Culture lunettes
Actors, designers, comedians and writers whose take on glasses has changed how we see specs… and even life.
“ Sunglasses are like eyeshadow; they make everything look younger and prettier. ”
Karl Lagerfeld
“ My glasses say
a lot about me.”
Victoria Beckham
“ Qui aime bien ses lunettes
ménage sa monture. ”
Francis Blanche
“ I feel completely naked when I haven’t got my sunglasses. ”
Emmanuelle Béart
“ I guess you could say I live in a fairytale, looking at everything through rose-coloured glasses ”
Sharon Tate
“ Glasses hide a lot of things – even a tear in the eye. ”
Sören Kierkegaard
“ We all have our spectacles, but no one can tell to a shade the colour of the glass. ”
Alfred de Musset
“ I’m blind without
my glasses. ”
Adam Ant
“ I wear my wife’s eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way. ”
Jayson Feinburg
“ People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me. ”
Inès De La Fressange
“ Beware of overexertion, especially when you aren’t looking at anything – remember to take your glasses off! ”
Coluche
“ If I wear dark glasses on stage, it’s not about acting like an old rock ‘n’ roller. It’s because I don’t want to be distracted by everything going on around me. Without them, I feel like I’m naked in the middle of the supermarket with mirrors on the ceiling. ”
Alain Bashung
“ More often than not, we search for happiness like we search for our glasses, when they’re on our nose. ”
André Maurois
“ A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised. ”
Fred Allen
“ The problem with losing your glasses is that you have to find them in order to look for them again. ”
Gustave Parking
“ Can the malaise of the human condition be reversed by Persol glasses? ”
Lord Esperanza
“ Nowadays, when you are known, the simple fact of walking in public without dark glasses is almost indecent exposure. ”
Philippe Bouvard
“ Life gives you signs every day; if you can’t see them, you might want to wear glasses. ”
Pascale Dercourt
“ I’m so shy now, I wear sunglasses everywhere I go. ”
Al Pacino
“ Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on. ”
Bob Dylan
“ If your eyes are bigger than your stomach, you’ll struggle to find a pair of glasses. ”
Pierre Dac
“ By only ever discerning the new through glasses from the past, our outlook gets distorted. ”
Jacques Séguéla
“ With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I am I’m fat and 60. ”
Jack Nicholson
