Nowadays, Luxottica from Italy is among the market leaders in the glasses industry. Here Mirjam is posing in a pair made ten years before she was born. The frame was considered "mainstream" in 1980 but it blends nicely with the model's face.
woensdag 6 januari 2016
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Nowadays, Luxottica from Italy is among the market leaders in the glasses industry. Here Mirjam is posing in a pair made ten years before she was born. The frame was considered "mainstream" in 1980 but it blends nicely with the model's face.
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Photo shoot: December 31st, 2015
Location: Amersfoort, the Netherlands
Glasses: Luxottica, made circa 1980
[L: -3.50 / R: -4.50]
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Last summer, Mirjam did a short but wonderful photo shoot for me in a former ice cream factory. Many of the glasses we selected were not yet used so we agreed to do another photo shoot in the near future. This fine portrait and the three preceding photos were taken with my spare camera. I only found them back months later and then decided to postpone the posting until the next photo shoot with Mirjam was scheduled.
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Throughout the 1970's and especially the 1980's, Silhouette from Austria was one of the top brands for glasses. In my opinion, they were in the same league as Christian Dior. The pair shown here by Mirjam was kindly given to me by a lady who always hated her glasses. Surprisingly, she had a fine collection of old glasses and she gave them all to me after I made her acquaintance in 1996. They were of no use to her anymore after a couple of increases in her prescription. Fashion had changed as well. The large frames disappeared from the streets in 1989, making way for small retro glasses. The kind donation spanned a period of nearly 30 years and we managed to reconstruct her glasses history with the help of old pictures. Remarkably, these Silhouette glasses were only used for about a year and a half. The frame was fairly popular in the late 1980's but the lady told me that she never really liked the nose bridge. The glasses are characteristic for the final years of the glorious era of the large frames.
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Photo shoot: July 17th, 2015
Location: Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Glasses: Flair (Jet Set), mid 1980's
[L: +1.25 / R: +1.00]
zaterdag 2 januari 2016
Happy New Year to all viewers !
Lovely Mirjam and her devoted photographer hereby wish all the viewers of this weblog a healthy, happy 2016 !
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