The Celebrity Power of Designer Glasses
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The Celebrity Power of Designer Glasses
The right Designer Glasses can make the man (or woman!).Designer glasses have come into their own in recent years with names like Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Prada, or Tommy Hilfiger being seen in most opticians’ windows.Often it’s the other way round.Sophia Loren, who now has her own range of designer glasses, was once more associated with Foster Grant, at least for sunglasses. She featured in the “Who’s That Behind Those Foster Grants?” advertising campaign (voted among the best 100 campaigns ever) along with Raquel Welch and Mia Farrow
John Lennon was synonymous with the round lens Windsor. First introduced as far back as 1880, the iconic round lens (in a variety of colours), nose saddle with no nose pads and temples that loop behind the ear became a “must have” and is now much more commonly referred to as a “Lennon”.That’s unfair.They could just as easily been called after Ernest Hemingway, Groucho Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, or Joseph Stalin, - they all wore the same style.
n comedy, the two Ronnies are the perfect example.Messer’s Corbett’s and Barker’s horn rims were all the logo the show needed. Where would Harry Hill be without his ludicrous glasses and would he really be able to convincingly deliver stupid lines like; “I have a really nice stepladder. Sadly, I never knew my real ladder.” without them?
Surely the most cringingly corporate, sickeningly sycophantic and ultimately naff use of designer glasses was when Steve Wozniak, then of Apple Computers, went so far as to have Apple -shaped glasses made for him.Steve Jobs didn’t seem to like them much obviously.Although most celebrity designer glasses are intended to boost ego, some seek to improve performance. The best example of this must be snooker player Dennis Taylor’s famous glasses which were designed by Jack Karnehm, better known as BBC TV’s snooker commentator from 1978 to 1993. He developed Taylor’s distinctive, swivel-lens, upside-down design (he had served a five year apprenticeship).Those designer glasses helped Taylor win the 1985 world snooker title!
Maybe he most unusual celebrity designer glasses wearer was Eric Sykes.A comedy genius and superb writer, Sykes was never seen without his black horn rims.But that was due to the fact that he became profoundly deaf as an adult.The glasses he wore had no lenses at all and were actually a bone-conducting hearing aid. Designer glasses, what celebrity are yours?
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