[Dan Middleton]

"Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, took the stage at a hip Manhattan art space before a crowd of twenty- and thirty-somethings, many shaggy-haired and wearing T-shirts and glasses."

Can someone please explain to me why it was relevant they were wearing glasses?

[aruanan]

Can someone please explain to me why it was relevant they were wearing glasses?

Because just as they are retro on computer music, they're retro on eyeware, eschewing the higher-tech approach of contact lenses or corneal laser sculpting (of course, they're all too young for corneal laser sculpting).