{"id":352,"date":"2013-09-20T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/testimonials\/?p=352"},"modified":"2013-09-20T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:37:37","slug":"alain-mikli-a-force-in-the-eyewear-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Alain Mikli, A force in the eyewear industry."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikli&#8217;s line features unique colors and shapes, and are a favorite among European celebrities and avant-garde Americans. Mikli claims his use of color is inspired by his\u00a0Lebanese Armenian\u00a0heritage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/5532_118163169797_118082004797_2159454_4848793_n1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-353\" alt=\"5532_118163169797_118082004797_2159454_4848793_n1\" src=\"http:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/5532_118163169797_118082004797_2159454_4848793_n1.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/5532_118163169797_118082004797_2159454_4848793_n1.jpg 397w, https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/5532_118163169797_118082004797_2159454_4848793_n1-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1978, Mikli opened his design studio in\u00a0Paris. By 1983, celebrities like\u00a0Elton John\u00a0helped bring the line recognition by wearing and touting Mikli products.\u00a0Kanye West\u00a0wore Alain Mikli sunglasses in his music video,\u00a0Stronger, which he specifically requested from the designer. This style of sunglasses has become a wide phenomenon, usually being referred to as &#8220;shutter shades&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PsO6ZnUZI0g\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikli&#8217;s line features unique colors and shapes, and are a favorite among European celebrities and avant-garde Americans. Mikli claims his use of color is inspired by his\u00a0Lebanese Armenian\u00a0heritage. In 1978, Mikli opened his design studio in\u00a0Paris. By 1983, celebrities like\u00a0Elton John\u00a0helped bring the line recognition by wearing and touting Mikli products.\u00a0Kanye West\u00a0wore Alain Mikli sunglasses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,102,7,100,34,101,45,103],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends","tag-alain-mikli","tag-artistic-eyewear-west-chester","tag-doylestown-optical-shop","tag-elton-john-eyewear","tag-funky-glasses","tag-kayne-west-glasses","tag-luxury-eyewear","tag-unique-optical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisticeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}