l.a.Eyeworks Acetates
The use of different types of acetates allows l.a.Eyeworks to achieve a vast range of styles, colors, and designs. By integrating each different acetate's inherent best qualities into each different frame design, l.a.Eyeworks’ co-founders and co-designers Barbara McReynolds and Gai Gherardi are able to create the most diverse and stylistically celebrated collections possible. The three main types of acetates in the l.a.Eyeworks Collection are Acetate (Standard Acetate), HD Acetate (High-Density Acetate), and KM Acetate (KRYMIX 93 Acetate).
The most notable differences in l.a.Eyeworks acetate frame designs include; Acetate being a cost-effective material has less color variations and tends to lose some of its natural rigidity and therefore overall strength through the years requiring the need for more maintenance by your optometrist, though Acetate still remains the best choice for braver designs as the integrity of the material is great for shaping and creating thin contour lines. HD Acetate on the other hand, is more expensive offering lush color variations as well as a longer life-span and little or no need for maintenance, with the caveat being its highly-composed materiality can cause it to become brittle in the shaping process and therefore limits the overall thinness of dimensionality in the final production frames as well as limits the overall frame's design variability. KM Acetate is more expensive than both Acetate and HD Acetate, though this material makes the most of Acetate's shaping malleabilities as well as HD Acetate's colors and longer life span.
So in an eyewear design nutshell, each different type of acetate has its natural strengths and weaknesses and therefore a good designer must know when to use each of these acetates with the proper handling in mind. This designer intuition is where Barbara McReynolds and Gai Gherardi excel at discovering new and exciting combinations, not only with acetates, also with the integration of other materials such as Titanium, used in tandem as inserts and/or combinations to enhance the overall beauty and elegance of each l.a.Eyeworks frame.
When choosing your l.a.Eyeworks frame, be assured the design and material are purposefully and meticulously chosen to create the best frame possible and to also create the best eyewear experience for you in mind.
If you have any questions regarding the types of acetate and your personal needs for eyewear lifestyles, please call directly to the l.a.Eyeworks customer service at 1-800-348-3337, or call an l.a.Eyeworks store at 323-653-8255 for l.a.Eyeworks on Melrose Ave or 323-931-7795 for l.a.Eyeworks on Beverly Blvd, both stores are located in Los Angeles, California.