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Alain Mikli
Alain Mikli is a European designer of fine eyewear, eyeglasses, and sunglasses based in Paris, France. Mikli has produced several lines of eyewear most notable for unique colors, shapes, and materials in his designs.
Alain Mikli styles are favorites with avant-garde European and cutting-edge American celebrities. Born in 1955, Mikli attribute his sense of color is reflective of his Armenian-Lebanese heritage.
Alain Mikli, Founder of a Design Revolution
Alain Mikli has a long history of working on his craft. Growing up in Montparnasse, a neighborhood in Paris, France, he began studying ophthalmology at age 17. When he wasn't in school, he was busy shaping, molding, and working with plastic frames.While his friends hated the ugly eyeglasses they were forced to wear, Alain envisioned a time when glasses were elevated from cumbersome prosthetics to beautiful devices that served a dual purpose of vision correction and fashion statement.
In 1978, Alain Mikli received his degree in optometry and founded the company he still leads today: Mikli Diffusion. He continued to push himself to refine and master the design aesthetics, material science, and manufacturing techniques that went into making eyeglasses and sunglasses.
Celebrities Gravitate to Alain Mikli
A natural businessman and promoter, Alain Mikli connected with celebrities who were looking to make public statements with their eyewear. In 1983, none other than Elton John himself brought recognition to the Mikli eyewear line by wearing and touting the products.John made the glasses and sunglasses part of his signature look, even wearing them on TV appearances and for photo shoots. Browse through the racks of a vintage record store and you cannot help but notice the futuristic styled eyewear on several Elton John album covers.
The Alain Mikli brand is only growing in popularity with trend setters in both the United States and Europe. In more recent times, Kanye West wore Alain Mikli sunglasses in his music video, Stronger. West purposely asked for the specially designed glasses from the designer. Thanks to West, the "shutter shades" have come to worldwide prominence and are instantly recognizable.
Other stars like Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Goldblum, Kim Cattrall, and Samuel Jackson count Alain Mikli as one of their favorite eyewear designers. They are regularly seen sporting his cutting-edge glasses on the red carpet during gala award ceremonies or at the latest film premiers.
Avant Garde Design and Technology
Alain Mikli produces eyewear that is distinctive and inimitable in shape, color, materials, and even technology. The frames and temple arms are styled in arresting, colorful acetate with proprietary textured patterns molded right into the material itself to bi-colored metals to combinations of all the materials in a single pair of eyeglasses.Whether you want a remarkable ultramodern design or a retro look form yesteryear updated for today, you will definitely find what you are looking for in Alain Mikli eyewear.
Alain Mikli also delves into high technology and strives to incorporate tough, reliable materials and movement into their eyewear. The studio holds multiple patents for designs of robust, articulated hinges including the Chaam and Amflex hinges.
These mechanisms are built so that the user will never experience loosening of the frame at the temple unexpectedly. They also allow for uniform pressure at the temples and ease of adjustment by the optometrist for perfect fit and comfort.
Alain Mikli International design studio employs more than 200 people, has sales of over $50M USD, and has produced a half million pairs of Mikli glasses sold worldwide.
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