Dover Street market is well known for regularly new collaborations with designers and style icons like Raf Simons, Katie Grant or known Alber Elbaz of Lanvin. London’s concept store was founded by Rei Kawakubo of the cult label Comme des Garçons in 2004. People who are interested in fashion, design and art objects meet on six floors. The latest trick is the cooperation with the Berlin-based label MYKITA, which has its own corner in the luxury shop recently, in which it presented among other things his limited edition with the models Dash and Hunter.

Flip-up cool! This goes out to my former classmate Jerry, who used to wear flip-up glasses when we were in high school together. I owe you an apology: We gave you hard time, saying your glasses remind us of a toilet seat, while you insisted on the ingenious practicality of the whole thing. And you were right! Today, you’d be one of the coolest cats in the streets with these things. As we speak, eyewear companies are still catching up to what could be the next big trend. Just take the PH 3075 from the Polo Ralph Lauren Automotive Special Edition: It features a light metal frame with prescription lenses fitted into the interior, covered by sun lenses that flip-up in the style of the sun-visor in a car – adjustable to any kind of weather and stylistic preference. With its wood-effect temples and sleek metal lines, these aviator frames are living proof that you can be practical, and look tremendously cool all at the same time.

HAW TWIST is the first project by Hermann August Weizenegger from Atelier HAW and Fabian Hofmann from COBLENS, which will now be presented at DMY. The change of characteristic curves and the concave/convex contours are typical for the extravagant concept sunglasses TWIST. The fronts are made of bloc-Titan, all surfaces are polished only by hand and then with a colouring and curable coating of niobium, the temple tips are from Japanese cotton acetate. There is a female and a male model. Every eyewear is manufactured by hand.

May we introduce: Phil presents the “93/13 celebration Edition” for the 20th anniversary. The first titanium collection has the perfect eyewear for avant-garde people. The brand combines stylish forms with a saddle bridge, that gives this shapes a good deal of coolness.

Super has released his new collection “Wanderism 13″. Known for their cool, retro designs Super with the hand-made in Italy eyewear has advanced to a very trendy eyewear label. When Daniel Beckermann, co-editor of the Italian independent magazine “PIG”, one day found out that in addition to the long-established and traditional labels a few really trendy brands in the eyewear market were found, he snapped his brother Simon and buddy Sean Beolchini himself and founded Super a.k.a. Retrosuperfuture ® . In the current collection, we find colored highlights, Python patterns and leather. We like!

The glasses on our current cover is by the Cologne label Martin & Martin, called Lorenz, and has a great deal of trend potential in our opinion. If you send an E-mail to presse@eyewear-magazine.com with the keyword “Lorenz” until May 14, 2013, can win one of 10 glasses. Don’t forget to address!

Our new issue is devoted to the new season. We were in New York, visited “Optician-punk” Anthony Aiden Gaggi, who took us through his shop in the hometown of Joey Ramone and Johnny Thunders. In the “tech talk”, Gernot Trebsche talks about the brand Serengeti. Shane Baum tells us in “Men @ Work” where the stripes on the Leisure Society glasses come from and our photo galleries – which are monochrome and cool or sensual and warm type — show how immensely conversion rich are the glasses looks for this season. EYEWEAR issue 08 can be found from May 8, 2013 at the newsagent of your confidence or quite comfortably here.

The sunglasses Diorfrozen One from Dior makes you the Diva and should be your constant noble companion in this summer. What we particularly like? The quality finish and the delightful color combinations.

We love them. The classic vintage sunglasses from the Italian brand retro Super future. It comes with a thick plastic frame, contrasting ironing, an inside printed with flowers and an exaggerated nose bridge. on urbanoutfitters.com

American luxury brand Leisure Society, creating heirloom quality designs, announces the addition of seven new captivating eyewear models to its collection. The fashionable …