Just like Olivier Rousteing’s most recent Paris Fashion Week runways, the Balmain Eyewear collections have been intensifying the focus on the distinctive heritage of the historic house, emphasizing the radi- cally fresh and feminine outlook of Pierre Balmain’s earliest couture offerings, whose “New French Style” helped to set midcentury luxury fashion upon an entirely new trajectory. The B-Eye clearly incorporates the founder’s signature mastery of precise, architecturally inspired silhouettes, with the sculpted premium Japanese acetate giving a polished-yet-edgy, sensual spin to the timeless cat-eye, the most flattering of all feminine frames. The world’s finest titanium allows for perfect jewel-like complements, with Balmain Eyewear’s Japanese artisans crafting B-logoed titanium rivets, striking floating hinges and an eye-ca- tching, front-of-frame, sleek gold accent. The B-Eye comes in four color combinations, including the rich new Balmain Brown Leather, channeling the recurring Egyptian inspirations that have set the house’s catwalks apart in recent years..