Debuting at Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2023, the newest RIGARDS x Uma Wang collaboration serves up a glorious salute to the central theme of primordial nature and indigenous aesthetics.
With a bold round silhouette, UW12 was designed as the meeting point of heterogeneous worlds, where elements of geometric abstraction and tribal jewelry intermingle with natural materiality.
Crafted of titanium, the frame’s rims are decorated with an incised concentric ring motif (of 568 fine ridges encircling each rim), creating a pattern subtly reminiscent of coil-shelled ammonites that once ruled the Jurassic seas, as well as of the enigmatic double spiral staircases at the Vatican Museums.
The radial composition equally pays homage to the last of the ring-bearers — members of native tribes in Asia and Africa whose astonishing ornamental rings form part of their traditional attire and legacy.
Enhanced with a clever hollowed-out construction minimizing weight, the frame functions splendidly both with sun and ophthalmic lenses.
RIGARDS x Uma Wang UW12 is available in 5 flattering colors, 2 of which are accented with the gentlest touch of RIGARDS’s trademark ‘Time Machine’ patina. Every pair comes with an exclusive small leather case with an adjustable strap, which can also be worn as a crossbody.
Category:PersonalYear:2023Designer:Ti Ning Kwa & Ti Siang Kwa, Rigards, Odd Skin Out Limited, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong SARManufacturer:Odd Skin Out Limited, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, SAR