If any designer was going to come up with a pair of luxe tanning goggles (themselves something of a relic from the days when giving yourself skin cancer was considered fashionable), it would be perma-tanned luxury maestro Tom Ford. In its customary bad English, the Colette website explains: "Hearing his friends complain of the lack of esthetism [sic] of the traditional anti-uv glasses, Tom ford has [sic] the idea to create new models up to theirs [sic] expectations; beautiful, light, functional and declined [sic] in two colours."Um, yes, but there's no escaping the fact that real tanning (at least to the extent where you cover yourself in oil and don a pair of these) is now deeply unfashionable, the preserve solely of the sort of orange people the fashion pack love to sneer at. These goggles just remind us of a photograph of a Brisith tourist in Spain by our favourite (non fashion) photographer, Martin Parr, who is famed for his humourous, colourful, yet very 'revealing,' photos of ordinary people in mundane settings:
Tom Ford tanning goggles, available for €227 from Colette.
Oh.. I think this guy can make people wear toilet paper necklaces! But that doesn't necessarily makes them any special! Par rapport, Marc Jacobs makes sand castles..
ReplyDeleteHe really is too ostentatious. Parading today's faux values doesn't make him a true value, does it?