In A View to a Kill 007 wears a pair of oversized Aviator-style ski glasses while on a mission in Siberia to recover a microchip. Roger MooreĪlthough Roger Moore remains the actor with the most Bond films to his name, it wasn’t until his seventh and final outing as 007 that he got to wear any kind of eyewear. The best shot of these glasses is after he has thrown them onto the passenger seat at 1m 10s, but it is too dark to see them clearly enough to identify. Mostly the camera is located behind him and initially Lazenby’s eyes are not seen at all. In fact you barely see them as Bond’s face is barely seen in these opening shots. While the increase in contrast gives the impression night vision is improved, the opposite is actually true. These days the consensus is that they should be avoided. This type of glasses are designed to improve the driver’s vision at night by reducing glare and increasing contrast. They seem to be larger than Ray-Bans and a different shape but there is no close-up to aid further identification. As he peels himself away from the back of a guided tour, Bond approaches the camera wearing what look like tortoiseshell sunglasses with brown lenses. After he finds Tania in his hotel bed, Bond arranges to meet her the following day and tails her into a mosque to ensure she isn’t being followed. TOM FORD, PRESIDENT OF THE EPONYMOUS BRAND, HAS COMMENTED: I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER TO BE DRESSING DANIEL CRAIG AS. The aviator-style sunglasses feature a prominent brow bar to accentuate the glam factor. In Skyfall, 007 was seen flaunting a pair of Tom Ford Marko (FT0144) sunglasses in numerous scenes. The first occasion we find James Bond wearing sunglasses is in From Russia With Love. TOM FORD SUNGLASSES ARE HANDMADE IN ITALY. Despite the controversy, Tom Ford’s sunglasses made their way into the subsequent installments of the Bond franchise, Skyfall and Spectre. Despite the glare of the Jamaican sun, 007 does without sunglasses though. Jack Lord, who played Felix Leiter in Dr No, looked super cool with his sharp sixties suit and eyes barely hidden by pale lenses. The first sunglasses to appear in a James Bond film weren’t actually worn by 007, but worn by one of his allies instead.
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The driver behind this is the growth in luxury eyewear since the 1990s, which exploded in the early part of the 21st century.
Since then, James Bond has worn sunglasses in every film. And then nothing until Pierce Brosnan’s third film, The World Is Not Enough. And Roger Moore only used eyewear in his last Bond film. George Lazenby briefly sported a pair of driving glasses. Sean Connery wore sunglasses just twice in his six Eon movies. Probably the only time James Bond wears sunglasses is in the short story The Property of a Lady. While Ian Fleming told us 007’s preferred brands of watch, lighter, cigarettes and even shampoo, we will never know his preferred sunglasses.
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And even in the film series it was only recently when Bond began to wear sunglasses regularly. Sunglasses barely feature in Ian Fleming’s books at all.
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