Hipster Eyeglass Vendor Pit Stops In D.C.
Those hipster, non-prescription eyeglasses Clark Kent wears when he’s working at The Daily Planet are probably from Warby Parker. But don’t call them “hipster.”
Despite the eyeglass frame vendor drawing an almost exclusively hipster-esque crowd at the Warehouse Theater last night, Neil Blumenthal, co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, won’t use “hipster” to describe his product. He calls the frames “vintage-inspired” for the “socially-conscious.”
Blumenthal told FishbowlDC he helped start the company because he was “frustrated” going into eyeglass shops and walking out with nothing.
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