Designhub Playboy Butterfly Shades — Purple Tinted Gold Frame

The Designhub Playboy Butterfly Shades are named for the butterfly frame silhouette — an exaggerated upswept outer corner that extends dramatically beyond the face outline, giving the frame the winged appearance of a butterfly in flight — and represent the most theatrical frame geometry in the Designhub collection, worn by hip hop artists who treat eyewear as a wearable art statement rather than a functional accessory. The frame is an acetate-over-metal construction: a zinc alloy internal chassis plated in gold provides the structural rigidity, over which hand-finished gold-tinted acetate panels are bonded to create the outer face of the frame in a warm, deep amber-gold color. The butterfly wing extensions at the outer corners extend 20mm beyond the standard frame outline, creating the dramatic wing silhouette. The lenses are polycarbonate in a soft purple tint — lavender at the top deepening to violet at the bottom in a gradient that provides category 1 sun protection appropriate for the fashion rather than solar protection function this style is primarily worn for. UV400 coating. Temple: 148mm. Supplied in an oversized butterfly-shaped rigid case.