Bionism means taking one’s inspiration from what is organic to design technologies better suited to the human being. That is exactly what biosun sunglasses do.
Alain Mikli and Philippe Starck present the new generation of biosun sunglasses: 9 styles for men attached to comfort and discretion. The 9 new styles are distributed in 3 different families, in accordance with the material used: acetate, metal and injected grilamid. The complementary nature of these materials enables to satisfy the needs of a great number of consumers who give more importance to rich colors, soft materials or lightness.
So, are you looking for a pair of spectacles that adjust to your face and fit you comfortably and with style? Then you need to take a look at these biosun shades. Every new biosun style features lenses made in France only.
We had a chance to get an interview from Philippe Starck. Read more below on what he had to say.
How was your collaboration with Alain Mikli born ?
I felt at once that Alain Mikli was the ideal partner because with such a big nose, he was the only one able to wear 3 pairs of glasses simultaneously. More seriously, I knew very rapidly that he had the gift to work on the object and its essence. For each Starck Eyes collection, we work together at the square root of things to reach the elegance of disappearance. We remove everything to aim for the minimum and we do not fall in the trap of drawing. The starting point is this biomechanical hinge I developed with people in my village’s town square watching people exiting the church after mass.
What is the particular place of eyewear as a singular object in your designer’s universe?
In itself, the product is not important. It makes sense only as a pretext to talk about something else. With eyewear, I can talk about the very essence of our existence. A piece of eyewear is neither a fashion item nor an accessory. It fills a mandatory function by repairing a disability. In a world that asphyxiates us with products, the only purpose of which is to be sold, eyewear belongs to the sphere of what is fundamental i.e. it is designed and manufactured to the benefit of human beings.
What are your sources of inspiration when you design eyewear?
My ambition has always been very clear and courageous: make people belonging to my cultural tribe more beautiful and sexier with the minimum style and without a logo so that they can blossom with their own arguments and not those of a marketing brand. To achieve that, I took my inspiration in the human body and more precisely the clavicle. This way, the revolutionary hinge –it is micro-biomechanical- that we developed works similarly to a human clavicle and by essence is in natural harmony with the movement of the body and therefore fits better everyone’s morphology to become an extension of the individual. Actually, it denotes a theme I have always been pursuing: dematerialization and bionism. Eventually, Starck Eyes is not about design but about a philosophy.
Isn’t it the nature of design to transform the symbolic and cultural dimensions of glasses as an object?
Indeed, design is always a pretext, a way to serve and thus deserve the right to exist. Starck Eyes is not about fashion. With Starck eyes, we are anticipating the disappearance of the fashion system. We are in the future reality: out of all the objects I have designed so far Starck Eyes is the best designed, the object that fits best what I call tomorrow’s non-product. An ethical object that reflects the elegance of intelligence in which the brand serves only as a support of what you can see.
How do you contemplate the Starck Eyes collection in 10 years?
With its ambition and philosophy, Starck Eyes has been revolutionary since its creation. With biomechanics and timeless design, the Starck eyes eyewear is one of the most accomplished objects in the field of the absolute elegance of smart discretion for those who love quality. The collection becomes more refined just like haute couture or wine.
Pinstripe Magazine Staff
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