Garrett Leight California Optical (GLCO) has partnered with Italian designer Massimo Alba for a capsule collection of eyewear that encapsulates and honours the Italian style with synergetic glasses. Massimo’s mindset about design is one that GLCO can easily connect with - he makes quality clothes that are comfortable, beautiful and with every detail considered. The designer exemplifies casual Italian elegance for those who seek pleasure in the authentic. Massimo Alba’s understated grace and indispensable creations hold their sense of specialness in the attitude of those who wear his pieces.

This one-of-a-kind collaboration perfectly encapsulates and reflects the two companies’s values, as they seamlessly intertwine by creating deeply from the senses.

GLCO x Massimo Alba was created for our friends and family, but we are making it available to the rest of the world. It’s a thoughtful collection, an expression of the two companies’s mutual forward-thinking values.

Inspired by a classic 70s style frame owned by the designer himself, GLCO x Massimo Alba offers a double bridge acetate in 3 colorways that refer to the brand’s background and love for the Italian region. The three color waves have been named Brera, Sole (Sun), and Luce (Light). These Italian terms, chosen by Alba himself, make reference to the bright Californian scenery without ever forgetting Brera, the neighbourhood of his very first Italian Flagship Store in Milan.

Massimo Alba further personalises each piece by placing a small golden engraved clover on the temple of each piece parallel to GLCO’s own trademark. This signature detail is also present in the packaging, adding to its already elegant and slick design. The frames are available in both sun and optical, these last ones solely at GLCO. The luxury staple is paired with a noteworthy cleaning cloth that is a replica of one of Massimo Alba’s most iconic handkerchiefs and reads, “To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy”. In the words of the designer himself, the
handkerchief “is a sentimental, forgotten accessory used to dry your brow, tears, hands, and, for those who wear glasses like me, to clean the lenses.”