A lighter way to think about frames.

A frame can make its presence felt without looking heavy. That is a useful starting point for MYKITA, the Berlin eyewear house founded in 2003. Its name comes from the former children’s daycare, or Kita, that housed its first workshop. The more revealing part of the origin story is practical: when the team could not find a manufacturer for its designs, it built its own production operation.

That willingness to solve the making and the design together still gives MYKITA its character. The company describes its Berlin manufactory as a meeting of specialist handwork and adapted technology. Instead of treating construction as something hidden behind a finished shape, MYKITA makes it central to the way a frame looks and feels.

In an interview about MYKITA STUDIO, founder and creative director Moritz Krueger explained how a collection could begin with a question about a material, a surface or a construction method. The idea was to follow that question further than an established collection might allow. It is a useful way to look at the wider brand: attentive to function, but willing to experiment with what eyewear can be.