We’ve started to receive some of the frames that the Queen of Specs ordered while she was at the big trade show last week!
Hey guys, let’s have a beach party. I’ll bring the Ruffles, you bring the diet coke and lime.
Did someone say party?
Gasp! It’s the ic! berlin gang! They’re so cool! Do you think they’ll invite us to the beach bonfire? Swoon!
Ahhh Spring!
And a reminder–for the whole month of April, Eye Spy is celebrating a GREEN SCENE. If you ride your bike or the CTA to Eye Spy, you get 10% off a pair of Rx specs. If you donate an old pair of glasses, you receive $25 off a new pair of Rx frames! So come on by and celebrate a greener earth with Eye Spy!
The Queen of Specs has returned from the eyewear trade show in New York! She had quite a successful journey, purchasing *NEW* shapes from our existing lines (Anne et Valentin, Francis Klein, Lafont, ic! berlin, and Theo).
Queen of Specs: Hey Thierry Lasry: Hey Queen of Specs: Wanna come over to my place? Thierry Lasry: Heck yeah!
It’s impossible to resist the charms of such a looker
Queen of Specs: Hey Rapp: Hey Queen of Specs: Did it hurt? Rapp: Did what hurt? Queen of Specs: When you fell from Heaven?
She’s so smooth!
Eye Spy + Purple Cat-Eye = LOVE!
And a reminder–for the whole month of April, Eye Spy is celebrating a GREEN SCENE. If you ride your bike or the CTA to Eye Spy, you get 10% off a pair of Rx specs. If you donate an old pair of glasses, you receive $25 off a new pair of Rx frames! So come on by and celebrate a greener earth with Eye Spy!
Lafont has been decorating the faces of myopes, hyperopes, and presbyopes for over 80 years! Lafont eyewear has a beautiful and timeless style and to celebrate that fact, they’ve brought back several of their classic designs as part of the Lafont reedition line.
I just couldn’t contain my joy at the constant arrival of more and more Lafont reedition frames at Eye Spy. I was so enamored, I had to write a poem, I hope Elizabeth Barret Browning doesn’t mind:
Oh, Lafont Reedition, how do I love thee, let me count the ways
I love thee to the keyhole bridge and generous lens height
My soul can see, I never feel without sight
For the eyes you provide such grace
I love thee ‘cuz you balance out my big, round face
I need you morning, noon, and night
I love thee freely, I know you’re all right
I love thee purely, your sunglasses protect from uv rays
I love thee for your style and practical use
You give me no grief, you’re the bee’s knees
Oh boy, Lafont reedition frame I hope I don’t lose
My nifty cat-eye glasses, we go together like wine and cheese
You handmade objects of well-crafted design, it’s you I choose.
Lafont reedition frames, I’ll take one in each color, please
Eye Spy is having a makeover party and sunglass show! Stop by the store on Saturday, March 20 and get a new look just in time for Spring! Get a free makeover! Delight in the Tres Chic collection from ic!berlin Check out the newest sunglasses from Kaenon and Ray-Ban!\
Here at Eye Spy HQ, IT Geniuses Mary and Mary spent the last several minutes trying to determine how, oh how, to link up this here blog with our twitter and our facebook pages.
Well, here’s to crossing fingers that it worked!
We love connecting with all of you via these various sites!
It’s pretty nifty to read the story behind the company. Ralph is the guy to thank when you accidentally sit on, run over, step on, or sleep in your ic! berlins—and they don’t break!
Now I do, yes, thank you very much!
Too many flex dollars, not enough time? At Eye Spy, we accept flex dollars and will make sure that you find quality handmade glasses as well as the best possible lenses for your prescription. Just ask and we’ll be happy to help you find an *awesome* new pair of specs!
OK, we don’t love the low temperatures or the slushy, wet snow, or the delayed buses and head colds.
We DO love hot chocolate that somehow tastes sooo much better when it’s cold outside! And we really love cozy sweaters and scarves.
And wow-oh-wow, do we love to decorate the store and make it a Winter Wonderland inside and out!
Inside, we have a new eyewear line, Claire Goldsmith, direct from jolly old England. We also have a TON of new Eyebobs readers and bucketloads of new Theo frames, Anne et Valentin frames, Francis Klein frames, and Lafont frames.
Outside, we’ve put up sparkling lights in the window so that, even when it snows, you’ll be able to find Eye Spy’s shining lights on Lincoln Ave.
Doesn’t it just look so warm and cozy in there?
We put up our favorite window decorations, included a section for Christmas with little elves an ornaments and a Chanukah section with a menorah handmade by our own Queen of Specs!
We’ve made the store a cozy and warm place to hang out and get out of the cold while you’re looking for new glasses to go with your winter wardrobe.
Stop by and say hello!
Too many flex dollars, not enough time? At Eye Spy, we accept flex dollars and will make sure that you find quality handmade glasses as well as the best possible lenses for your prescription. Just ask and we’ll be happy to help you find an *awesome* new pair of specs!
Here at Eye Spy, we have a lot to be thankful for: awesome eyeglasses that surround us all day long, a funky and colorful work environment, and Dinkel’s right across the street!
But, today, what we are most thankful for are the awesome awesome customers–you are all so much fun to have around!
You make our hearts go ZING!
What we are second most thankful for are the new frames that have been arriving all week!
First, the Theo invasion:
Theo’s classic metal style that we all know and looooove.
And new Theo plastics! Absence does make the heart grow fonder! It’s been a while since Theo has made plastic frames and, yow, are we happy they’re back!
Then, we received the Lafont frames for our Trunk Show this weekend! The frames will only be here for the weekend, so if you want to see hundreds ofLafonts in dozens of colors, put on you hat and gloves and come over to Eye Spy! (Pssst…The Lafont trunk show will be on Saturday, November 28, from 11-5pm.)
ooooooh. ahhhhhh.
Look at all the kids frames we’ll have in the store this weekend! (This is maybe one fifth of the kids frames we’ll have for the trunk show!!!)
The Francis Kleins have landed just in time for our FRANCIS KLEIN/IC! BERLIN trunk show, TODAY, Saturday, November 21 from 11-5 PM!
We received 100 new Francis Klein frames! Here are a few of the new styles…
They come in peace and style.
Sunglasses? Check!
Rhinestones? Check!
Gorgeous? CHECK!
We are sooo excited to have these new frames in our store just in time for the show, but we’re maybe possibly, ok totally and completely super-excited to have over 70 of these frames direct from France just for the weekend, just for the show, just for Eye Spy!
Stop by this weekend and see how the store will be swallowed by Francis Klein rhinestones and ic! berlin stainless steel wonder!!!
Last week, we welcomed a new gal to the shop, CLAIRE GOLDSMITH, a new eyewear line out of England! We ordered 18 new frames from the inaugural Claire Goldsmith collection and, Blimey! They sure are sassy!
Fresh!
Radical!
Party animals.
Wow, these new Claire Goldsmith frames have really brought the coolto Eye Spy!
Brilliant!
The November Trunk Shows are here! Every Saturday in November we are hosting a trunk show…including IC! Berlin (November 21), Francis Klein (November 21), and Lafont (November 28). We will have the full collections including new styles you’ve never seen before…for one day only!!! For once, you’ll be looking forward to November in Chicago!
You may think that being an optician is a ho-hum kind of same-old same-old type of job. Well, let me tell you! At Eye Spy, we never know what the day will bring. Whether it’s getting to see a whole stack of new frames, months before they’re available in stores, or climbing right inside the display case to change a light bulb, every day brings something new…..wait. Did I just say, climb inside a display case?
Sure did.
Big hi-5 to Serina who took control of a body bending situation. While the elders among us were left rubbing our backs at our own attempt to lean in and change a bulb, young sprite Serina made like a contortionist and got to work.
See? Being an optician is super-exciting stuff!
So many frames to choose from! Mark your calendar! The November Trunk Shows are just around the corner! Every Saturday in November we’ll be hosting a trunk show from several of our lines including Theo (November 7), Anne et Valentin (November 14), IC! Berlin (November 21), Francis Klein (November 21), Lafont (November 28). They’re going to bring the full collections including new styles you’ve never seen before!!! For once, you’ll be looking forward to November in Chicago!
