Prada Frames?

[William Stacy O.D.]

Is someone else (other than Luxottica) now distributing Prada frames? I'm looking for a PR 61 in copper, and big L doesn't have it any more. Thanks

[Mikef]

No


Are you sure you got the right color. The frame was just released this summer in 4 colors and copper was not one of them.

[spartus]

I've run into more than a few knucklehead order takers at Lux. For example, I tried to order temples for a discontinued Killer Loop frame, and asked for Model 13657 (or whatever) in color 116. They told me they were discontinued, no more ever.

Then, by pure dumb luck, another pair for a different patient arrived a few days later, which happened to be exactly the ones I had been looking for. Someone else had ordered them for a different patient, but the color number was 116/58, which was the polarized lens version of the same frame. Called Lux, asked for temples in color 116/58, and magically, they have them in stock.

Call them back and ask for the available colors of the model. Betcha that one of them is "Gloss Copper" or "Autumn Flash" or something else dumb.