Made by hand

Fashion

Made by hand

Matsuda, Japan

8 August 2026

I found these sunglasses at Amangiri before I knew much about Matsuda. I liked them first. Then I learned how they were made: by hand in Japan, through a process that can involve hundreds of individual steps. The craftsmanship made me appreciate them differently.

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