Cutler and Gross was founded in 1969 in London, a year in which so many beautiful things were created: from the birth of Scooby Doo, the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon, the Woodstock Festival, the 1st edition of The Godfather to the Abbey Road album by the Beatles. . Two optician friends: Graham Cutler and Tony Gross, one a businessman and the other a rock star and party animal in the making. Tony Gross hung out in several London nightclubs every weekend and built up a mega network of celebrities with thousands of rounds, each of whom fell in love with the handmade, fashionable and hippest glasses of London, long before the fashion houses entered the world. eyewear industry. Real pioneers, with a lot of courage to test new techniques.
In 1969 they bought their first store together, where they manufactured their glasses by hand in their own studio on the first floor. They did everything that needed to be done themselves. Cutler and Gross glasses are (still) handmade in their own factory from the very best acetate.
The same passion still comes from the same factory where it all started and that is a rarity these days.
Combine British luxury with the rough edge that comes with exclusive, completely handmade glasses.
Cutler and Gross gave each frame manufactured a unique number instead of a logo. The gold logo was also placed on the inside of each right leg. The logo was placed on the inside (and not on the outside) because Cutler and Gross did not want to make the frame a billboard, but wanted to emphasize the understated class of the frame. The iconic frames of this eccentric brand are often worn by celebrities such as Bowie, Beatles, Rolling Stones Madonna, Gaga, Stevie Wonder, and for example in all Kingsman films. Within the absurdly large collection of glasses fetishist Elten John, the majority consists of more than 200 C&G glasses and that is still growing every month.
You have to touch the glasses, there is a rare high quality palpable that is almost impossible to explain. Only the purest and most beautifully hardened acetate from Italy is good enough for CUTLER & GROSS – With models from 50 years ago still in the collection and with brand new models every quarter that are plausibly the vintage from 50 years ago.
“If you buy a handcrafted pair of glasses or sunglasses, you want to see the tiny inaccuracies, the straight, raw edges of the plastic, the pins – they give character, make them unique to the wearer. The Cutler and Gross customer has always been an individual. Eccentric maybe, but a weird breed, certainly.”
– Graham Cutler
