A new eyewear collection for Mila ZB

The journey in the tradition and beauty according Mila Zegna Baruffa It all started in Milan, when Mila Zegna Baruffa broke the stingray desk clock that she inherited from her Grand Mother; as she went to repair it, the sun was pouring through the great windows overlooking the park, she realized, after checking the time on her phone, that she needed more a sunglasses than a new desk-clock!   She ran to her artisans and started working on what was to become the heart of the collection: a mind-blowing metal stingray base from which many glasses would be cast of. (MZ026V – MZ027V – MZ511S – MZ512S).   As she walked to the garden her hand lingered on a rose wood she discreetly included in various shapes (MZ027V – MZ029V – MZ511S). And at that very time she got the inspiration for a Ready to wear clothing collection; the great range of flowers from her gardens were all painted one by one in order to create unique prints that animates many pieces of her collection.   True to her Italian origins, she is faithful to the powerful octagonal , her sign of good fortune; she thus used it abundantly as a witty hinge of the frames, in order to bring good luck to its wearer.   Luck was when the sun shone starkly on her jewelry box, caressing the round spheres of pearls, the array of colorful diamantes that were drawn to many different frames (MZ024V – MZ025V); some of them recalling the elegance of Jackie O who, in the past, paid a dreamy visit to her mother in their summer villa (MZ510S). Among sun models, you can find also a revisiting of 80's, with very high and charismatic temples, such frames worn by the likes of her aunt, an Italian socialite who knew the whereabouts of Tuscany's hidden country hubs like the palm of her hand, when she was not in Paris or Rome for couture fittings (MZ512S).   As she swipe her tablet to see the news, she discovered a new way of working metal that made it a light as a feather; he did not hesitate a split second and ran to these renown new technology artisans who knew how to perforate metal in a tubular shape creating light at a very lightweight on gold temples, that she then paired with a cat eyed black frame (MZ021V – MZ030V).   From the broken to the new, from the past until now, from the forbidden to the most up to date, in the true tradition of the 'rinascimento', Mila Zegna Baruffa creates spectacles and sunglasses made in Italy for every woman with a desire to get closer to the dream of beauty and love, love in Italy !