Bayria presents Callas and Onassis collection for forthcoming season
With this new collection, Italian independent brand Bayria pays homage to the search for perfection and timeless elegance of the Greek soprano, Maria Callas and business magnate, Aristotle Onassis who fell in love in 1957.
Their extraordinary story, and the couple's sense of timeless style, has inspired the 1960s infused collection concept which is composed of seven new, exclusive models. The frames are characterised by three-dimensional acetate structures made unique by special details and textured finishing. The acetate is shaped so that the frames appear to flow, “as if bent by the wind or smoothed by the water”, the designers explain. Acetate sheets in a variety of colours are superimposed onto one another and then engraved to allow the underlying colour to show through, without interrupting the continuity of the shape. Among the models are pantos shapes enriched with hand-sculpted fronts, or with two-tone temples to be worn like jewellery, hexagonal shapes in which the overlapping of multiple sheets creates surprising colour combinations and large frames in which the square and bold front seems to flow inwards. In the Callas and Onassis, collection, the colour palette ranges from neutral beige, ochre, grey and tortoiseshell, to black and “pastel” havana, combined with yellow, plum or smoked lenses.
