These sunglasses (a dupe of the Alexander Wang for Linda Farrow zipper sunglasses) are a bit fiddly to make, but the results are totally impressive! My tutorial was featured in Free Magazine, the official magazine of Club 18-30.
Those of us stateside may not be familiar with Club 18-30, but for our friends across the pond it’s sort of known as Europe’s version of Club Med (except catering to a younger clientele, hence the name).
My DIY Alexander Wang Sunglasses have been featured in the Summer 2010 issue, which is available in all Club 18-30 destinations from May – October. (Available in 10 countries, including Bulgaria, Crete, Cyprus, Turkey, and Ibiza.)
Unfortunately they spelled my name wrong (there’s no U in it) – but ohwell! A feature’s a feature!
Since I submitted this in February, in the meantime Style Hurricane also DIY’ed her own version using a real zipper around the edge of the sunglasses.
My version is a lot more labor-intensive, but I was going for as exact a copy as possible.:-) Whichever way you go, now these fabulous designer-style sunnies can be yours at a fraction of the price!
Happy DIY’ing!
xoxox
Carly
congrats 🙂 Great DIY but involves a lot of work 😀 And precise work!
Just to let you know I won't be one of those “friends” that become mysterious “sources” of “insider secrets”. You know when you get really famous… !!
[and not that I know anything, I'm just being silly!]
This is fabulous honey!! I'm really 'proud'* to see all this. I can see how hard you work and I like seeing these 'recognition rewards'.
…I'm sure even Martha Stewart got spelled with 'u' at first!!
*proud sounds possesive and a bit condescending but I hope you know what I mean by this.
loving these sunglasses! alot of work but worth it. very stylish!
~L~
fashion DIY @ avidaccents.blogspot.com
this is great! i've been wanting to do something with sunglasses for awhile now. thanks so much for this
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Bloody heck, that's awesome! CONGRATS!
-Erin
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Congrats! That diy is great.
Very cool! I'm happy for you! 😀
Those are incredibly labor intensive but they are SO COOL!!! Great, great job!
oh. these glasses are to die for cute! so awesome!!!!
oh i loved this diy! but when i finally decide to try it the first page doesn’t work?! do you think you could reupload it? thanks! i love your work 🙂
Fixed now- thanks for letting me know, Jae!!:-)
Have fun!!
xoxoxo
Carly