649 Original Sunglasses in Havana/Brown Size:55mm

649 Original Sunglasses in Havana/Brown Size:55mmThere's hardly anything we can say about Persol that's not in their name for sun in Italian but it's one of the oldest and most iconic eyewear companies on the planet. You've seen their sunglasses on Steve McQueen, Marcello Mastroianni, Greta Garbo, and Reinhold Messner. (And actually, this very shape, the 649, was worn by Mastroianni in Divorce Italian Style, though it was originally designed for local tram drivers.) Every pair is still made by hand

with even lines of sky blue and bright white

scaled-down point collar

Designed in California and made in Japan

Feu de Bois (literally

but he moonlights as a watch collector — so both the stories and the photographs in this book are beautiful

We're into anything that combines incense and verbena

with a heart of lily of the valley and earthy labdanum and benzoin resins in the base

almost velvety finish

very subtle heathered effect to a solid color

they have a lower rise than 501®s

The construction details are the same

and designed to sit in perfect harmony with both the lapel of our jackets and the length of our shirt collars