Cazal sunglasses and eyeglasses.
Who doesn't know the Cazal glasses ? It is the favorite brand of rappers, which can be found in many videos : Maitre Gims, Rick Ross, but also PNL and Maes, everyone is snatching the Cazal glasses. This success is not insignificant and is clearly deserved. The brand knows exactly what its customers want. Let's take a look at a success that has deeply marked the streetwear culture since the 80's and until today.
The Cazal eyewear : the story of a meeting
The year is 1975. The song Bohemian Rhapsody by the band Queen is broadcasted in loop on all the radios and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" receives the Oscar for the best movie. In Germany, Cari Zalloni, an Austrian designer who is approaching 40, decides to use his know-how in the service of eyewear. He joined forces with Günter Böttcher, a German businessman. From this collaboration will be born the unavoidable Cazal glasses. By the way, if you look closely, you will notice that Cazal is the first syllable of Cari and Zalloni.
Cazal : a trend that starts in the United States
But Cazal frames are more than just a collaboration. It's a turning point in the history of designer eyewear. Indeed, Cari Zalloni brings to his glasses generous and still unknown forms, which seem rather avant-garde for this time. The colors of the glasses are essentially black and scaled, the whole strewn with golden details, explicit and "bling-bling". The thickness of the glasses and the gold-plated metal used for the hinges attracted a lot of attention in the working class areas across the Atlantic. In the 1980s, Run DMC popularized what was to become the flagship model of the Cazal house: the Cazal 607. From this period on, the Cazal eyewear takes on a whole new dimension: Avant-garde in the 1980s, it becomes an essential accessory in the 1990s, an integral part of the streetwear dress-code. It is found more and more on the nose of Americans.
But the Cazal eyewear is just as present on the old continent
However, the Cazal vibe does not stop in Uncle Sam's country. In Europe, the glasses are more and more in vogue. But this craze will come much later. Indeed, at the time, the absence of social networks and the weak presence of the Internet implied a generality: when a trend was launched in the United States, it was necessary to count about ten years before finding it on the old continent. Today, with media coverage, globalization and the extreme vivacity of exchanges and expeditions, this generality is easily circumvented. Nevertheless, from the 2000s onwards, Cazal eyewear has been increasingly present in Europe (it is still rather strange that a product made in Germany should be successful in its own country twenty years after having been successful on the other side of the Atlantic. That's how much influence Americans have on the rest of the world).

But the existing models, Cazal Legends, do not necessarily correspond to the expectations of the French, Italians, English or Germans. Indeed, the thickness and width of the frames do not suit European faces. This problem will push Cazal to diversify its catalog. We will find more and more models with thinner frames, more discreet and therefore more easily wearable. And this, as well on the Cazal sunglasses, as on the Cazal eyewear.
The different collections of Cazal glasses.
It all started with the Cazal Legends glasses
These are the classic and iconic models, designed by Cari Zalloni at the launch of the brand. You can recognize them by their thickness and the width of their lenses. When we think of Cazal glasses, it is most of the time these emblematic models.
The Cazal 607 glasses
It is impossible to talk about Cazal Legends without mentioning the Cazal 607. It is the essential model that allowed the brand to be known by the general public. This Cazal eyewear has also crossed the ages without taking the slightest wrinkle. Indeed, we found it in the 1980s with the rap group Run DMC, then much later with Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z and even Kim Kardashian and until today, where it is worn among others by Master Gim's or N.O.S, PNL group.

These glasses have known an infinite number of colors. Originally in black and gold, the Cazal 607 is first declined in matte black and tortoiseshell. Then came the transparent and gold color, which has been the most popular color of the 607 since its release. If these colors remain rather sober, this bezel also had the right to more eccentric declinations. This is notably the case of the Cazal 607 covered entirely with snake-effect leather, in red, black tiger and grey.
For the Cazal 2022 eyewear collection.
New colors just as eccentric have made their appearance: the purple color with green lenses, the azure blue color with brown lenses, the amber color with brown lenses and the cream color with gold mirrored lenses. A fifth color is also available. It is not especially eccentric; on the contrary, it is a marvel of subtlety and style: it is a re-edition of the transparent and gold color but with a brown shade, similar to the color of champagne. The frame is accompanied by gradient brown lenses.
Cazal 163 glasses
This frame is with the 607, the most emblematic of the brand. Although it has experienced a small decline in interest from fans in recent years, this Cazal eyewear is slowly making a comeback. Like Robert Downey Jr.'s Dita Flight 006 in the movie Avengers: Infinity War, this Cazal eyewear reference appeared in the movie Supreme. It is the biopic on the group NTM. And just like Tony Stark's Dita eyewear, this eyewear has known since the release of the movie, a huge craze, which should last a long time. An old color, gold and transparent is also planned for spring 2022. Here is a return that should make people happy.
Cazal sunglasses collection, more affordable models, in every sense
As stated above, the Cazal Legends glasses did not necessarily correspond to all types of faces. It is precisely in this context that this collection intervenes. The lines are here thinner, the frames smaller and especially the prices are more affordable. There is about a hundred euros difference between the two collections. As for the flagship references, we obviously cite the Cazal 6004 glasses. We could totally make an article dedicated to this pair of glasses so much it had an impact in the success of the German brand. The Cazal 6020 glasses are in the same line. It is the same shape, the same size as the 6004, but with the bottom of the frame in metal. The Cazal 6023 and Cazal 6025 models are also very popular because they fit perfectly with the lines of the face.
And if we go on a Cazal eyewear.
If Cazal sunglasses became popular in the 1990s, it was not the case of Cazal eyewear. Indeed, the optical glasses had a completely opposite style: metal frames with very particular colors, and especially forms which made think of reading glasses of an old person. To sum it all up, rather kitschy glasses. But since 2015 or so, Cazal has decided to offer glasses that are much more modern and easily wearable. The shapes and colors perfectly represent the identity of the German brand. This is the case, for example, with the Cazal 6018 or Cazal 6023 eyeglasses. We even find some models of the solar collection as the Cazal 6004, which have been diverted into glasses. Note that many of the models offered are Cazal men's eyewear.