Leave it to the dynamic duo Dee & Ricky to be sending their friend Sham Shirley through to visit the shop. Check out these great photos from her blog LateBoots.

Confucius say “The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied”. Well Silver Lining is predicting and perfecting the mirror lens for sunglasses in 2010. After being approached towards the end of last year by Proenza Schouler & House of Gaga to source unique colored mirrored lenses, we were able to find a very special lab that offers a rainbow of mirrored finishes that can be made even on prescription lenses. Here’s a brief visual history of the mirrored lens, and remember you heard it here first.

Apollo 11 moon landing (1967)

The man with no eyes from “Cool Hand Luke” (1967)

CHiP’s from “Magnum Force” (1973)

Sylvester Stallone “Cobra” (1986)

Michael Jackson “The Dangerous World Tour” 1992-93

Proenza Schouler Spring 2010

The future?

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February 2010

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Fall/Winter 2009/2010

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Septempber 2009

Time Out New York – Best Indie Shops 2009

New York Magazine – Best of NY 2009

For Vintage Buffs -
Never-worn shades from the sixties through the nineties from Dior, Emmanuelle Khanh, Persol, and Ray-Ban.

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Summer 2009

Fantastic Man
Winter 2008

Gotham
October 2008

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October 2008

Band of Outsiders
Spring/Summer 2009

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August 24, 2008

Ginza
August 2008

Sur La Terre
Summer 2008

Muse
Summer 2008

Gotham
May 2008

Boon
March 2008

Stiletto
February 2008

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Jordan Silver and Erik Sacher have a vision. The duo behind SoHo’s Silver Lining eyewear shop are selling small-batch frames, blogging, dressing celebrities like Jay-Z and curating vintage styles, all in the hopes of turning spectacles into fetish objects. So far, they’resteaming up glasses all over town. For New York fashion week, Silver and Sacher collaborated with some of the week’s most insider-cool labels — Band of Outsiders, Antonio Azzuolo and Lorick — to style the models in vintage glasses.

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The good people at Silver Lining Opticians notified us that the specs Jay-Z wore while rapping with Chris Martin and his “supergroup” Swagger Like Us at the Grammys were 1980s Paloma Picasso Optyl sunglasses and rocked 1968 folding Persol 714, both straight from the SoHo store. Talk about premium placement! Well done, guys.

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Jenni Kayne had oversize plastic frames, Antonio Azzuolo used 60’s and 70’s Italian deadstock, and Scott Sternberg borrowed metal ones from Silver Lining Opticians. They’ve kind of 70’s detective and early 80’s working girl (like the chick in the best Cinderella screenplay ever The Secret of My Succe$s, but I digress). Who knew four eyes could be so sexy?

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Today, eyewear boutique Silver Lining Opticians at 100 Thompson Street unveiled their own political window display, with the theme “Vote Glasses 2008.” In addition to the red, white and blue signage and frames in the window, the store’s giving out helium balloons emblazoned with their message.

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Thanks to Michael Kors’s fall runway show and brainy, bespectacled A-listers like America Ferrera, Tina Fey and Kirsten Dunst, the four-eyed look has never been so fashionable. To find out how pull off the season’s geek-chic style, we tested out a few frames at New York City’s hip downtown optical shop, Silver Lining.

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With the resurgent popularity of eighties-style eyewear, it was only a matter of time before Vuarnet returned, too: Manhattan’s Silver Lining Opticians just introduced two styles from the French sunglass manufacturer.

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And my favorite frames shop, Silver Lining Opticians on Thompson Street launched a blog including street style, ask an optician and vintage frames musings. This particular post about a grandma with sticky fingers was so hilarious, just showing how four eyes are blurring the line between fashion, functionality and old people.