You probably know the story of Marcolin and Balenciaga?! The Italian eyewear manufacturer acquired the eyewear license and once the first collection was designed and ready for production, the fashion house surprised with a change of designer. Alexander Wang took over from Nicolas Ghesquière and, of course, wanted to design his own eyewear line. The result was that we had to wait a few years before the launch of the first Balenciaga by Marcolin eyewear collection. But everything is ready for take-off now. The winter collection of Balenciaga shows a lot of “marble” motives which we can also see in the first (sun)glasses. In this promotion video you even see a piece of eyewear cut from a large piece of marble. Beautiful and suggestive but not the real thing. The real (sun)glasses are covered with leather which creates the same kind of “marble” effect. Eyewear for the happy few and soon for sale at an exclusive network of carefully selected top opticians.
