The Pantara is a frame from Mykita's Mylon collection — a 3D-printed polyamide the house developed itself and finishes by hand in Berlin. We stock the Mylon range at 342 Oxford Street, Paddington, so you can try the Pantara on, or we will order the colourway you want.
What the Pantara is
Pantara belongs to Mykita's Mylon line, which is the only part of the collection that is printed rather than cut. The frame is built up in layers from a fine polyamide powder, then tumbled, dyed and hand-finished in the Berlin workshop. That process is why the front can carry the volume and the faceting it does — a milled acetate front of the same shape would be noticeably heavier, and a pressed metal one could not hold the geometry at all.
It is the model people arrive asking for by name, which is unusual for a house that mostly sells collections rather than icons. Handling one explains it: the surface is matte and slightly warm, closer to a fine ceramic than a plastic, and the weight is not where your eye expects it to be.
Materials, colours and lenses
Mylon takes matte finishes rather than gloss, so the Pantara appears in blacks, greys, sand and clay tones with the occasional stronger colour as the season allows. The finish wears well — it does not take the bright scuff a polished acetate picks up, and small marks burnish out rather than stand proud.
It is made as an optical frame and as a sun, and either can take your prescription. We edge lenses in store, which is worth knowing on a Mylon front: the groove is cut into a printed material with its own tolerances, and a lens traced generically and cut off site tends to sit loose or bow the rim.
How it fits, and how it compares
The Pantara is one of the broader, more present frames in the range, so it wants a bit of face to sit on and generally suits a stronger brow and a wider set of cheekbones. If it overwhelms you, the honest alternative is the stainless steel Lite collection, which does the same design language in a fraction of the visual weight; if you like the volume but want a softer edge, the acetate frames sit between the two. Against a heavy Italian acetate of similar proportions, the Pantara wins comfortably on weight, which is the whole argument for the material.
Runs are small and Mylon colourways change. Ring us on 02 9331 4650 to check the cabinet and the current order book before you travel in, and we will put a pair aside if it is here.