‘Bandage 2’ Sunglasses — Black/Khaki, One Size

BANDAGE 2

The ‘Bandage 2’ is one of the most architecturally precise frames from John Galliano’s early 2000s eyewear work at Christian Dior — a men’s rectangular silhouette defined entirely by the horizontal bar construction across the bridge and upper lens that gives the model its name. In black with khaki-tinted lenses, it is the most wearable colorway the model was produced in, and the most collected. It features:

- Rectangular frame with distinctive horizontal bandage bar across the bridge — the model’s signature construction detail
- Khaki/dark-tinted lenses in lightweight plastic with full UV coverage
- Black acetate frame with slim, clean temple arms
- Close-to-face fit with secure, low-profile construction
- Galliano-era Dior engraving on temples

The black acetate carries a rigidity that reinforces the frame’s architectural logic — this is a piece that holds its shape precisely as designed, on the face and off it. The khaki lens is the right choice: neutral enough to work across contexts, dark enough to carry the frame’s authoritative proportions.

The Bandage 2 occupied a specific register in Galliano’s Dior — less theatrical than the Punk, less operatic than the Golf Visor, more architectural than anything else the house produced in that period. The horizontal bar is simultaneously structural and conceptual: it binds, it constrains, it defines. In black and khaki, it reads as utilitarian luxury — a frame as comfortable in a fashion week front row as on a motorcycle.

Size: One Size
Made in Italy
Condition: Very good vintage condition — minor wear consistent with age
Inclusions: None