What Paloceras built with the Pebble series, then translated into prescription eyewear with Nouvelle Fiction optical, now reaches its third chapter: a sunglasses collection that preserves the house's sculptural grammar while turning it toward the light. Nouvelle Fiction Sun is not a spin-off. It is a continuation — on its own terms.
From Optical to Sun: The Same Language, a Different Register
Nouvelle Fiction optical was designed for indoor life — prescription precision, long-wear comfort, controlled environments. The Sun version looks outward. The volumes remain: those inflated, rounded shapes produced by a specialised heat-moulding technique applied to premium Mazzucchelli cellulose acetate — a process no conventional acetate manufacturing can replicate. What the brand calls "inflated volumes" is not a stylistic choice: it is a manufacturing constraint elevated into a visual identity.
The continuity between the two lines is one of material and method. What changes is context — and the palette that follows. Where Nouvelle Fiction optical sought the discretion of daily wear, the Sun version embraces a more deliberate chromatic presence, calibrated for natural light.
Five Silhouettes, One Structural Grammar
The collection spans five distinct shapes, all built on the DualLayer™ laminated construction — a technique that exploits the depth of the acetate to reveal chromatic dimension and colour shifts depending on the angle of light.
Statement Shapes: A2 and C2
The A2 is the collection's large square: frontal, assured, the widest silhouette in the line. It reads as a visual statement tempered by the regularity of its geometry. The C2 adopts an oversized pentagon format: it is the most emphatically sculptural shape of the collection, the one where Paloceras' signature inflated volumes are most legible, most deliberately present.
Precision and Restraint: D2, R2 and S2
The D2 revisits the cat-eye with a precision that avoids the two classic pitfalls of the genre — 1950s nostalgia and graphic overstatement. It reads sharp without theatrics. The R2 offers a sculpted round: the shape most directly tied to the tradition of the frame as pure object, reinterpreted here through the house's own volumetric language. The S2 closes the range with a clean square — the most everyday-ready of the five, the least demonstrative, and arguably the most versatile.
Every model ships with an integrated acetate nose support as standard. On request, gold-plated titanium nosepads with arms are available across the full range — a detail that subtly shifts the visual balance without altering the silhouette.
Lenses as the Primary Optical Statement
What separates Nouvelle Fiction Sun from its optical counterpart is, first, how it handles light. Three lens types from Divel Italia run through the collection, all with hard coating and 100% UV protection.
Standard, Polarising, Photochromic: Three Filters, One Standard
Standard tinted lenses deliver a fixed filter — direct, without mediation. Polarising lenses work differently: they cut surface glare from water, wet asphalt and glass, where a standard tinted lens would only reduce overall brightness. The result is sharper vision in conditions where reflected light disrupts perception. Photochromic lenses introduce a third logic: reading ambient conditions and adapting in real time. Clear indoors, darkening in full sun, they follow the wearer rather than constraining them to a fixed filter.
Hardware is consistent across the range: custom gold-plated metal by Visottica, a considered detail on the temples.
A Palette That Earns Its Complexity
Thirty colourways span the five silhouettes. The range moves from frosted aquas and milky blues through caramel browns and vivid or deep greens, out to dusty roses and smoky greys.
Finishes and Chromatic Pairings
Finishes alternate between polished transparent and sandblasted matte — two distinct registers of presence on the face that change the reading of the same colour. A polished aqua reflects light and announces itself; the same colour in frosted finish diffuses it and integrates. The pairings between frame colour and lens tint follow a deliberate logic: Aqua Frost carries a solid blue polarising lens, Caramel Ash opts for photochromic, Shadow Black chooses photochromic too — and leans into the gradual dissolution of the distinction between frame and lens. The names — Jungle Frost, Karmic Drift, Night Nectar, Wasabi Haze — function as compressed narratives attached to each reference, consistent with the editorial care Paloceras has maintained since the Pebble series.
What Nouvelle Fiction Sun Says About Paloceras
Founded in Switzerland with creative roots in Finland and Canada, Paloceras has built since the Pebble series a formal language distinctive enough to evolve without repeating itself. Since its first appearance in specialist boutiques and international press — Financial Times, Vogue, ELLE, Harper's BAZAAR — the brand has maintained a consistent position: treat the frame as a visible cultural object, not as a generic accessory.
Nouvelle Fiction Sun is the first step toward a complete eyewear house. It does not simplify what made the optical line successful — it relocates it toward a context the Pebble series had not yet directly addressed. This is an expansion of method before it is an expansion of range.
The collection is available from 14 April 2026 atpaloceras and at select independent boutiques worldwide.
