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Story about Alain Mikli

Story about Alain Mikli

In April 1988 The Optician quoted Mikli as saying that his designs could take anything between five minutes and five months to complete, and that despite being a fully qualified optometrist he was now a full-time designer and had ceased to carry out sight tests. Some designs were retro-inspired, aswas the case in 1989 when Mikli introduced a thick-rimmed round frame (reviewed in the New York Times as ‘a modified John Lennon look is the newest old thing’). The extraordinary…

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