24/12/2025
The glasses maker HAUS opened in November 2024 in an old red brick building next to Berlin’s Spree River. The space is part workshop, part warehouse, part design studio, and every pair of MYKITA glasses is made there. Or, should I say, tormented there.
MYKITA engineers operate custom devices that repeatedly bend and contort frames into painful-looking shapes that’d snap most glasses like a toothpick. But if these glasses can’t handle it, they’re not worthy of the MYKITA name.
Typically, MYKITA sticks to materials that it can shape in-house. But occasionally, it’ll partner with the rare manufacturer with equally exacting standards. Recently, these companies have happened to be fellow bastions of German engineering, such as Leica and RIMOWA, which, following four years of testing, worked with MYKITA to create glasses using the aluminium from its famous suitcases.
MYKITA’s practice has always been about far more than aesthetics. “In the end, eyewear is about integrity,” Moritz Krueger says. “If the construction is honest, the finished frame feels effortless.”
Read more about the process of creating these innovative glasses at the link in bio.
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