A family-owned business for five generations, the Moscot eyeglass company dates back to the late 1800s when Hyman Moscot began selling glasses from a pushcart on Manhattan’s Orchard Street. With a history like that, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Moscot’s Fall 2018 Collection reflects an abundance of classic design elements. While culling from the finer points of bygone eras, the collection remains distinctly in, of, and about today.
The other thing that defines the Moscot Fall 2018 Collection is its very specific geography. Capturing “the downtown spirit of New York City,” each pair of glasses in this collection is named after real New Yorkers, the language that they used, and/or the stories that they told.
Take the Gittel, for example. Named after the seamstress who used to tailor the shirts of second-generation Moscot leader and optician Sol Moscot, these glasses feature lenses that are just as perfectly round as the ones that she used to wear in the early 1900s.