Yearly Archives: 2013

Vintage Sunglasses: Which COMMODORE are you?

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Thanks to our good friends across the street at Pandemonium Records for dropping off a classic Commmodores album on vinyl. The special edition album included an autographed poster of the band. Not only are the funky tunes hitting our turntable in-store, but a lot of the iconic vintage sunglasses worn by the band can be […]


New Eyewear Stock: Matttew

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New arrivals from the latest MATTTEW line have hit the shelves at Opticianado. MATTTEW is a Belgium based eyewear brand, that likes to consider their frames as a little something special, and we couldn’t agree more. Come by Opticianado soon to try the new styles and colours. All images www.matttew.com


June Live Music – 2 DATES

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Thanks to the awesome people at the Junction BIA, June in the Junction brings two dates of great Live Music at Opticianado. On Father’s day afternoon, we have our regular monthly live music series with returning favorite Arnold Faber: Sunday June 16th Arnold Faber – Vibraphone 1-4pm The Junction BIA is hosting the annual Junction […]


New Vintage Sunglasses Stock: Vintage Cartier

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Opticianado is pleased to add 2 new sunglasses to our collection of rare, vintage gold plated Cartier eyewear. These aren’t the only rare Cartier beauties in our collection. “Like” us on Facebook and check out the rest of our available Cartier eyewear in sun and opthalmic.


New Eyewear Stock: Custom matte frames

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Opticianado has a new arrival of vintage stock fresh from the sandblaster. A number of our vintage eyewear was pulled from the shelves for about a week to become custom matted. We can custom matte almost any frame from our stock, or you can bring in your own pair for an updated, new look. The […]


Eyewear colour of the year – GREEN

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Back in March members of the Opticianado team were in New York City for Vision Expo East. This is an annual show where we meet with designers to see what is new in the eyewear world. With each new brand we saw, it was becoming very clear that the trend colour for the year was […]


Opticianado x Oliver Peoples Anniversary Photos

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Thank you so much to everyone that was able to come out on Thursday April 18th to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Oliver Peoples, and the 2nd anniversary of Opticianado in the Junction. There was fantastic live music Delicious food Stunning eyewear from Oliver Peoples and lots of happy faces Thanks especially to Anushka from […]


New Sunglasses Arrival: Cazal Eyewear

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Opticianado now carries Cazal eyewear in a number of different styles. From Rick Ross to Run DMC and Judah Friedlander, celebrities have long sworn by Cazal for a bold look in frames and sunglasses. As always, the full range of styles available have been posted on our Facebook page.


New Eyewear Stock: L.A. Eyeworks

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Fresh on the shelves of Opticianado is a rainbow of new frames from one of our favorite brands L.A. Eyeworks. Photos just can’t do the colours justice, and we’ve got loads more styles not pictured. All of our photos can be found on our Facebook page, and we hope you’ll come in to the store […]


Alfred Sung visits Opticianado

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We were thrilled to have iconic Canadian fashion designer Alfred Sung drop by Opticianado a few times last month. Bringing more friends with him each time, he finally decided on a great pair of frames by Japanese designer Yellows Plus. Here is Alfred with Opticianado staff member, Blaire. And, we know what you’re all thinking, […]