Dolce & Gabbana and Ray-Ban mark the aviator’s 90th anniversary by stepping into one of eyewear’s most fixed ideas and loosening its grip. The shape stays familiar, teardrop lenses, fine metal construction, that second crossbar between the lenses, though the details push the frame somewhere new.
Dolce & Gabbana x Ray-Ban
The Outdoorsman II arrives with a firmer outline, its lines sharpened and clarified, while a mother-of-pearl brow bar pulls the whole design toward jewelry. Lens options run from mirrored blues that catch the light like open water to softer transparent tones that sit easier on the skin. The case itself is made to be worn, designed in leather with a strap and gold-tone carabiner so it hangs on the body as an accessory in its own right.
Photographed by Gray Sorrenti, the campaign captures Kit Butler, Owen Lindberg, and Grant Vosburgh in a setting that trades aviation history for sun, skin, and proximity. The images go Mediterranean but poolside, with tank tops and swimwear filling most of the frame while the glasses hold their ground at the center.
There is a trace of 1970s hedonism in the casting and styling, a scene Helmut Newton might have glanced at, though it stays current through its restraint. The aviator has lived many lives, and this one goes close to the body, seen up front, folded into the everyday theater of summer.
That same holiday looseness shapes Dolce & Gabbana’s pajama-led spring 2026 campaign.
