Gucci is selling upside-down glasses for £470 and people are confused

Metro (U.K.) ^ | Sunday 13 Dec 2020 | Laura Abernethy

[ArcadeQuarters]

Fashion reminds me that there are a lot of idiots in the world who somehow have more money than I do. Must be inheritance.

[lee martell]

It literally appears as though one is wearing their big, wing tipped, Cat Eye glasses upside down. There is nothing
elegant or nifty about it. It looks like something a comedian would wear during a performance. Designed to produce stares and a flurry of confused giggles.

[angmo]

They laughed at the Opti-grab too!

[null and void]

[Fester Chugabrew]

Might look fine on Elton John. He could purchase one pair and the expense/profit would be covered.

[timestax]

bttt

[dayglored]

That may well be the stupidest thing I've seen all year.

And I've seen some pretty stupid things this past year.

[Slyfox]

I think they are very gucky.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

You can always find a market in stupid people with too much money - usually the wives and adult children of men who earned it.

[Viking2002]

Retarded is the word that comes to mind.

[DannyTN]

Doesn’t your nose get in the way when you try to drink out of it?

[GraceG]

Glasses for aliens:

[GraceG]

[ You can always find a market in stupid people with too much money - usually the wives and adult children of men who earned it. ]

No truer statement has ever been made than this!

[null and void]

That may well be the stupidest thing I've seen all year.

And I've seen some pretty stupid things this past year.

Chin up.

The year isn't over...

[Veggie Todd]

What a stupid idea to try to create a fad. Me, my pet rock, and lava lamp are laughing.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

You’ve got to be kidding me. They picked one of the most unattractive women around to were these stupid things.

I guess they think the rich white elite are too stupid to realize that they are being taken to the tune of several hundreds pounds.

Gucci’s new sales slogan: “Gucci, Gucci, Gotcha”

[Atticus]

Gucci is mocking people with those upside down spectacles, the plain Jane model, and whatever the heck clothes she’s wearing.

[Moltke]

Not the kind of thing you’d wear to a job interview.

[TalBlack]

There is no intelligence in the design. It’s just a childish flipping of the frames. Bomb.

The original cats eye frames were high fashion in the 40s and gained broad popularity in the 50s. They became the eyewear of old ladies and nerds in the 60s...and then started showing up on Madonna types in the 80s as some kind of retro avant-garde thing. They’ve never really gone away. They have new versions out now excluding this ideocy.