Silver Lining Opticians

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June 2010

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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.

Refinery 29

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.

Style.com

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?

Racked

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.

Glamour.com

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.

men.style.com

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.

NY Post

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.