By Kristen Philipkoski / Source: Eat, Sleep, Denim

Jack Spencer, a designer from Cornwall in the United Kingdom, has been working for four years to design sunglasses made from layers of denim infused with resin. On Tuesday, his company, Mosevic, launched the product on Kickstarter.

All of the sunglasses are handmade in the Mosevic workshop in the UK. The inaugural collection includes threes styles and color schemes, all of which are created using layers of denim. The polarized lenses are produced by Carl Zeiss Vision in dark gray and brown.

The Kickstarter effort is well on its way to reaching its goal: They’ve already raised $5,119 out of $7,577, with 38 days left in the campaign. I was intrigued, so I asked Jack for some more info. Read on for our interview!

Where does your denim come from?

“We are finalising suppliers of denim at the moment and so haven’t yet pinned down exactly where it is from. Most of the suppliers we are looking into are from Japan.”

Do the glasses feel like denim on the surface or are they smooth?

“One of the things that makes these glasses so interesting in my opinion is the blend of textures. The outside surfaces of the frames and the arms look and feel like denim whereas the edges and inside surfaces are impregnated with resin and are polished to a smooth surface.”

Are you targeting more men or women? What type of customer do you expect will be most enthusiastic?

“That’s a good question, the 3 styles that we are launching with are designed to be unisex styles and the nature of the product doesn’t seem more masculine or feminine to me. However, we do have some different colour schemes and we’ve found that the ‘heritage’ colour scheme (with the red stripe) is more popular amongst women. We will have to see how it goes on Kickstarter and then we can see if more men or women were customers.”

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