In August 1979, an extremely nervous Masami Shirayama took the elevator to the penthouse suite on the top floor of the plush Hotel Okura Tokyo with sample eyeglass frames he had designed.
This sent me on an unexpected odyssey. Mainly, the eyewear hunt provoked the question, “Who am I?” My goal was to find frames that were somewhat artsy and/or chic, but not too distracting.