President Emmanuel Macron made a somewhat daring accessory selection at Davos this week after wearing Top-Gun style sunglasses.
But the chance seems to have paid off. Reasonably than the web specializing in among the complex geopolitical crises of our time, people’s attentions have turned to the French president’s daring recent look.
And now, sales of the sunglasses – made and acquired at Maison Henry Jullien – have shot up. A lot so, the web site to purchase them crashed.
Macron first bought a pair of the Pacific S 01 Double Gold sunglasses, value €659, for the G20 summit in 2024.
Stefano Fulchir, the president of iVision Tech who owns Henry Julien, told The Guardian: ‘My first response may be summed up in three letters: wow! It has not been a typical day. I feel very honoured that the president is wearing our glasses.
‘I said I can be blissful to send him a pair but they said no. He didn’t accept them as a present, but desired to purchase them personally.
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‘The French president paid numerous attention as to whether the glasses were entirely made in France.’
Only 10 people work on the factory where the sunglasses are produced, and are hand assembled using what iVision calls an ‘ancient technique’.
But sadly there is no such thing as a distributor within the UK making them unavailable to purchase.
Why was Macron wearing sunglasses?
The explanation why Macron wore the glasses is, nonetheless, lower than glamorous.
He was hiding a burst blood vessel in his right eye, something which he described as ‘totally benign’.
But despite the marginally silly take a look at Davos, there was little question how serious he was a few future where ‘international law is trampled underfoot, and where the one law that seems to matter is that of the strongest’.
Though he didn’t mention Donald Trump by name, Macron attacked ‘imperial ambitions’ that he said were resurfacing and told attendees he prefers ‘respect to bullies’.
Referencing the US President’s recent threats over Greenland, he condemned ‘an countless accumulation of latest tariffs which can be fundamentally unacceptable – much more so once they are used as leverage against territorial sovereignty’.
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