Clink! Aviators are here.

TO BUY · 07/15/2014

Clink! Aviators are here.

July 9th is a huge day in history. There was the birth of David Hockney (in 1937), the Battle of Normandy (in 1944), the opening of Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans show (in 1962) and the release of Donkey Kong (in 1981). It was also the day before the release of our collaboration with Into The Gloss, and the date of a dinner party to celebrate. We’re not comparing the dinner to Donkey Kong; we’re just putting it in a context.

We’d spent a year laboring (lovingly) on two pairs of aviators with Into The Gloss founder Emily Weiss and her co-founder Nick Axelrod, so celebrating their release date was like popping the cork on a bottle of seriously fizzy champagne.

We took over the garden room of the Waverly Inn, which is a bit like the Conservatory in Clue: tile-floored, airy, filled with lush plants. (Key difference: nobody has been murdered there.) It’s lovely on a warm summer night.

Glasses were tried on, iPhone photos were taken, drinks were drunk. There were also freshly-baked biscuits, which a European gentleman at the party referred to as “delicious bread patties”. Perfect.

Care to shop the collaboration? Let’s go.

Emily Weiss and Eva Chen in the foreground. In the background, smoldering eye contact.