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This past Wednesday was the #SprungTO event where influencers around Toronto gathered to talk about eyewear, music, luxury, and their personal projects.

SPRUNG was an invite-only event that attracted interesting and passionate people from the Arts, Fashion, and Entertainment communities. What was the soul reason for this event? It was the motivation of luxury brand photographer and designer, Nathaniel Anderson, who wanted to bring like-minded people together and provide a great social experience for attendees.

There was complimentary beverages, food, great music by the in house Dj and even Flow 93.5‘s radio host, Jeni was emceeing the prizes and the speeches for the event.

Some notable guests were Davide Stennett, who is a designer of this beautiful jewellery, Restoration Couture; Toronto City Gossip, a popular Toronto website covering reviews and news of the hottest places in the city; Aimee Cook from the blog, Rants of a Red Head, as well as, Corporate Traveler, and Studio Film Group.

Overall, a great night filled with beautiful people, high-styled eyewear, and great conversations with really interesting people.

*Pictures courtesy of LXRY Magazine*

From left to right: Marcel Stewart (Benvolio), Kaleb Alexander (Romeo)

Gafas associate Marcel Stewart (who is a rising actor in Toronto) will be featured in two Shakespeare plays this month: Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth. Both plays will be happening at Central Commerce Collegiate, which is at Harbord and Shaw (near Ossington Station). There is a performance of R&J happening next Saturday, April 28th, at 2pm, and then Macbeth will be performing the same day at 7:30pm. If you’re interested in seeing some theatre than why not check out these two amazing plays! Tickets can be purchased at the door OR by going to www.shakespeareinaction.org!

From left to right: David Shelly (servant), Kaleb Alexander (Romeo), Marcel Stewart (Benvolio)

From left to right: David Shelley (Macbeth), Marcel Stewart (Witch), Shaina Silver-Baird (Witch), Kaleb Alexander (Witch), Chris Karczmar (Banquo)

From left to right: Peter Smith (Duncan), Eze Anguis (Malcolm), Marcel Stewart (Bloody Captain)

The Gucci brand has presented the new line of Spring/Summer 2012 sunglasses “Flora Eyewear Collection” for the current fashion eyewear season.

The new Gucci glasses are shown with different colorful shades. Each pair is decorated with flower details, butterfly elements.

Nothing says “Let’s celebrate the Irish!” more than sporting your favourite green shirt, putting on some U2, and hitting up the local pub for a pint of green beer! Sadly, at Gafas, we can’t offer you any of the above, but what we can do is add the finishing touches to your creative St. Patrick’s Day attire…in the form of some amazing green coloured frames and lenses. With every brand from Ray Band to Gucci to Mykita having their own twist on green coloured frames and lenses, we’ve got just what you need to complete any St. Patty’s Day costume! So come on by the shop and check out our selection of green glasses!!

Fashion Fashion Fashion!!!

Over the last few years the hype surrounding NBA All-Star Weekend has shifted. Instead of being about the actual events (Rookies vs Sophomores, 3 pt Shoot-out, Dunk Contest, etc.) now people are focusing on the fashion statements that the elite players make. Every star from Lebron James to Dwayne Wade use the All-Star festivities as a way to demonstrate their keen fashion sense. And you know what that means?? Glasses Glasses and more Glasses! Which brands do you expect to see on the Red Carpet? Tom Ford? Chrome Hearts? Dior? Gucci? I know I’ll be glued to the TV this weekend to find out!!

At the Toronto International Car Show (which runs from Feb 17th-Feb 26th), Rolls Royce will be unveiling it’s 2012 Mini Cooper S inspired by Goodwood (Goodwood being the home of Rolls Royce’s factory). This car is pure class….buuuuuuut just up the street from the Metro Convention Center there’s another Royce looking to make some noise too. Royce by Dita is a beautiful frame that speaks to the quality of Dita’s craftmanship.  Simply holding a pair of these frames may seduce you FOR LIFE!! Come on over to Gafas to try on a pair!!

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

NOMNOMNOM GAFAS!! XOXO

Because we love our clients so much, we’ve decided to do a give-away contest to show our appreciation for both old and new clients alike. It’s like a belated Xmas Gift or a present to bring in the New Year! Welcome to 2012 and all that Gafas Optical Shop has in store for you!

The prize….
We are giving away an original old-school Rayban Wayfarer from the Kings of Past Vintage Eyewear Collection!

How it works….
1. Leave a comment on the Rayban photo on the Gafas Optical Shop Fanpage (the image is has it’s own photo album – The Original Old School Contest). Tell us why you want to win and/or what Rayban means to you.
2. Get people/friends to “like” your comment. Each “like” counts as a vote.
3. When the contest closes, we will count up each person’s votes and the individual with the most “likes” wins! Easy peasy as pie!

Run time….
January 4, 12:00 a.m.        UNTIL       January 18, 2 p.m.

We will contact the winner on Facebook with a message as well as announce the winner on the Facebook page and Twitter!

• The contest is open to all individuals over the age of 18.
• There is no purchase necessary to enter or win this contest.
• There is no fee for entering the contest or for picking up the prize.
• If the winner does not respond to Gafas’ attempts to contact them after one week (7 days), we will contact the runner-up (the individual with the second-most votes).

Boxing Day: An annual event where shops slash their prices to the excitement of shoppers everywhere. The craziest retail day of the year.

So Boxing Day is great and all, but its only a day so all that sale craziness gets packed in a short time frame resulting in wild line-ups, claustrophobic spaces, etcetera.  At Gafas Optical Shop, we want you to have a great shopping experience (same as you would any other time you come to the shop) while still enjoying our annual sale of epic proportions. And because we are so awesome, we are making boxing day BEFORE Christmas. After all, what good is a sale AFTER Christmas?

This sale only happens once a year and is the only sale of this magnitude that we have so take advantage of the savings now.

What do we have in store for you?

Many Canadian men and women fought, supported and died for our country through the years fighting for our freedoms. Today marks a day of rememberance so that their struggles are not forgotten and we continue to fight injustice and inequality in our country.

One such Canadian was Elsie Macgill who was the first woman to receive an electrical engineering degree in Canada and the first woman aircraft designer in the world. She was born in Vancouver in 1905, and move to Ontario to study at the University of Toronto. In 1927, she graduated, the first woman in Canada to obtain an applied science degree in Electrical Engineering. Two years later, she was the first woman in North America to graduate with a master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Michigan. In her last year of study, she became ill with polio, and was told she would never walk again. Being the strong woman she was (after all, she had defied the status quo for women at that time by gaining a degree in a male-dominated industry), she did walk again albeit with the assistance of crutches which she used for the rest of her life. She was designer of the Maple Leaf Trainer II whose innovative design gave pilots greater visibility and stability during take-offs and landings and the first aircraft to be designed by a woman. The company Elsie worked for as Chief Aeronautical Engineer (the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, aircraft division) won a contract to produce Hawker Hurricane fighter planes for the British government during World War II and Elsie was put in charge of the operation. She re-designed components of the plane, oversaw the design and manufacture of the tools needed for production and supervised a staff of more than 4 thousand people who produced about 1450 Hawker Hurricanes by the end of the war. She also developed a winterized version of the plane, equipped with de-icers and skies for use in northern climates. Her work on the Hawker Hurricane planes earned her the title “Queen of the Hurricanes” which was also the title of a comic book that was written about Macgill who had become a symbol of the economic changes in Canada in World War II.

After the war, she continued fighting for freedoms but on Canadian soil with her activism for women’s issues like paid maternity leave, day care facilities and liberalization of abortion laws.

We love these vintage optical frames from the Kings of Past Vintage Eyewear Collection which are very similar to the style that Elsie Macgill sported throughout her life…

Fendi F10 228

Gucci GG2384 VF4