Following its popular ASICS collaboration, Ice Studios is venturing into eyewear together with Port Tanger. And, as you might expect from a link-up between the two, the resulting sunglasses are a long way from your standard black wayfarers.
“The reason the brand stuck out to me is because they go for weird-shaped glasses. With Port Tanger, you don’t know what you’re going to get once you throw them on,” Renell Medrano, co-founder of Ice Studios, tells Highsnobiety via a phone call. “I remember walking into a store and these Port Tanger glasses looked obnoxious; but the minute I threw them on, I was like, ‘whoa, I need these.'”
Inspired by Renell Medrano’s Dominican heritage and childhood memories, the collection is releasing on September 15 via the Highsnobiety Shop. It consists of fresh colorways of Port Tanger’s popular Mektoub model, the first pair of sunglasses that Medrano ever bought from the brand, and a new style designed by the multi-hyphenate creative, named Nunny.
“I named them after my mom’s nickname because, honestly, my mom was a fly girl back in the day. She had four kids and we were in designer clothes since we were little,” says Medrano. “She had the most amazing style, so I said why not just make these glasses a tribute to her? She’s the reason why I like to dress up and put things together the way I do.”
The large-framed glasses come with a sharp silhouette that honors the styles that the Ice Studios co-founder grew up seeing on the likes of Lil’ Kim, Kelis, and Eve. These glasses had, “obnoxiously big shapes, and I’ve always been drawn to that,” says Medrano.
Putting her own spin on those gloriously OTT, oversized styles, the Nunny comes in a bold spectrum of colors — as do the collaborative Mektoud models.
All of the colorways can be seen in a lookbook shot by Medrano in her hometown of New York. Being a creative with many vices and a highly-accomplished photographer, she shoots all of her own campaigns for Ice Studios.
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