Jewellery by Wendy Ramshaw and David Watkins RIP, glasses, Oliver Goldsmith Eyewear, 1967, England. Koko, sunglasses, Oliver Goldsmith Eyewear, about 1960, England. Oliver Goldsmith courted publicity by creating deliberately more unusual frames, but the firm could also design for the mass market: its chunky RIP frame became one of the decade's bestselling looks.įuz, sunglasses, Oliver Goldsmith Eyewear, 1964, England.
What changed in the following decade was how big and bold frames became – Oliver Goldsmith's 'TV set' and 'giant O' designs were a memorable expression of the 1960s' love affair with exaggerated Modernism. At the beginning of the 1960s, the popularity of stand-out eyewear was well established, having been influenced by the glamour of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and other Hollywood stars wearing 'shades'. They supplied eyewear to most of the decade's cultural icons, including Audrey Hepburn, Michael Caine, Jackie Onassis and Peter Sellars their sunglasses were also the first to appear in the pages of Vogue. Leading eyewear company Oliver Goldsmith was one of the first to recognise the fashion potential of glasses and sunglasses. Glasses and sunglasses by Oliver Goldsmith
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