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OUR STORY

DARKSIDE Eyewear is a Luxury Eyewear brand that combines sophisticated timeless design with the best quality materials. More than a fashion accessory our sunglasses are unique pieces that give elegance to everyday life.

It designs exclusively for consumers looking for sophisticated, urban models. No big shiny logos or crazy too-trendy designs here - just timeless shapes and high-quality handmade eyewear courtesy of skilled artisans in Portugal.

Seeking inspiration in minimalism and urban culture, the brand creates raw, strong, and clean shape sunglasses. They’re perfect for those who wear them as a uniform.

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HANDmade In Portugal

All DARKSIDE Eyewear products are designed in our Porto studio and 100% handmade in a small local factory. Each finished frame is then individually shaped, balanced and hand-polished to make sure the wearer has the feeling of wearing something really special every time they wear their DARKSIDEs.

We use Italian acetate Mazzucchelli, for lightweight and comfortable frames, and high-quality CR39 lenses. All the sunglasses come with a leather pouch, also handmade in Portugal.

 

Take your time.
Take it slow!

Take a step back.
Breath in, breath out.

It’s a subtle revolution. No explosions. No fights. Slow living is now a rising value at the heart of all the worries. It’s no more a concept but a reality and it’s transforming lives.

Today, all over the world, we dream of having time. We want a slower pace and look for answers on how to achieve it. We’ve had enough of running, from morning to night, saturated with computers and smartphones attached to the body, hands clasped to the screens when they could have been caressing, carving, transforming. We’re fed up with the imperatives of ‘more’: more profitable; more results, which we forcefully privilege to the detriment of personal, intimate, family, love life, or friends.

So why do we need to slow down if mankind has done nothing but accelerate the march? From discovery to discovery, from progress to progress, supposedly for our benefit? Maybe we’ve reached the breaking point. The Internet, e-mails, and smartphones initially caused understandable drunkenness. But now, we’re hungover.