The brand, founded by sisters Clare and Christina Kimeze, is revolutionising the eyewear industry by creating frames to fit Black and brown nose bridges after noticing a gap in the market.
You may also like“I had the realisation at home when I was wearing a pair of glasses while watching TV,” recalls Clare. “I was watching Bernard [Lowe] onand his glasses are terrible, he’s always fiddling with them. And then I realised that I was doing the same thing.”
“And she said, ‘Well, I’ve never really found glasses that fit well. But I always thought that was just me.’” “We were met with a reasonable amount of prejudice and some attitudes that were obviously racist. It made us understand why it hadn’t been done before” “We’ve always been close growing up and we probably never thought we’d end up working together,” says Christina. “Clare’s got more of a business brain and I’ve gotten more creative so it’s been working out really well.”was one that took them on a path of discovery that opened the eyes of many, as they attended glasses fairs and spoke with manufacturers throughout Europe about the disparity – something they said was challenging.
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