10/08/2022
A Shape That Defines An Era.
As pilots took to the skies in ever greater numbers and soared to new altitudes the need for a high spec pair of protective sunglasses became a pressing issue. As readers of our Persol blog will know Ratti's earliest designs were built primarily for pilots fighting in the skies during world war one. Given that Ray-Ban only started out in 1937 as the civilian off-shoot of Bausch and Lomb optical it seems highly unlikely they were the first to engineer this iconic silhouette.
