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Savona hails from Serengeti’s Cosmopolitan collection, which means they made me look a whole lot more sophisticated than I am. I strutted around town and sand wearing it in a shiny black frame with the kind of long vertical axis that pleases celebrities (“Hey, look at me! I’m incognito!”) I drew disappointed paparazzi. Neat touch: The inside of the gently wrapped, 6-base frame is done up in a crazy zebra mosaic. But don’t think all the hoopla means Savona skimps on lens quality. Serengeti loads it with a polarized, photochromic (24% to 9% visible light transmission), brown-tint glass they call Drivers. It’s a brilliant lens. Life springs to life. None of that copper wash that some brown tints lay on a scene. Drivers has all the restfulness of a green tint, but with brilliant sharpness—thanks to the wonders of glass and, perhaps, to filters that block bothersome blue light. $189. Buy it: Free Shipping at FramesDirect.com
