Black Eyewear goes big with the Zoot, a pair of wild sunglasses. Ostensibly a simple pair of tortoiseshell sunglasses, Black Eyewear takes the retro look to its natural apex with big wide arms, thick design, and dark amber colored lenses. Available online now.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but these look like a blatant rip-off of the Chronicles Of Never/Graz – Origin Of Light sunglasses. Blatant rip-off.
Oooh, it could be. We’re not about to call them out on it, however. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy these days.
Well, one could easily accuse Graz of copying Cutler & Gross’ 0163 frame, or Dries van Noten’s frames, or any number of unknown framemakers that developed the style in the 30s…