Cartier Unveils an All-New Fall/Winter 20 Eyewear Collection Inspired By Flight
Cartier?s savoir-faire comes to life in the new Fall/Winter 20 Eyewear collection with a balance of materials and heritage-inspired details that fuse timeless elegance and contemporary design.
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How vintage mountaineering sunglasses looked thanks to the work of Frenchman Jules Baud, the founder of Julbo
Mountaineering sunglasses are about as old as when humans decided that climbing mountains and scaling new heights was a good idea. As soon as these madmen started encountering the blinding rays of unfiltered sunlight in the upper atmosphere, man realised that if we were going to go these places – fly above the clouds or climb massive peaks glacial snow, we were going to have to deal with the brutal reflections of blazing light unbroken clouds.
Some of the oldest companies claim that this new breed of sunglasses made for the adventurous were developed as early as the 1880s. As Doug K. Scott had outlined in his book Big Wall Climbing, we begin summiting mountains in the 1850s, which meant that 30 years of development time and innovation by pioneers like Frenchman Jules Baud, the founder of Julbo, had been looking into the eye protection needs of Alpine mountaineers and Charmonix crystal miners since 1888; but it wasn’t until the 1950s, that Julbo heralded an usual yet stylishly appointed visage of what they considered the “modern sunglasses̶...
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How vintage mountaineering sunglasses looked thanks to the work of Frenchman Jules Baud, the founder of Julbo
Mountaineering sunglasses are about as old as when humans decided that climbing mountains and scaling new heights was a good idea. As soon as these madmen started encountering the blinding rays of unfiltered sunlight in the upper atmosphere, man realised that if we were going to go these places – fly above the clouds or climb massive peaks glacial snow, we were going to have to deal with the brutal reflections of blazing light unbroken clouds.
Some of the oldest companies claim that this new breed of sunglasses made for the adventurous were developed as early as the 1880s. As Doug K. Scott had outlined in his book Big Wall Climbing, we begin summiting mountains in the 1850s, which meant that 30 years of development time and innovation by pioneers like Frenchman Jules Baud, the founder of Julbo, had been looking into the eye protection needs of Alpine mountaineers and Charmonix crystal miners since 1888; but it wasn’t until the 1950s, that Julbo heralded an usual yet stylishly appointed visage of what they considered the “modern sunglasses̶...
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