l.a.Eyeworks

l.a.Eyeworks is an eyewear brand that began on September 9, 1979, when Barbara McReynolds and Gai Gherardi opened a single storefront on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The brand designs eyeglasses recognized for bold shapes, imaginative handling of materials, and expressive use of color. It remains a privately owned house encompassing two namesake retail stores in Los Angeles and a wholesale company that channels its designs to a global network of independent opticians and retailers.

l.a.Eyeworks began on September 9, 1979 when Barbara McReynolds and Gai Gherardi opened a single storefront on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The original whim for this adventure was to challenge the prevailing norms of eyewear with proposals for a new, provocative revelation of the face. McReynolds and Gherardi both grew up in the seaside community of Huntington Beach, becoming inseparable friends in high school. They later trained as opticians, working in several legendary optical shops and learning from the area's most notable craftspeople. Believing it was time to open up a new kind of conversation about glasses, they launched l.a.Eyeworks with a mission to encourage people to stop looking and to start seeing. More than four decades and hundreds of frame designs later, l.a.Eyeworks remains a privately owned house of optical imagination, encompassing two namesake retail stores in Los Angeles and a wholesale company that channels its influential designs to a global network of independent opticians and retailers.

Original, often iconoclastic, and always invigorating eyeglasses recognized for bold shapes, imaginative handling of materials, and expressive use of color.

Product categories. sunglasses · prescription eyewear

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