I am constantly reminded that I am totally in the wrong business. Did you know that there are people whose job consists of nothing more than forming opinions and reviews of luxury resorts, luxury hotels, luxury spas, luxury handbags, designer shoes, perfumes, and eye wear? I wonder what it pays.
Apparently… Everything! Here are the top names in men’s eye wear according to the lucky people I just mentioned above: Gucci (big surprise there); Armani (another big surprise); Chanel (I thought they made perfume); Oliver Peoples; Christian Roth; Cartier; Oakley; Burberry; Ray-Ban (weren’t the men in black and wearing those kinds of mens sunglasses?); Persol; Mikli; and Sama. So if you have glasses by any of those designers you are fashionable. Congratulations.
Just for fun I pulled up Gucci eyes wear; there were 79 styles of men’s designer eye wear. All very nice… And well they should be! They should drive you home after buying them! $495 seemed to be the most expensive pair, though I must admit I can’t imagine why (then again I’m not known for my discerning taste in high fashion) the least expensive (you’ll notice I didn’t say cheapest) pair sold for $220 (how very reasonable). There were metal, 3-D, aviator, polarized, wrap, oversized, Gucci eye web and plastic. I decided to take a peek at Armani just for the sake of comparison. I jumped on the specific website for Armani and I got this jazzy music with some indistinguishable “singing” going on. Possibly I was doing something wrong but all I got was two alternating pictures of models wearing sunglasses. That’s it. Same sunglasses, same models.
I paid a total of $365 once for a pair of prescription sunglasses that were purple mirrored… My dog ate them.
