TAKE A SHOT

During their semester abroad in 2011, Matze and Hannes had the desire to create something of their own. When Matze came into contact with the first wooden sunglasses during his stay abroad, it was clear to us where the journey was heading. We weren't really satisfied with the clunky models of the time, so we started working directly on our own collection and only made the temples out of wood. That was new at that time.

While Matze looks for partners for production in Asia, Hannes prepares the brand launch in Germany. After long discussions and many glasses of red wine, the brand name is quickly found: TAKE A SHOT. Because for us the translation means: "Just do it. Dare!" - and that was exactly our motivation when we founded our company. Today, we want to pass on exactly this spirit through our brand and encourage people to go new ways. When the last savings are scraped together and the first delivery arrives in Germany, we are off: with the sunglasses in the boot and over 2000km more on the hump, we are richer by 12 shops selling our products after a weekend of spontaneous sales tours. Inspired by these first successes, we continue. Photo credit: TAKE A SHOT