Fresh off the heals of top designers around the world voting the Citroen DS “The Most Beautiful Car of All Time”, the classic French automaker has released a dedicated line of lifestyle accessories.

Integrating their iconic logo into raised patterns hinting at their French fashion heritage, Citroen’s line will help launch the reintroduction of their famed Citroen DS.

The proposed DS collection will include among other products, belts, hand luggage, sunglasses even a trendy cell phone and a snowboard.

If you’re still unhappy with the variety of Wayfarer colors available, next year Ray Ban is releasing the “Colorize” kit that includes paint markers and stencils to customize your sunglasses with your very own unique look.

Twenty years have passed since Giorgio Armani launched his first line of eyewear. In order to celebrate this event Armani Eyewear is releasing an updated and limited version of one of their original styles and placed it inside a palladium frame with green lenses. the Italian designer has meaningfully called them the Anniversary Exclusive Edition.

Each pair is engraved with its edition number of 0001 – 1000 on the inside by the temple and comes in a specially marked “Anniversary Editon” Neiman Marcus case. $1000

EliteChoice informs us that the world’s most expensive sunglasses turn out to be the model number DG2027B by Dolce & Gabbana.

They are available on fashiondesignersunglasses and cost a whopping $383,609

Those sunglasses with illusion Louis Vuitton logo all over the lenses can now be had by Filipino fans of the brand as Louis Vuitton makes its eyewear collection available in the Philippines for the first time.

The Marc Jacobs-designed handcrafted eyewear has LV-philes drooling as it employs distinct design elements used in its iconic trunks and leathergoods—the S-lock, Monogram Flower and Coin de Malle hinges, for instance. The popular Monogram and Damier patterns are also used in its acetate frames.

LV’s patented Landscape Vision guarantees 100-percent protection from UV rays. All lenses go through the so-called polarization treatment that improves visual comfort: the sun glare from wet and flat surfaces is reduced and color contrast is increased.
The Spring-Summer 2008 collection has 39 styles for men and women, including the Illusion and Conspiration Pilote range that employ the Monogram logos on the lenses, retailing from $560 to $750. No worries, the logos don’t block your vision when you wear the eyeglasses.

This new addition to the LV merchandise for the local market is testament to the French luxury malletier’s confidence in the Philippines that, according to brand director Rhea de Vera-Aguirre, they’re in a constant search for a new store location in the northern part of the metropolis.

You get mad when you sit on or lose your $400.00 sunglasses, now imagine you had a pair you had shelled out a quick $65,000 on!

Enter the Luxuriator Fancy Yellow Sunglasses by Franco, and fancy they are! 18 kt gold and adorned with 132 hand set diamonds, these stunners also have a 2.0 carat Canary yellow diamond sitting on one of the brown lenses.

Available at the finest sunglasses boutiques in the United States as well as the Franco signature store in LA these sunglasses were originally created for one of Franco’s many celebrity clients. Just some of whom include Paris Hilton, Paul McCartney and Sharon Stone. Via bornrich.