- NEW YORK / TOKYO
- For wholesale information to sell at stores in the U.S./Canada/E.U./Asia please contact Opening Ceremony Showroom representatives:
Joey Laurent : joeylaurenti@openingceremony.us
Deedra Veerathanongdech : deedraveera@openingceremony.us
- For sales in Japan please contact:
Junichi HIrasawa : samojun1981@mac.com
Yosuke Nishida : familytreeprojects@me.com
- MISSION STATEMENT
- We are all born with distinct personalities.
Each individual's life experiences lead to the creation of one's personal style. Style does not start with what you wear, but the originality each person is born with. Our goal at Phosphorescence is to create sunglasses that can become an extension of yourself and your personal style. Being a visual artist and musician myself, I created Phosphorescence as an arena for all different types of creators to come together to have a space to collaborate with each other. I've always wanted to bridge the gaps between fashion, design, and art. With Phosphorescence I have created such an arena. I am inviting fashion designers, graphic designers, artists, style icons, architects, and musicians to come together to create something they might not have thought they could create. I feel all people should come together to help our creative network grow, to inspire and challenge each other to ascend in our practice, no matter what that practice is. Phosphorescence strides to become a cultural meeting point for all people.
Together the Phosphorescence team strive to create a line of eye wear that evokes creativity within the person who wears them, to make each individual who wears Phosphorescence eye wear to feel strong and original when they step into the world.
-Hisham Akira Bharoocha
- PRODUCT QUALITY
- All of our eye wear and sunglasses are hand made in Japan. We are connected to the strongest network of eye wear manufacturers who produce other world class lines such as Oliver Peoples, Dita, SALT., Chrome Hearts, among others. The quality of 'Made in Japan' eye wear is now aligned with the more commonly known 'Made in Italy' or 'Made in France' eye wear found throughout the world.
Extreme care is put into the manufacturing of our high quality product from start to finish. The materials we use are all of highest quality, made with either the best acetate or metals. All of our lenses are UV 400/99% UV cut.
Another selling point we have is all the designs are RXable, meaning that you can take the lenses out to use the frames as eye glasses (except for Zero + Maria Cornejo's designs which are none detachable) . This is usually not possible with sunglasses of this quality.
Our elite design team includes:
* Fashion designer/stylist/model Erin Wasson
* Fashion designer Maria Cornejo (Zero + Maria Cornejo)
* New York based fashion line United Bamboo
* New York based street clothing line Rockers NYC
* Fashion boutique Opening Ceremony (stores in New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo )
* Los Angeles based musicians/designers No Age
* Massachusetts/New York based musician/artist Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth
* New York based artist/musician/photographer and our creative director Hisham Akira Bharoocha
Each of these designers have created remarkable designs for our first season that vary in style and shape.
Feel free to contact us at : contact@phosprojects.com