Saint-Jean

Named for the beautiful French Alpine village where Pierre Balmain was born over a hundred years ago, the Saint Jean frame channels the spirit of the Balmain’s founder’s earliest days when, as a young man, he moved to Paris to study and work with some of France’s great architects. That early training incorporated a respect for precision and form that clearly marked the designer’s creations for the rest of his life. Far from a typical optical frame, Saint Jean’s distinctive squared-circle frames, skilled acetate-titanium pairing and bold form-follows-function lines reflect the architectural precision and principals that the young Pierre Balmain absorbed and translated into his house’s innovative and influential “New French Style.”