Once it was designer glasses. Now it is wacky contact lenses!
We all know glasses change the way we look but in some cases they can really make the man (or woman!).
John Lennon’s trademark round lenses were so recognisable that the style came to be named after him as the ‘Lennon’.
Apart from demonstrating the power of designer glasses in terms of style, that also illustrates the importance of the other component of contemporary celebrity the modern media.
The ‘Lennon’ could as well have been called the ‘Groucho Marx’, the ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ or even the ‘Joseph Stalin’, all of whom wore the same style but it was Lennon’s name that stuck.
The movie Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise as Lt Pete Maverick Mitchell and Kelly McGillis as Charlotte Charlie Blackwood with adequate support from Val Kilmer as Lt Tom Iceman Kazansky, launched several careers and fuelled many an adolescent fantasy, arguably the real stars though were the aviator sunglasses that adorned the cast in most of the movie. When the film aired sales of the aviator style specs soared with it, as the F14 Tomcat jet fighters, which at the time were the zenith of US naval aviation. Aviator style shapes are also the preferred designer sunglasses of Cristiano Ronaldo and were the accessory of choice for the late king of pop, Michael Jackson.
Designer glasses are of course mainly about image, but sometimes that image doesn’t need to be tremendously cool. You only have to look as far as the two Ronnies with their horn rim specs which were all the logo their show really needed. Easily as widely recognisable as the glasses of Cruise and Lennon, these specs had a very different agenda of deliberately making the wearers look as silly as possible. Snooker player Dennis Taylor’s famous designer glasses had a distinctive, swivel-lens, upside-down design. They might have looked more than a little strange but there’s no question they helped him win the world snooked title in 1985. One strange celebrity glasses situation was that of comedian Eric Sykes who was never seen without his trademark black horn rim specs. In fact there was nothing wrong with Sykes’ eyesight, instead the ‘glasses’ were merely a bone-conducting hearing aid, and contained no glass at all.
And now designer contact lenses are the order of the day.
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in all kinds of colors and styles have come out of the theatre and film industry to delight us all.
Easily available online as either prescription or non prescription eye contacts these cheap theatrical contact lenses are now very popular for fashion fun and parties.
And many famous celebrities now wear custom eye contacts both on and off screen
For example did you know that both Britney Spears and Paris Hilton have brown eyes underneath those blue colored lenses?
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Funny, i was just thinking about this