Eyeballs Eyewear in Paddington is a Sydney stockist of Celine glasses and sunglasses, and we hold the core optical shapes along with the oversized sun models. You can try them on at 342 Oxford Street, about ten minutes from the Sydney CBD, open seven days.
One shape, done with total conviction
Celine eyewear does one thing and does not hedge: a hard, clean, oversized shape in glossy black or deep tortoise, with nothing on it. The house itself dates to Paris in 1945, but the eyewear as most people now recognise it belongs to the last fifteen years, and under the current direction the collection has narrowed rather than expanded.
Squared fronts, thick rims, a flat top line, and a temple that carries the smallest possible mark of identification. No hardware, no contrast wire core on display, no logo across the lens. The confidence sits entirely in the proportion — which is a harder discipline than it sounds, because a frame with no decoration has nowhere to hide a bad line.
The shapes people actually ask for
Most enquiries land on a handful of pieces. The Triomphe line takes the house's arc motif into a rounded metal and acetate shape and is the one that has travelled furthest. The oversized square known as Audrey, and its smaller sibling Baby Audrey, are the frames that set the template everyone else copied. Shadow is the softer, deeper round for people who want the scale without the corners. Everything else is catalogued by reference number in the CL40 series, so if you have a code rather than a name, that is just as useful to us.
They are made in Italy from block acetate and they wear heavier than a Japanese frame of the same dimensions. That is part of the character rather than a flaw — the density is what keeps the top line straight on a front this wide.
What we hold in Paddington
We buy the parts of the range that people come in asking for, and we keep the classic colours in stock rather than only the seasonal ones.
- Core optical squares and rounds
- The oversized sun collection, including the models that sell out fastest
- Black, havana and crystal as the standing colours
- Metal and combination frames from the Triomphe line
- Prescription lenses fitted to most of the sun frames, edged in store
Who they suit, and how to judge the size
On the right face these are among the most decisive frames anyone makes. A strong brow and a defined jaw carry a heavy square easily; a softer, rounder face is usually better served by Shadow or one of the rounded Triomphe shapes, where the same scale arrives without the hard corners. The real variable is not width but front depth — an oversized Celine sits low on the cheek, and whether that reads as elegant or as too much depends on the distance from your eye to your cheekbone, which no size chart records.
So the size printed inside the temple is a poor guide here. Put two on, stand back from the mirror, and let us bend the temples in properly before you decide — a heavy acetate that is not adjusted will slide, and people blame the frame. If you are travelling in for a specific model or reference, ring 02 9331 4650 and we will check it is here first.
