Marly-Sport

Gainsbourg's iconic mask-like black acetate frame by Fidela: the Marly-Sport.
This is the side-view of Gainsbourg's iconic mask-like black acetate frame by Fidela: the Marly-Sport. It has very short temples and double rivets both on the front and on the temple.
This is the rest of the colors of the Pierre Marly, Marly-Sport frames from the 70's. You know the black one as Serge Gainsbourg's iconic frames.

Characteristics

Manufacturer Fidela
Made in France
Period 1970s
Brand FIDELA (Les Fils d'Aimé Marly)
Technical Super curved, mask-like shape

DISCOVERY

Location Morez (FR)
Year N/A
Digging Type N/A

The Marly-Sport by FIDELA were created for the optician and glasses designer Pierre Marly in the 1970s. These would become Serge Gainsbourg’s iconic frames. We found a handful of them in a wide-ranging stock from the from the Morezian manufacture, all of them unmarked and unfinished.

Archive: A poster ad for the Marly-Sport frame in different colors. We happen to also own the white one in our own little private museum.

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