Tag Archives: Sunwear

Filed under: Anne et Valentin, CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK!, Julbo

Like father like son

Written by on April 5th 2010

I think it’s true when people say that great style runs in the family. I mean, check out Jason and Izzy!


When Jason was in the store picking up his new Anne et Valentin frame (what a cool shape!), his son, Izzy, put on some Julbo sunglasses and POW! Insta-cool. He’s like a mini-James Dean!

How could we resist? With style like this, we just had to make Jason and Izzy our CUSTOMERS OF THE WEEK!

Congrats, guys! You’re our Customers of the Week and our new style icons!


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!

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Filed under: Francis Klein, IC Berlin, NEWS!

Good day, sunshine!

Written by on March 30th 2010

Hooray! Spring is here and so are new sunglasses!

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!

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Filed under: CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK!, Francis Klein

CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK!

Written by on March 27th 2010

One of my favorite names in the whole world is Doris. Honest. I mean, I can’t think of a single Doris who wasn’t/isn’t totally awesome. Think about it: Doris Day, Doris Lessing, and Doris, our CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK!

Doris is a longtime customer and friend of Eye Spy. Now that the weather is warm, we get to see more of Doris and her adorable dog, Chucky! Doris chose these awesome Francis Klein sunglasses just in time for sunny weather!

Welcoming Spring in style!

Great choice, Doris! Your new Francis Klein sunglasses look fantastic!

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!

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Filed under: NEWS!, Rapp, Thierry Lasry

I wear my Stunna Glasses at night

Written by on March 24th 2010

Welcome home, ya stunna!


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).

New! Thierry Lasry! Coming soon!

She also sidled on over and successfully picked up Thierry Lasry sunglasses and Rapp eyewear!

It went like this:

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!


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Filed under: EVENTS!, IC Berlin, Kaenon

Awesome. Awesomer. Awesomest.

Written by on March 16th 2010

You know what’s awesome?

Make overs.

You know what’s awesomer?

Sunglasses.

This weekend, Eye Spy is having a Party! We love parties. We love make overs. We love helping our customers discover a whole new look and attitude just by adding a little something something to their eyewear collection.

We also love that the sun is starting to shine so we’ve invited two of our favorite sunglass lines to the party! Representatives from Kaenon and Ray Ban will be at Eye Spy from ,12-5 on Saturday, March 20, showing off the new new frames! We’ll also have the ic! berlin Tres Chic collection! I know, you’ve already got the dated marked on your calendar with a big big heart.

Hey, Kaenon, what’s up?

Lookin’ good, Ray-Ban. Lookin’ Real good.

ic! berlin, ooh la la.

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!

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Filed under: Francis Klein, NEWS!

The Francis Kleins have landed!!!

Written by on November 21st 2009

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!!!

Let Ralph tell you all about it.

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Filed under: CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK!

CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK!

Written by on September 27th 2009

This week, we have TWO Customers of the week! A while back, Gray called us looking for a pair of round tortoise Francis Klein frames, we did some checking, looked up some info, and invited Gray to the store to look at some options. Gray and his wife, Arden, drove up from Indiana to check out the selection, and wouldn’t you know it, they BOTH found awesome frames!

Two. of. hearts. Two hearts that beat as one. Two. of. hearts.

Gray chose a Ray-Ban frame as his new sunglasses and Arden cleverly found a Lafont frame that, though designed as an every day pair, works beautifully as sunglasses!

So, Congratulations to Gray *and* Arden on finding fantastic new frames! We’re glad you made the trip to find the perfect new glasses!

Guess what!?! Eye Spy is turning ELEVEN!!!! We’re having an anniversary party on Saturday, October 17th from 10-6pm. Stop by and join us in celebrating eleven awesome years!

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Filed under: CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK!, Persol, Swissflex

CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK!

Written by on July 21st 2009

Our CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK this week is one of the most stylish guys I know! Noah chose some really really cool blue Swissflex frames and WOW do they look great!

Noah’s dad, Kevin, also got a pretty awesome pair of Persol sunglasses!

What a cool family, Swissflex frames and Persol frames in one house?! That’s what I call totally rad and super-fun.


Congrats to Noah on being our CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK and congrats to Kevin for having such a cool kid!

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Filed under: CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK!, Francis Klein, Lafont

CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK!

Written by on July 4th 2009

This week our CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK is and Independence Day Special with TWO, that’s right, TWO CUSTOMERS OF THE WEEK!

Catherine and Sara came in to look at glasses together and each found an adorable frame to suit their energetic personalities! Catherine found a classic Francis Klein frame with rhinestones and a detail on the temples (sides) of the frame that is simply to. die. for.

**Meanwhile**

Sara was browsing the sunglasses and found a Lafont frame that fit her PERFECTLY! What a lucky day!

Two hot to handle.

Congratulations Sara and Catherine! You look awesome in your Francis Klein and Lafont frames!!!

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Filed under: Anne et Valentin, NEWS!

Who’s the big winner? You are!!!

Written by on July 1st 2009

Congrats to our Eye Spy/Time Out Chicago contest winner, FRED L!

Fred won a free pair of eyeglasses care of Eye Spy Optical! It was a lot of fun choosing a frame for Fred, he was digging the classic look of the Anne et Valentin sunglasses, which are vintage inspired, but have a definite modern quality to their use of angles and color.

Fred settled on a blue Anne et Valentin sunglass frame:


What a lucky guy!

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