Founded in 1969, British luxury eyewear brand Cutler and Gross combines the finest Italian craftsmanship with irrefutably cool style. Since its establishment in fashion’s halcyon days, the brand’s signature creativity has been applied to sunglasses and optical frames with their trademark numbered designs and absence of an ostentatious logo.

For decades, Graham Cutler and Tony Gross’s frames relied, in part, upon their reputation being dripped and whispered within style and fashion circles like verbal quicksilver. Considered bastions of iconic eyewear, Cutler and Gross designs continue to grace many of the most recognisable faces in the worlds of art, design, music and film.

As one of Hollywood's original heart-throbs, James Dean made an everlasting stamp on popular culture during his short time in the spotlight. The 9290 is a rounded-square frame with high brow lines and a recessed nose bridge, inspired by the styles Dean was often photographed in, those candid portraits now canonised in Americana culture by fans and critics of the silver screen.