Fashion Eyewear
Tom Ford Eyewear
The Designs
Tom Ford reveals his line of optical frames and sunglasses with a focus on meticulous craftsmanship and attention to detail. Offering a collection of ophisticated styles for men and women, Ford brings his trademark clean lines and sensuality to a sleek signature eyewear collection. The Tom Ford Collection offers a selection of men’s, women’s, and unisex frames that are characterized by luxury and singularity.
Says Ford, “I wanted the same newness and creative design in the optical frames that I have in my sunglass collection. I like a substantial design with luxe details. The frames feel very contemporary, but there is a sense of history.”
Designs vary from architectural plastics to weightless metals featuring innovative shapes that underscore sensuously curved silhouettes to subtly squared and aviator styles featuring a metal double bridge that conveys a retro look. Colors range from metal tones of shiny rose gold, gunmetal and palladium to more traditional shades of high gloss black acetate, dark havana, to innovative bicolor havana and transparent pearl effect shades.
Using the finest combination of materials; rich acetates and metals receive exclusive treatments creating stylized finishes and textures producing beautiful frames of the highest quality.
Slender plaques discreetly bear the Tom Ford logo. A signature design element and a symbol of the collection is an elegant metal T shape set flush into the temple of many of the styles.
The Designer
Born in Austin, Texas and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Tom Ford is among the most highly respected and successful designers today. The winner of numerous design awards, his rise in fashion began in 1994 when he became Creative Director of Gucci. Not only did he dramatically change the image of the legendary fashion house, he led the company to unprecedented success with his visionary insight into what the modern consumer desires. His innovative and provocative designs set the tone for an entirely new direction in the world of luxury goods. In 2000 Ford also took creative control of Yves Saint Laurent, a Gucci Group brand, reviving it with his trademark combination of sensuality and mystique. In April 2005,one year after leaving Gucci Group, he announced the creation of the TOM FORD Brand. A beauty and eyewear collection launched in 2005 and 2006. In April 2007 his first directly operated retail store will open in New York at 845 Madison Avenue to coincide with the debut of the signature Tom Ford Menswear and accessory collection. Ford currently lives in London, Santa Fe and Los Angeles where he has a film production company called Fade To Black. He is in the process of developing several film projects.
Eye Health Facts
What is colour blindness?
The eye determines the colour of what we are looking at by how much response comes from each of three types of light receptors (red, green, or blue). The most common type of colour vision deficiency is where one type of light receptor, usually red or green, doesn't work as well.
This reduces the range and appearance of colours, with some colours that are clearly different to normal eyes appearing the same to a colour deficient people. What do they see? one demo, another.
True colour blindness - black and white only - is very rare. Colour vision deficiencies are usually inherited, and are more common in boys than girls.