Straight out of CHANEL’s own galaxy, the eyewear for Fall 2017 oscillates between neo-retro and futuristic styles.
First seen on the runway at the Fall-Winter 2017/18 Ready-to-Wear show, the sunglasses adopt futuristic shapes and respond to the galactic line of the collection. An ultra-original XXL curved mask design resembles the visor on an astronaut’s helmet. In a black nylon fibre with silver lenses it is joined by a second mask that’s just as enveloping and entirely encircled with metal.
Seen in three different frames – mask, pilot and butterfly, cleverly endowed with sunglass lenses that are attached magnetically onto the optical lenses with streamlined appearance and with neo-retro accents. Encased in pale pink, taupe, khaki or black leather, or fabric in silver or gold, the frames play with the lightest of metals in a pilot, square and rounded shape. The delicate temples are interwoven with a plastic thread and discreetly signed with a metal CC.
The ultra-feminine cat-eye sunglasses enhanced with glass eyebrows from the Summer 2017 collection are back again as a rounded or graphic square version. The tortoiseshell acetate and the lenses in 18-karat rose gold are among the new features of the line. On the optical side, the frames are softer and subtly highlight the line of the eyebrow. Their temples elegantly mix gold or silver metal with black, tortoiseshell and bright red acetate for a look that’s smartly edgy.
