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DRIFT EYEWEAR TIMBER COLLECTION

Eyewear brands incorporating wood into their frames is not exactly new anymore, but certainly one of the strongest trends that’s been seen in eyewear these last months. Drift Eyewear was born from the attempt to combine quality and technology in the use of materials with ecological awareness.

The new Drift Timber Collection consistsof three frames, which are all crafted from salvaged hardwood sourced from different locales. “The dark brown wood for Truss comes from designer Daniel Grady Faires, who painstakingly removed the timber from a renovated building in NYC’s Meatpacking District. Trendy! 

Each frame comes limited to 100 pieces and are available from Drift dealers.

Dirty Faces by JKB Fletcher

Southwest of Sri Lanka in the Laccadive Sea lies a paradise like no other, the island country of the Maldives. The Republic of the Maldives consists of twenty-six atolls in an area spanning 90,000 square kilometers (34,749 square miles). The Maldives are popular for their picture-perfect lush islands ringed by gorgeous white sand beaches. The tiny country is the smallest in Asia both in land mass and population (309,000 people). It also has the lowest high point of any country in the world at 2.3 meters (7 feet 7 inches) and because of this the rising sea level threatens its very existence. All total, the Maldives consists of roughly 1,190 coral islands, only 185 of which are inhabited. The islands were discovered as a tourist destination in the 1970s and today tourism accounts for just under 30% of the country’s GDP. A range of accommodation for any budget can be found on the Maldives, and the country’s capital city of Male is home to an international airport.