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Ray-Ban may have the Wayfarer, Clubmaster, and the Aviator, but there's no sunglass kind that's had more style icons define more shades over the years than Persol. Whether it's the 649's worn by Marcello Mastroeni in Divorce, Italian Style (also favored by Steve McQueen and now Jay–Z), the 6201's that serve as Will.I.Am's eyeglass frames, or just Jack's beefy tortoiseshells, Persols rarely miss a cane. And now that the same company owns Ray-Ban and Persol, there's a huge amount of nostalgia for the time they were "Made In Italy" by Ratti.
Don't credit us? Just ask the vintage gurus at New York's Silver Lining Opticians, where Kanye West, Jay-Z, Dustin Hoffman, Daniel Day Lewis, and YSL's Stefano Pilati all buy their shades. "The quality and craftmanship remain unmatched by today's factories," says co-owner Jordan Silver. The quality is so good that he and partner Erik Sacher just made one of their biggest buys to date, totaling some fifty pairs of "unused perfect condition pre-Luxottica Persols" from a seller in Italy. "I love this purchase because they came with a posy of original stickers and hangtags in Italian." So do we:
...For the first time since he sat down, Maccabee takes his sunglasses off and put them on the table. His stare is piercing and cool. “Even talking to you now…I do it because, you know what? Say something about it. Let people hear it. Maybe someone will be influenced by it. Maybe someone will say, ‘You know what? It’s true. There aren’t a lot of men walking these days, but a lot males.’ When I went to the army, I already walked in as Rambo.”
Since taking his sunglasses off Ben Maccabee hasn’t blinked once.
A Walk to Remember
Walking is a natural part of life, for those fortunate to do it every day. Ben Maccabee doesn’t think like that. For Ben, his walk is as much a part of his acting as reading lines.
“I walk a certain way.” He crosses his legs, revealing his thick cowboy boots They’re
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The officer spotted a man matching the description at the intersection of Hibiscus Avenue and Worth Avenue. The suspect told the officer he'd just come from the shop that reported the theft. He was wearing a pair of Persol sunglasses, |
This is not hyperbole; the man in question has been a permanent fixture on the "Most Eligible" and "Most Stylish" lists of the Western world's glossiest magazines for the past two decades. There are many ways of phrasing the next sentence,
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Posted on 5:30 pm Tuesday May 15, 2012 Give the man some wooden pins, a few pairs of sunglasses, and the right lighting, and you won't rely upon what Swedish photographer Philip Karlberg is capable of. “A couple of months ago I came up with an idea I |
