AHLEM Eyewear

AHLEM was launched in 2014 by Paris born, Los Angeles based designer Ahlem Manai-Platt, who first broached the subject with friends at a cafe in Paris. "We were discussing goals, and I showed the group a Sketch from my notebook" she says. "The excitement they expressed gave me the guts; the loss of a beloved pair of vintage sunnies shortly thereafter gave me the final push."

What emerged from those initial sketches was a debut run of nine handmade eyewear frames, rendered in Italian Mazzucchelli acetate. Out of the gate, AHLEM had a unique and fully formed point of view that carries Ahlem Manai-Platt's work today. Now, with a flagship store on Venice's Abbot Kinney Boulevard and a second outpost in the heart of Nikita in Manhattan, our organic shapes and elegant geometries - suited to West Coast beaches, Parisian sidewalks, and beyond - continue to offer original and dynamic interpretations of modern eyewear for men and women.