2024 collection
Explore new style elements including an assortment of ‘jelly’ details, sleek wrap-around silhouettes, and an expanded spectrum of colorways that enhance Gentle Monster’s innovative design identity.
Exclusive Collections
Where high-end experimentation meets optics
BOLD Collection
Intense-colored goggle silhouettes with bold, structured frames and the signature symbol on the temples complete this collection’s bold and unique aesthetic.
Mugler x gentle monster
Mugler’s unique heritage and contemporary signature spiral details with Gentle Monster’s aesthetics, resulting in two unique silhouettes. Spiral 01 and Spiral 02 reflect the precision and artistry that define both collaborators, setting a new standard for eyewear.
2024 Optical
A new direction for optical frames, combining bold and sophisticated metal elements as well as tinted lenses of various shades. Discover the 2024 Optical Collection with bold and forward-looking designs.
About Us
Celebrating a new way of thinking about eye wear
Founded in 2011 by Hankook Kim in Seoul, Korea, Gentle Monster is a Korean designer brand specializing in sunglasses and optical glasses. Gentle Monster’s eyewear stands out for its bold designs and colors, engineered with metal and acetate, featuring distinctive oversized glasses with low bridged noses.
A designer brand that constantly develops itself under the philosophy of Innovational High-End Experiments; experimentation is part of the essence of the company. With five focuses of product, space, styling, campaign, and service, the goal of Gentle Monster is to create a radically new perspective of design, pushing the bounds of fashion and functionality…
Bigger, Bolder, Better.
stories
Why gentle monster is the cult eyewear label to know
It’s not everyday that a store greets you with a giant floating head, but at Gentle Monster, that’s par for the course. Since 2011, the Korean label has made a point of looking beyond the traditional brick-and-mortar experience. To shop with them isn’t just to peruse their designs, but consider them in the context of surreal kinetic installations…
Gladys lai
Vogue Australia
Fusing K-Pop Excitement With Immersive Retail In Luxury Eyewear
Chief among the K-brands that have taken the world by storm is the luxury eyewear brand Gentle Monster, a part of South Korea’s iiCombined. Now with 78 flagship stores in 13 countries worldwide, including seven in the U.S. following this summer’s opening at the American Dream Mall in New Jersey, plus being carried by around 200+ retail partners…
Pamela N. Danzinger
Forbes