Milano Square Sunglasses
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Milano Square
Sunglasses
A narrow rectangular lens set in a thick acetate front, with wide flat temples and a metal marker at the hinge. Six colourways.
Polarised lenses with anti-glare treatment and full UV400 filtering.
Narrow on purpose
The lens here is short from top to bottom and long across, which pulls the eye sideways and makes the frame read as a line rather than a shape. Thick acetate around a small lens is what gives it presence; the narrow opening is what keeps it from looking oversized. It is a deliberately compact frame on a face that expects a big one.
Photographed here in the black finish. The same front is offered in six colourways.
Cut from a thick sheet
The front is moulded acetate carried well beyond the lens on every side — thick across the brow, thick at the outer corner, and stepped where it meets the bridge. That mass is what holds the shape; there is no wire and no metal rim anywhere on the front.
The temples are wide flat arms rather than thin ones, hinged on metal barrels and set with a raised metal marker on the outer face just behind the hinge. Several colourways run the temple in a contrasting tone to the front, so the frame reads one colour head-on and another in profile.
The frame is acetate; the translucent finishes are the same material left unpigmented.
Where it sits
- A narrow lens opening that sits low on the brow and clear of the cheek
- Thick acetate spreads the weight across the bridge instead of pinching it
- Wide temples sit flat against the head rather than standing off it
- A moulded acetate bridge, so the height on the nose is fixed rather than adjustable
- Reads compact on a wide face and deliberately oversized on a narrow one
Filtered, not just tinted
The lenses are polarised with an anti-glare treatment and full UV400 filtering across UVA and UVB. Polarisation is what removes the flat white shine off a wet road, a windscreen or open water; UV400 is the protection figure, and it is the number worth reading on any pair.
A short lens opening means less light is blocked from below, so the darker tints are the ones to reach for in open sun.
Six colourways, one front
The range also includes Black and Black Gray — both black fronts, shown higher up the page, differing in the tone of the temple. Pick by name from the options above the page.
Why it costs what it costs
A thick acetate front is not the cheap way to build a frame. The material is cut from sheet and finished by hand at the edges, the temples are wide enough to need a proper barrel hinge rather than a pin, and a polarised lens costs more than a tint. None of that is where the usual shelf price comes from.
We sell direct. There is no shop floor between the frame and you and no distributor taking a cut on the way, so the retail margin that normally sits on top of a build like this is simply not in the price. What that money pays for instead is the lens — polarised with UV400 on all six colourways, rather than the good lens being reserved for one finish.
- Sold direct — no retail margin stacked on the frame
- Polarised, UV400 lenses rather than a plain tint
- Moulded acetate front rather than a thin printed plastic one
- Metal barrel hinges on a wide temple, not a pressed pin joint
- Six colourways at one price, including two translucent finishes
| Frame | Acetate, moulded |
|---|---|
| Finishes | Solid, tortoiseshell and translucent |
| Rim | Full rim, narrow rectangular opening |
| Hinge | Metal barrel hinge |
| Bridge | Moulded acetate, fixed |
|---|---|
| Temples | Wide flat acetate with a metal marker at the hinge |
| Lens | Polarised with anti-glare treatment |
| UV protection | UV400, UVA and UVB |
1 × Milano Square Sunglasses · 1 × case · 1 × cleaning cloth
Is this a small frame?
The lens opening is narrow, but the front is wide because the acetate is thick. It covers less of the eye area than it looks like it will, which is what makes it read modern rather than protective.
Are the nose pads adjustable?
No. The bridge is moulded into the acetate front, so the height on the nose is fixed. An optician can warm and reshape acetate slightly, but the bridge itself is not adjustable the way metal pads are.
What does polarised actually change?
It removes the flat glare that bounces off horizontal surfaces — wet tarmac, a car bonnet, water, snow. Colours look deeper and you squint less. It is separate from UV filtering, which this lens also carries at UV400.
Do the translucent colours show marks?
Less than people expect. Skin oil shows on any acetate; on a translucent finish it wipes off the same way. The cloth supplied is enough.
Can prescription lenses be fitted?
An optician can glaze single-vision lenses into it. The opening is short, so progressive lenses need more height than this frame gives.
How should it be cleaned?
Rinse under cool water to lift grit, then dry with the cloth supplied. Keep acetate away from heat — a car dashboard in summer is what warps a frame, not wear.
Six colourways, and not many of each
Each finish is held in a small run. The translucent pink and the tortoiseshell are the two that go first, and when a colourway goes it is not always brought back.
Pick your colourway above and add it to the bag. If it is not right on your face, send it back — the only thing you risk is missing the one you wanted.