Godfather of Sunglasses
can see your soul.
I just spent the week in the Notting Hill office
Along with Mr Brian McGinn - hard arm Designer and residing Heah Proest of our Doomed Temples.
And Claire 'of blood and bone''Smitty' Goldsmith
Working on the left handed concept of this rotting minds vision of the Frame itself.
translation: we are making a frame together. it will be of high excellence. you wont see it coming.
Go look at their site, otherwise known as THE OFFICIAL HOME PAGE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH SUNGLASSES
When you do that, look at the dates next to each frame.
Oliver Goldsmith made the frames that are still coming out today as... new
This house, and their ninja death assassin army of the night, changed the way you look at glasses.
this is claire. she doesn't hold still.
this is brian... neither does he.
they are very busy.
"Oliver Goldsmith is a family business. It was founded in 1926 by Philip Oliver Goldsmith, a salesman for a small optical firm. Spectacles at the time were uncomfortable, unflattering and uninspiring. The choice of materials was limited to expensive tortoiseshell or cumbersome metal.
Goldsmith set out to transform the way that glasses were both designed and made.
In 1935 Charles Goldsmith entered the family firm. His vision was that glasses could become an item of fashion, especially when worn as sunglasses. Up until then sunglasses were any old pair of specs with tinted lenses. Charles designed glasses that were made to be sunglasses.
His first two customers for the new “sunspecs” were the most prestigious stores in London: Fortnum & Mason and Simpsons of Piccadilly. They sold out within a week. Sunglasses had arrived.
We were the first to see glasses as fashion accessories; the first to make sunspecs; the first to make ‘winter sunglasses’ and the first to work alongside fashion houses to create one-off pieces for the catwalks. We were the first to appear in Vogue and Queen, and the first to be endorsed by celebrities and Royals.
OG pioneered a whole new concept. Eyewear.
By the time of the fashion, style and music revolution of the Sixties a new generation of Goldsmiths had taken to the helm. Andrew Oliver Goldsmith and his brother Ray were as much a part of the swinging Sixties scene as the glasses they created.
The stars who beat a path to Goldsmith’s Poland Street showroom included Grace Kelly, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress and Olivia Newton John. The visitors book they autographed can still be seen today in the Oliver Goldsmith showroom."
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