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Ocean Cage.A new stage for the face.
Six Masks, hand-applied enamel and a world born on stage.
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Occhio! Journal
Stories of eyewear and the people who imagine it.
Shapes and colours
Aviator, cat-eye, round, oversize: the history of each shape, how to wear it and the models to try.
Shapes and colours
How rimless glasses work: lenses, screws and care
Two drilled lenses, a bridge, two temples: rimless glasses are eyewear stripped to the bone. How they are made, which lenses they need, who they suit and the eight models available now.
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Shapes and colours
Crystal frames: how to choose one (and why it isn't invisible)
A crystal acetate shows everything: thickness, bevels, the edge of the lens. The three tones, how to match it, optical and sun, and the twelve frames available now, shipped worldwide from Italy.
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Shapes and colours
The oval shape: history, proportions and independent designers
Where the oval shape comes from, why it suits almost everyone, how to choose it and six optical and sun models by independent designers from the OCCHIO selection.
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Shapes and colours
From the first lenses of the 1200s to independent designers: the story of round glasses
From the first Italian spectacles of the 1200s to Harold Lloyd: the history of round glasses, how to choose them and six optical and sun models from the OCCHIO selection.
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Shapes and colours
From the Sixties to independent designers: the story of oversized glasses
From Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s frames to independent designers: history, proportions and six oversized sun and optical models from the OCCHIO selection.
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Shapes and colours
From Harlequin masks to independent designers: the story of the cat-eye
From Altina Schinasi’s Harlequin frame to independent designers: history, design and six cat-eye sun and optical models from the OCCHIO selection.
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The designers we select, seen up close: where they come from, how they work, the pieces that define them.
Stories
Sunglasses and eyeglasses brands: 23 independent designers who make their own frames
Twenty-three independent sunglasses and eyeglasses brands, from Sabae to Paris, Berlin to Stockholm: founders, workshops and materials, and where to start. Shipped worldwide from Italy.
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Stories
T HENRI. Hypercars, in a pair of glasses
Tuatara, Pantera, Diablo: T HENRI turns the world’s most coveted cars into eyewear handmade in Sabae, in runs of 199 pieces or fewer per colour. The story, the construction and the models...
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Stories
TVR – True Vintage Revival. The craftspeople of Sabae
The faces and stories of Sabae’s master craftspeople. Inside the TVR workshop and the special editions Series 2 Vintage 1993, 505 Woody Carved and 504X, as selected by OCCHIO!
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Stories
Leisure Society. Time, engraved.
Sulcova on the face, gold on titanium, the details of Aubrey and Avalon II. Find your Leisure Society online or try the selection at OCCHIO in Crema, Italy.
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Stories
Thirty hours to shape horn: AKONI Crafted Cosmo
Thirty hours of work, and natural markings that change with every frame. Crafted Cosmo is the AKONI to choose when the material matters as much as the shape.
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Stories
AHLEM's double rim: the story of the Paris Collection
The outline catches your eye from a distance. Up close, you discover two interlocking rims, contrasting finishes and watchmaking precision. Find your AHLEM Paris.
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Japan, France, Italy, California: what changes from one workshop tradition to another.
Where they are made
Italian sunglasses and eyewear brands made by hand: the workshops and designers to know
A pencil sketch, a sheet of acetate, hundreds of hand operations. Italian sunglasses and eyewear brands made by hand: Piero Massaro's atelier near Venice, Kuboraum's Masks, Sestini's Florentine lily and three more...
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Where they are made
French eyewear: acetate, character and the brands to know
Full fronts, decisive colours, hand-polished acetate. AHLEM from Oyonnax, the Lesca family since 1964, the Paris atelier of Peter and May: the French glasses to try at OCCHIO in Crema.
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Where they are made
Why Japanese eyewear is different and how to choose it
Pick them up and they seem to weigh nothing. From Sabae, Japan’s eyewear town: KameManNen titanium, EYEVAN style, TVR and Mr. Gentleman acetate, and six frames to try in Crema.
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Sizes, materials, fit and care: what to know before choosing a frame.
Guides
OCCHIO! Index 2026: the shapes, materials and brands independent eyewear buyers choose
What people who bought online from OCCHIO! chose in 2026, at full price: brands, optical or sun, shapes, materials, colours and countries.
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How to choose sunglasses: lens category, colour, shape and material
Lens first, then shape, then material. How to choose sunglasses by reading the filter category, the lens colour, the measurements and the way the frame sits on the face, with independent designer...
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How to clean glasses and sunglasses without damaging them: lenses, acetate, titanium
Lukewarm water, a drop of neutral soap, a microfibre cloth. Everything else, from your shirt tail to alcohol, ruins lenses and frames. How to clean your glasses every day, what to do...
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Johnny Depp glasses: the Tart Arnel, the Julius Tart AR and the TVR®504
Johnny Depp's glasses are the Tart Optical Arnel, the 1950s New York panto. Today you find the shape in the Julius Tart Optical AR and the TVR®504: the versions available, optical and...
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Photochromic lenses: how they work, what they don't do and when to choose them
Clear indoors, dark in the sun. How photochromic lenses work, why they stay clear in the car and when to choose them over a pair of sunglasses.
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Acetate glasses: what cellulose acetate is, how it's made and how to spot it
Before it was a pair of glasses, it was cotton and wood. What cellulose acetate is, how a sheet becomes a frame, and how to tell it from moulded plastic.
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