out a few of our favourites.

All the shapes play on or reference a vintage aesthetic but are distinctly modern and unique, not getting too caught up in reproducing retro styles. They all feel super well-made and solid too. We particularly like the subtle colour choices and custom made acrylics that give the range a refined point of difference.

Age is starting to hit stockists around NZ now and they're also available online here.

Scroll down to see our favourites (along with some gratuitous animated GIF action, naturally.)

FOUREYES ON ZAMBESI EYEWEAR

We attended Zambesi's debut eyewear collection launch this week and got to see the products of a collaboration between eyewear designer Joshua Matta and Zambesi. Described as "mildly masculine", there are three sun and three optical styles. The industrial design aesthetic coupled with the use of premium materials such as Japanese acetate and hand-dyed lenses resulted in some very elegant and contemporary frames - which we will surely see on the streets this Spring.

We loved the use of mis-matched coloured lenses in the sunglasses which added a quirky but stylish touch. FOUREYES' favourite styles were: Alex - Aeronaut with tint lenses, Chin - Aeronaut with mirror lenses, Danny - Space Cadet with mirror lenses, Mino - Jetson with mirror lenses. For more info on the range, check out the Zambesi Eyewear website.

The launch took the form of an installation with models wrapped in bed sheets, lounging on beds in these great frames - take a look at what we saw below.