Stuttgart, Germany · Since 1972

Porsche Design

Form and function from the people who designed the 911.

The House

Porsche Design — the story.

Porsche Design was founded in 1972 by Ferdinand Alexander Porsche — the man who designed the original 911 — as a studio for transferring Porsche's industrial-design principles into everyday objects. Eyewear was one of the first product categories.

The 8478 aviator launched in 1978 with one trick that no one had seen before: interchangeable lenses, swapped in seconds without tools. It became the unofficial sunglass of Steve McQueen, Yoko Ono, Diana Ross, and the production designers of every action movie of the late seventies.

Forty-eight years later it's still in the collection. So is every principle that made the original work: aerospace materials, function-first geometry, restraint where every other brand would add a logo.

Signature Piece

What we'd put on your face first.

The 8478 aviator, still in production with its original interchangeable-lens mechanism intact.

Why we carry it

The shop's take.

Because some of our clients want their sunglasses to look like industrial design objects, not fashion objects. Porsche Design is the answer.

Try them in person

Come walk the floor.

Every Porsche Design frame in our collection is here to be tried on. Walk in during open hours, or book a personal-shopping appointment for the full experience.

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