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Artform: Alain Mikli, a former optician who turned to design, recently appeared at Karir, Toronto's newest high fashion eyewear boutique, to introduce 500 of his sun and prescription glasses
Artform: Alain Mikli, a former optician who turned to design, recently appeared at Karir, Toronto's newest high fashion eyewear boutique, to introduce 500 of his sun and prescription glasses

Artform: Alain Mikli, a former optician who turned to design, recently appeared at Karir, Toronto's newest high fashion eyewear boutique, to introduce 500 of his sun and prescription glasses

Date3/28/1989
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Alain Mikli eyewear designer
Alain Mikli eyewear designer
3/28/1989
Special Specs, Optician Mel Rapp, who operates Rapp Optical on College St., adjusts a pair of Papilion-style glasses that he purchased in Paris.
Special Specs, Optician Mel Rapp, who operates Rapp Optical on College St., adjusts a pair of Papilion-style glasses that he purchased in Paris.
4/4/1991
Latest Fad among people wearing prescription glasses or sunglasses is having their own initials put on in rhinestones or gold leaf for a personalized (...)
Latest Fad among people wearing prescription glasses or sunglasses is having their own initials put on in rhinestones or gold leaf for a personalized (...)
7/16/1976
A man who's usually up on the stage rather than sitting in the front row, folksinger Gordon Lightfoot (with glasses) dropped in on his friends The Good Brothers, from Richmond Hill, at concert in University of Toronto's Convocation Hall Friday night
A man who's usually up on the stage rather than sitting in the front row, folksinger Gordon Lightfoot (with glasses) dropped in on his friends The Good Brothers, from Richmond Hill, at concert in University of Toronto's Convocation Hall Friday night
8/9/1974
fashion desinger Dan Caten wears his collegiate-look, black framed glasses strictly as an accessory
fashion desinger Dan Caten wears his collegiate-look, black framed glasses strictly as an accessory
12/24/1986
I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
5/26/1984
Glare of publicity or television lights does not usually faze former prime minister John Diefenbaker - but he likes dark glasses in Barbados (left). O(...)
Glare of publicity or television lights does not usually faze former prime minister John Diefenbaker - but he likes dark glasses in Barbados (left). O(...)
12/2/1976
Glared of publicity or television lights does not usually faze former prime minister John Diefenbaker - but he likes dark glasses in Barbados (left). (...)
Glared of publicity or television lights does not usually faze former prime minister John Diefenbaker - but he likes dark glasses in Barbados (left). (...)
1/23/1977
Four-Year-Old Richard Mallais says hello to his friend in dark glasses-Athena, a 16-year-old dog owned by Peter Nicholson which has performed at the C(...)
Four-Year-Old Richard Mallais says hello to his friend in dark glasses-Athena, a 16-year-old dog owned by Peter Nicholson which has performed at the C(...)
8/17/1978
A $136,000 winner on the Lincolnshire Handicap sweepstakes on Saturday, Bob Allan (centre) in dark coat and glasses, celebrates the good news in his P(...)
A $136,000 winner on the Lincolnshire Handicap sweepstakes on Saturday, Bob Allan (centre) in dark coat and glasses, celebrates the good news in his P(...)
3/26/1972
Camp Oasis Frog catching Detail with Jesse Burgie, 10 (Glasses) Looking over his Shoulder
Camp Oasis Frog catching Detail with Jesse Burgie, 10 (Glasses) Looking over his Shoulder
9/3/1998
Here's to you, Toronto: Glasses were clicked yesterday at Fort York as Kenneth Sager, left, and his wife, Karen, enjoy their millionaire's vacation, joined by John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, played by broadcaster Warre
Here's to you, Toronto: Glasses were clicked yesterday at Fort York as Kenneth Sager, left, and his wife, Karen, enjoy their millionaire's vacation, joined by John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, played by broadcaster Warre
10/26/1981