product code : k5549 : £ 55

• Never worn 1980's layered dark rose and pearl
  on crystal plastic frame marked CHRISTIAN
  LATOUR PARIS and MADE IN FRANCE


• Original gradient rose coloured lenses

condition

• lenses : good - 6


• frame : very good


• fit : very good

size

• face : 130mm


• lens width : 65mm


• lens height : 46mm


• arms : 125mm

lens spec

• uv transmission % : 1


• light transmission (LTF) % : 12


• uv protection y/n : y

other info

• The name of designer Christian Latour has perhaps not
  
  maintained as high a profile as that of Guy Laroche, but
  
  in the 1980's, both chose the same maker - in France -
  
  for their sunglasses. We were lucky to find this pair by
  
  Latour, unworn, and just loved the wrap shape and raspberry
  
  ripple colours. The lenses are an inky purple and being in
  
  a gradient tint and divided into two at the bridge, the look
  
  of this wrap style is less engulfing. The overall lightness is
  
  enhanced further by the pearlescent colours of the frame,
  
  which also accentuate that seductive dipped brow. The
  
  stepped shaping is quite 'Deco' and the arrow-end gold tabs
  
  with tiny, dinky screws and the CL logo, bring us right back
  
  to the Eighties. The lenses have been stored incorrectly so
  
  they are not perfect but this doesn't detract too much from
  
  what is a pair of sunglasses from the last days of French
  
  fashion designers using French makers: the world's greatest.
  
  In the 1990's came mass-production and the move to
  
  factories in the Far East. It's really never been the same since.
  
                                                         — klasik