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Who else had/has signature glasses frames?
A week ago I made the final mortgage payment on these stunning frames. I want these to be my signature look until I croak, I love them so much.
Who, besides the above-named people, wore a signature frame that they never veered from? I want to be among their number.
A week ago I made the final mortgage payment on these stunning frames. I want these to be my signature look until I croak, I love them so much.
Who, besides the above-named people, wore a signature frame that they never veered from? I want to be among their number.
Although the frame style changes, Sally Jesse Raphael always wears red.
Iris Apfel
posted by kimdog at 1:35 PM on October 21, 2012
Iris Apfel
posted by kimdog at 1:35 PM on October 21, 2012
NEVER veered from? that's a tough one.
Elvis Costello started off with those larger plastic frames which I was told were the NHS-standard frames that he wore as sort of an anti-fashion-statement,but as you can see he migrated to similar but smaller frames that fit his face better as he got older.
Bono is frequently found in these blue sunglasses, but he's changed colors up a bit, recently.
Johnny Depp alternates between blue aviator frames and a sort of Gregory-Peck-style tortiseshell frames.
Post senate Tom Daschle has been trying to cultivate a pair of bright red circular titanium frames as his signature look.
posted by deanc at 1:35 PM on October 21, 2012
Elvis Costello started off with those larger plastic frames which I was told were the NHS-standard frames that he wore as sort of an anti-fashion-statement,but as you can see he migrated to similar but smaller frames that fit his face better as he got older.
Bono is frequently found in these blue sunglasses, but he's changed colors up a bit, recently.
Johnny Depp alternates between blue aviator frames and a sort of Gregory-Peck-style tortiseshell frames.
Post senate Tom Daschle has been trying to cultivate a pair of bright red circular titanium frames as his signature look.
posted by deanc at 1:35 PM on October 21, 2012
Iris Apfel, though I've been beaten on preview
Erik Spiekermann
posted by Juliet Banana at 1:39 PM on October 21, 2012
Erik Spiekermann
posted by Juliet Banana at 1:39 PM on October 21, 2012
Jackie O's signature sunglasses. Swifty Lazar. Le Corbusier.
posted by jessamyn at 1:41 PM on October 21, 2012
posted by jessamyn at 1:41 PM on October 21, 2012
I always associate Lisa Loeb with her cat-eye glasses, but I don't know if she ever changed them.
posted by mazienh at 1:43 PM on October 21, 2012
posted by mazienh at 1:43 PM on October 21, 2012
NAME AND MANUFACTURER OF YOUR GLASSES PLEASE
WB Yeats had a different look in his younger and older years, but the young Yeats' glasses and the older Yeats' glasses are pretty consistent, and defining.
posted by kmennie at 1:46 PM on October 21, 2012
WB Yeats had a different look in his younger and older years, but the young Yeats' glasses and the older Yeats' glasses are pretty consistent, and defining.
posted by kmennie at 1:46 PM on October 21, 2012
How are there this many comments with no mention of Buddy Holly?!
posted by piedmont at 1:54 PM on October 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by piedmont at 1:54 PM on October 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: ^ Nashville by Etnia Barcelona
posted by BostonTerrier at 1:55 PM on October 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by BostonTerrier at 1:55 PM on October 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
Velma from Scooby Doo
Professor Farnsworth from Futurama
posted by Elly Vortex at 2:05 PM on October 21, 2012
Professor Farnsworth from Futurama
posted by Elly Vortex at 2:05 PM on October 21, 2012
Greta Christina, while not as famous as those above, is recognized for her awesome specs.
posted by mollymayhem at 3:04 PM on October 21, 2012
posted by mollymayhem at 3:04 PM on October 21, 2012
Andy Warhol.
posted by arcticseal at 3:54 PM on October 21, 2012
posted by arcticseal at 3:54 PM on October 21, 2012
Anna Wintour. Also, Karl Lagerfeld switches between a few different kinds of frames but they all keep to the same look.
posted by Houstonian at 4:20 PM on October 21, 2012
posted by Houstonian at 4:20 PM on October 21, 2012
Le Corbusier has been mentioned. Also Phillip Johnson, and a whole bunch of other architects. It's actually a bit of a schtick for an architect to wear big, slightly eccentric glasses. Just google "architect glasses" (in quotes) and you'll see what I mean.
posted by Rich Smorgasbord at 4:23 PM on October 21, 2012
posted by Rich Smorgasbord at 4:23 PM on October 21, 2012
Sporting the exact same frame since 1916, Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe.
posted by Houstonian at 4:54 PM on October 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by Houstonian at 4:54 PM on October 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
On preview: I couldn't believe no on mentioned Malcolm X!
DMC
John Waters
It's actually a bit of a schtick for an architect to wear big, slightly eccentric glasses. Just google "architect glasses" (in quotes) and you'll see what I mean.
Just in time for Halloween: 'Instant Architect' cut-out paper glasses
posted by Room 641-A at 5:07 PM on October 21, 2012
DMC
John Waters
It's actually a bit of a schtick for an architect to wear big, slightly eccentric glasses. Just google "architect glasses" (in quotes) and you'll see what I mean.
Just in time for Halloween: 'Instant Architect' cut-out paper glasses
posted by Room 641-A at 5:07 PM on October 21, 2012
Response by poster: After reading each of these responses, I smacked my forehead and yelled, "Of course!"
How, how, could I have forgotten about Edith Head?
And, if I were a young lady when he was a young man, I would have had an enormous crush on Harold Lloyd.
Thank you, collective brains.
posted by BostonTerrier at 5:31 PM on October 21, 2012
How, how, could I have forgotten about Edith Head?
And, if I were a young lady when he was a young man, I would have had an enormous crush on Harold Lloyd.
Thank you, collective brains.
posted by BostonTerrier at 5:31 PM on October 21, 2012
Lisa Loeb is so famous for her glasses that she now has her own line.
posted by decathecting at 5:55 PM on October 21, 2012
posted by decathecting at 5:55 PM on October 21, 2012
Towa Tei of Deee-Lite had a signature set of square regular glasses and signature octagonal sunglasses.
posted by deanc at 7:43 PM on October 21, 2012
posted by deanc at 7:43 PM on October 21, 2012
Le Corbusier. Full disclosure: I wear a replica of these.
posted by sweltering at 10:17 AM on October 22, 2012
posted by sweltering at 10:17 AM on October 22, 2012
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