Trench your 2014 style with Burberry

Thomas Burberry, with his humble countryside origins, once sought a fabric capable of replacing raincoats made of rubber which he felt did not breathe enough. It was an encounter with a clothier’s apprentice and a shepherd from his region that yielded the gabardine, the precursor to the trenchcoat, in 1880.

Hot on the heels of this discovery, he set up shop in London in 1891; 30 years later, he would become official outfitter at the Court of King Edward VIII. Associated with royalty, Burberry brought its Scottish print to the forefront, as evidenced by the King’s famous exclamation: “Bring me my Burberry!” Today, the print has little by little invaded textiles in cities everywhere and forged a character of its own.

Inspired by the spring/summer 2014 collection, Burberry put it on their glasses and sunglasses, transferring their characteristic 'savoir-faire' into the most minute details. Of course the latest fashion trends have influenced the British maison, therefore we find metal cross-bar bridges for a geometric shape: Burberry BE 4167Q, Burberry BE 4168Q and Burberry BE 2160Q or the cat-eye Burberry BE 2161Q and Burberry BE 4169Q.

The same qualities given to the trenchcoat can be seen here: the arms of the glasses are enveloped in leather, echoing the original coat’s buckle, while the bridge of the glasses is set on polished metal platelets, bringing to mind the metal fasteners that close at the coat’s collar.

Thought up in the UK and made in Italy, this collection adopts all the different incarnations of the Burberry palette, uniting a honey-gold color with tortoise shell or black for the classic model. The elegance of restraint remains intact.

Find your own elegance in the 2014 Burberry eyewear collection, exclusively on Otticanet!