Por que as pessoas gastam tanto dinheiro com óculos escuros? O jornalista Simon Mills, do The Guardian, responde a esta pergunta com um artigo excelente. Vale a pena ler!
“Bono has a party trick. When anyone asks the U2 singer why he insists on always wearing his signature, blue-tinged sunglasses (you know, the wraparound Chanel jobs permanently clamped on to his front-of-house, the ones that replaced the Cutler and Gross “fly’s eyes” model he wore circa Achtung Baby) he will explain, with refreshing honesty, that his shades actually provide a kind of instant stellar petrification. That without them on, he just looks like an ordinary little Irish man. “Look,” he will say lifting them on and off, up and down, like Eric Morecambe used to do, “rock star with them on … ordinary bloke without them. Rock star/ordinary bloke, rock star/ordinary bloke … ”
Truth is, we are all a little bit Bono in the face furniture department these days. Look around you and you will see (as long as the tint on your Persols isn’t too dark, mind) that wearing sunglasses all year round, summer and winter, sunshine and rain, inside and outside, on your face or even on top of your head, is not quite the gauche, self-regarding faux pas it used to be….”
PS- A frase do título, “The Future’s so Bright I Gotta Wear Shades”, é de um antigo hit do grupo Timbuk 3, famoso na segunda metade dos anos 80. Veja o clipe e note que a integrante Barbara K. aparece usando um Ray-Ban Wayfarer, modelo tido como o óculos de sol mais vendido até hoje. Ele já recebeu o aval de Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak e Audrey Hepburn, que aparece usando um em “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961). Mais recentemente foi Tom Cruise, em “Risky Business”(1983), quem reacendeu a febre mundial. E pode apostar, o Ray-Ban Wayfarer está de volta!