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Posting this while watching advertising- induced-much-delayed-telecast of Pacquaio - Marquez bout via local channel.

The trend was seen since last year but still seen in the catwalk for F/W 2008.

The Ray-Ban Wayfarer is a design of sunglasses manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Wayfarers enjoyed early popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, especially after they were worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Though the sunglasses had faded from the limelight by the 1970s, a lucrative 1982 product placement deal brought Wayfarers to their height of popularity.

Audrey Hepburn

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Madonna / Desperately Seeking Susan

Tom Cruise/Risky Business

Wayfarers were designed in 1952 by Raymond Stegeman, an inventor who procured dozens of patents for Bausch and Lomb, Ray-Ban’s parent company. The design was a radically new shape, “a mid-century classic to rival Eames chairs and Cadillac tail fins.” According to design critic Stephen Bayley, the “distinctive trapezoidal frame spoke a non-verbal language that hinted at unstable dangerousness, but one nicely tempered by the sturdy arms which, according to the advertising, gave the frames a ‘masculine look.’

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Bob Dylan

Andy Warhol

Agyness Deyn

Botega Venetta Fall/Winter 2008

Kate Olsen

You have to have a high bridge nose to get away with this. The Audrey Hepburn version is more chic than the 80’s version. Kaloka kasi yun pic ni Madonna. I don’t think it should be a called a “trend” since it’s already a classic icon associated with John Lennon, James Dean, John F. Kennedy, Roy Orbison, and Andy Warhol.