Patrick Dempsey has created a line of Porsche glasses.
The ‘Bridget Jones’s Child’ star has fused his love of motorsports with fashionable lenses and frames for Patrick Dempsey’s The Porsche Design Eyewear assortment.
The Dempsey Racing co-owner stated: “I’ve been fascinated by the carbon fiber elements of my Porsche 991 Carrera for a very long time.
“They’re gentle, strong and completely dependable. Throughout a race, the motive force and the automotive are uncovered to huge forces. Even within the hardest situations, the motive force should have the ability to rely 100% on his gear always, so he additionally didn’t wish to compromise on the standard of the glasses version.”
The limited-edition capsule, of which there’ll solely be 1,500 pairs for every colorway, consists of the P’8965 sun shades in black-grey-blue and black-grey, in addition to the P’8754 prescription body in grey-black or gold-black. . All glasses are made from carbon fiber.
Sun shades will value $495 to $525 and prescription glasses will value $565.
The 57-year-old actor and racing driver, who has been the face of the luxurious automotive model since 2021, added to WWD: “Porsche has all the time held a particular place in my life.
“Whether or not as a racing driver or co-owner of a racing workforce, the model exudes a particular ardour and efficiency for me that I’ve all the time felt linked to. That is exactly why I worth Porsche Design as a model of the very best high quality and performance. Now, actively collaborating within the technique of designing and creating an version of glasses that bears my identify makes me really feel very completely happy and honored. The change with the design specialists was very thrilling and galvanizing.”