Why we strip colour from everything we make — and what's left when you do.
Colour is a trend. It arrives, it saturates, it dates. Black and white do not move. They are the constants against which every other choice is measured — the grammar beneath the language of style.
When we design a frame, we remove the variable of colour entirely. What remains is pure form: proportion, balance, the line of a temple, the weight of a bridge. There is nowhere to hide. A monochrome object is only as good as its geometry.
This is harder, not easier. A flash of colour can rescue a mediocre shape. Restraint cannot. Every OPTIQUE frame has to earn its place on the face through silhouette alone.
