Sicily in the shades

We do love our Oliver Peoples matt black classic 1950s-style sunglasses, and we’re very partial to Cutler & Gross gold aviators, but there comes a time when we want a little more colour in our lives. Perhaps when we’re at a friend’s dammuso on Pantelleria, or window shopping before an al fresco pasta lunch in Palermo. For such times, we’re rather taken with the new range of super-charged colourful shades from Mondelliani. They’re a sugary but sexy slice of the deep south.

The Mondello family has been making spectacles for over 40 years, and their frames are infused with Italian identity. The new collection, Eolie, is inspired by six islands off the north coast Sicily: Lipari, Vulcano, Salina, Alicudi, Filicudi and Panarea. The frame shapes of the Eolie range draw from designs of the 1960s and 1970s, and feature some of the most attractive colour combinations we’ve seen in several seasons. We love them all, but if we had to choose, we’d opt for the rounded, owl-style Vulcano frames in the “Sarf” colourway of blood-orange and fuchsia. They just cry out for a headscarf, capri pants, a moped and a pistachio gelato. C

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