Rayban is a high end manufacturer of eyewear and may be the best-selling sunglasses brand worldwide. The history of the brand goes way back to the 30s and it’s connected with the US Army Air Corps, as the first pair of sunglasses was created to prevent eye damage from the sun for the airmen. Since then, the Ray-ban frames and lenses have widely diversified and have grown in popularity among civilians as well.
Moreover, celebrities have gone crazy about them and started wearing them at every public appearance. The 90s brought about a small setback though, when wraparound frames gained a lot of popularity, especially among women. But the redesign of 2001 in their most famous model, the Wayfarer, put them back on top again. The media coverage is impressive. The cute, little writing on the side of the sunglasses’ arms makes quite an impression. Wayfarers have been proudly worn by actors and singers, starting with Michael Jackson and ending with the famous character of Edward Cullen, from the Twilight Saga.
Hereinafter, you can find out the most famous appearances of the Ray Ban sunglasses in Hollywood movies. They have certainly contributed to the personality of the characters that wore the sunglasses and, more often than not, left a memorable visual in the minds of the beholders. A sure name on the list would be Ridley Scott’s “Body of lies”, where Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, a CIA agent, is wearing two of the Rayban models in several scenes, and were even used for the poster image. As mentionable is the film “Daredevil”, starring Ben Affleck, whose character is wearing Ray-ban Predator Olympia with custom red lenses throughout the entire movie. Oh, and let’s not forget the blockbuster from 2008, “The dark knight”. If Batman wears Ray-bans, who wouldn’t want to?!
The list is long and, although we’re not going to go through the nearly a hundred movies that showed the sunglasses, I am going to make a few more important stops, the first of which is Brad Pitt. The overly publicized icon wore Aviators from the famous brand in “The curious case of Benjamin Button”, which perfectly completed the character’s look. Further down, we have the noteworthy classics like Will Smith in “Men in Black”, Clint Eastwood in “Dirty Harry”, Tom Cruise in “Risky business” or the ones that started it all in 1980, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in the timeless “The Blues Brothers”, wearing the Wayfarers. Also, as a statement to the contemporary American pop culture, Robert Pattinson wears Ray-ban Wayfarers in his performance as vampire in the “Twilight” saga.
Their models and designs have set trends that many others have tried to follow, but for a connoisseur the difference is visible. For instance, many claim that iconic figure Audrey Hepburn wore Ray Ban sunglasses in the notorious “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, but in reality the model belonged to designer Oliver Goldsmith and was called Manhattan. The controversial John F. Kennedy was thought to have worn Wayfarers, though no one could ever be sure, and so were Bob Dylan or Andy Warhol. Regardless of whether they were in fact Raybans or not, the designs were definitely set forth by the famous brand.