Gamine Eyewear, New York: Glasses in Stock

Gamine is an independent eyewear brand from New York, founded there in 2016. Its glasses are gender-neutral, mostly small round and geometric shapes with clean lines. The artist Sergei Zubkouski started it after a friend dared him to design a pair of sunglasses, and he brought an art and architecture sensibility to eyewear rather than an industry one. The brand says Lady Gaga wore its Marais and Harajuku models, which brought it international attention. It marked ten years in 2026 and is now based between New York and Paris, still designed by its founder alone.

Every Gamine frame we list is recorded as made in Italy; the brand’s own site names the material, cellulose acetate, rather than a country. The frames here are acetate, metal, or the two combined, and where they combine, the metal is the detail: the brand describes the Shinjuku’s rims and nose pads as 18k gold-plated, and the Tulum’s metal bridge as set with three zirconium stones. Most of the names are neighbourhoods: Shinjuku, Sodermalm and Nakazakicho. The Tulum takes its name from a beach town, and the Persta from Persta, the Paris jeweller it was designed with.

Small rounds

Most are round; the Nakazakicho is geometric. They are small: eye sizes run from 41mm to 48mm, and the 41mm Shinjuku and Persta rounds are among the smallest metal-rimmed frames in the store. Nothing reaches 50mm, and the smallest are on our narrow frames page. The Gamine fit guide gives every model’s measurements and says which shapes suit which faces. Most Gamine frames here are one of a kind. Each is in hand, new with demo lenses, and ships as a frame, free and insured within the US with a signature on delivery, for your own optician to fit lenses. With rounds this small, the bridge number matters as much as the eye size, and the size guide explains both.