{"id":142,"date":"2007-09-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2019-06-14T01:15:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T05:15:54","slug":"great-minds-think-alike-about-80s-sunglasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/great-minds-think-alike-about-80s-sunglasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Minds Think Alike &#8230; About &#8217;80s Sunglasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">In case you didn&#8217;t believe that Kanye West&#8217;s Venetian-blind sunglasses are based on an &#8217;80s design, I present a blurry screen cap from Animotion&#8217;s amazing 1985 video for &#8220;Obsession.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure what kind of drugs everyone was on when this video was shot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a0VpXkVD6Lg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/RunPHYYqC0I\/AAAAAAAAAjM\/-pZSEfzmgKk\/s320\/animotion+cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109842977940441922\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">To see the whole video, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a0VpXkVD6Lg\">here<\/a><br \/>Glasses appear at about 2:50. <\/p>\n<p>Now we have Kanye West in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikli.com\/\">Alain Mikli<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fashreport.com\/fash_report\/2007\/08\/the-grill-glass.html\">Venetian-blind glasses<\/a> in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><center><a id='MXxZNL7wSbFPpbXEn_mIsA' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/79825476' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'MXxZNL7wSbFPpbXEn_mIsA',sig:'OScXdfZO9I5CfmUWblK4dhN8U69xynKHQ20r7ydS6J8=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'79825476',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Some people have been reporting that Kanye&#8217;s sunglasses are by Jeremy Scott, but I&#8217;m going with Alain Mikli. People.com <a href=\"http:\/\/offtherack.people.com\/2007\/07\/05\/the-scoop-on-kanye-wests-funky-sunglasses\/\">has a statement<\/a> from a Mikli manager.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you didn&#8217;t believe that Kanye West&#8217;s Venetian-blind sunglasses are based on an &#8217;80s design, I present a blurry screen cap from Animotion&#8217;s amazing 1985 video for &#8220;Obsession.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure what kind of drugs everyone was on when this video was shot. To see the whole video, click hereGlasses appear at about 2:50&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/great-minds-think-alike-about-80s-sunglasses\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-great-minds-think-alike","7":"category-sunglasses","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43019,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/43019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}