Anna-Karin Karlsson: Sunglasses made for icons

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  She's not just a designer, but she's an artist.

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  She makes things that you never thought possible work and you get hooked

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  because it's like nothing else that you've ever seen.

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  Welcome to the documentary podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Swedish journalist Anna Åkelund.

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  And for this episode of In The Studio, I'm delving into the creative mind of Anna-Karin Karlsson,

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  who makes some of the world's most iconic glasses and sunglasses frames.

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  I need to push myself or push the things I'm making to...

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  I wouldn't say perfection, but to the way I see it.

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  And that's why sometimes things take a long time when I make them.

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  Like me, Anna-Karin Karlsson lives in Sweden,

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  a tiny Nordic nation with a population of just over 10 million people.

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  But her bold, bejeweled frames are collected,

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  coveted and celebrated by some of the biggest global music stars of the last few decades,

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  like Beyoncé, Madonna and Snoop Dogg, as well as other fashion fans across the planet.

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  We have an optical shop in Ghana,

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  which does luxury eyewear and one of our biggest, biggest products.

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