AKILIA - This Indie Sunglasses Brand Doesn’t Care What Shape Your Face Is

In the 2010s, Chris Mart, founder of Akila, was sketching dozens of eyewear designs for other brands, most of which would never get produced. “At some point, the sketches stop being enough,” he says. He wanted his ideas to come to life, naturally he wanted to hold and wear the frames he was crafting, so he started his own eyewear brand.