Yacht Rock | Marilyn Steams Up Tony's Glasses

Osgood and Sugar work through his issues in Some Like It Hot

Tony Curtis

Awwwww | Eyeglass Cleaning Bear

How to Dress | Life Lessons with Rupert Holmes

Advice from Beauty Headquarters | Eyewear Tips of 1940

In Search of the Miraculous | Ouspensky Cinema Saddle Bridge

Ugly Beauty | Monk in a Mood

Elvis Versus Elvis | 1977

I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea, Elvis Costello, 1977



Moody Blue, Elvis Presley, 1977

Gods and Monsters | Truman Capote

"I can see every monster as they come in." - Truman Capote

Under Pressure | Alain Delon

Good Ol' Boys | Roger Moore and Cary Grant

Just Good Friends | Catherine & Yves

Catherine Denueve and Yves Saint Laurent

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt | Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

HDV Likes : MISAKO & ROSEN

misako & rosen

Clark Gable and his Chinese Girlfriend | HK 1954

Trust Clark Gable to find a stunner even in far-away Hong Kong. That girl behind the Hollywood-like dark glasses is Li Li-hwa, top glamour girl of the Chinese movie world. The stars took a cruise together around Hong Kong island, where Gable is starring in "Soldier of Fortune".

— Associated Press, December 3, 1954

More Pics and Full Story at Soft Film

Hit Me with a Flower | Vicious Lou in Paris '74

Vicious
You hit me with a flower
You do it every hour
Ohh, baby you're so vicious

Vicious
You want me to hit you with a stick
But all I've got's a guitar pick
Huh... baby you're so vicious

When I watch you come
I just want to run far away
You're not the kind of person
Around whom I want to stay

When I see you comin' down the street
I step on your hands and I mangle your feet
You're not the kind of person that I wanna meet
Oh, baby, you're so vicious

Vicious
You hit me with a flower
You do it every hour
Ohh, baby you're so vicious

Vicious
Hey, why don't you swallow razor blades
You must think I'm some kinda gay blade
But baby, you're so vicious
When I watch you comin'
I just have to run
You're not good and you certainly aren't very much fun
When I see you walkin' down the street
I step on your hand and I mangle your feet
You're not the kind of person that I even wanna meet
'Cause you're so vicious

-Vicious, Transformer , Lou Reed

Eyewear of the FBI's Most Wanted List

The HDV Guide to Paul Sapiano

Director Paul Sapiano in his Hotel De Ville Vintage Frames

Paul Sapiano is a Hollywood based writer director, best known as creator of the “Boys and Girls Guide” franchise, a multiplatform, politically incorrect comedy franchise spanning movies, TV and literature.

Born in the UK, Paul moved to LA in 1996, at the age of 22 where he worked as a production assistant on numerous commercial shoots. He was soon able to create his own showreel of spec comedy work which lead to an illustrious and award winning career as a comedy commercials director.

From here it was a short step to writing screenplays, and with the release of his 2007 cult hit, “The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down”, and the slew of accompanying festival awards the film garnered, Hollywood’s doors were opened to him. Most recently he was the Exec Producer of the pilot called “The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down” produced by Comedy Central.

Paul’s home base in Hollywood is the esteemed digital effects shop HenryLA, which also houses Big Primpin Films, (production arm of the “Boys and Girls Guide”), and the company producing
“Hollywood Sex Wars”.

We See You! Willow Smith in Hotel De Ville

Willow Smith with her vintage Hotel De Ville frames in London.

Sunvogues VS Cornelius | 1969

FOLLOW THE SUN WITH FASHION & QUALITY

Some people make a habit of the sun. Going where the fun is.

On magic islands Columbus named, and never saw again. To sunny ports whose streets once heard the clash of Spanish swords. In lands of ancient castles where fabled kings still sleep.

No doubt about it, fun and sun and romantic places go together. But no matter who you are or what you do, one thing is certain. Wherever the sun shines, people need sunglasses. And, where the sun is, SUNVOGUES are.

Style? SUNVOGUES have something for everyone. Working girls who yearn for glamor. Glamor girls who yearn for more. Jet pilots racing the sun. Truck drivers facing it.

Quality? Who could ask for more than optically ground lenses, polished to prescription precision. Designed to absorb potentially harmful ultraviolet and infrared rays.

Fit? From bridge styles to eyeshapes to temples. SUNVOGUES are thoughtfully designed, methodically engineered to assure hour after hour of relaxed wearing comfort.

SUNVOGUES ... the sunniest, happiest thing that ever happened to sunglass wearers.

From American Optical.

-American Optical Sunvogues Catalogue, 1969.

Sunvogues Daring Woman VS David Bowie | Janine

FOR THE WOMAN WHO DARES TO BE DIFFERENT ... AND THOSE WHO ARE THINKING ABOUT IT

Go ahead, sun followers! Live it up ... with two new high-fashion lens shades in four frame colors. For the unusual woman who dares to stand out from the crowd.

-American Optical Sunvogues Catalogue, 1969




You're fey, Janine
A tripper to the last
But if I catch you standing on my toes
I'll have a right to shout you down
For you're a lazy stream
In which my thoughts would drown

So stay, Janine
And we can glide along
I've caught your wings for laughs
I'm not obliged to read you statements of the year
So take your glasses off
And don't act so sincere

Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well
But I've got things inside my head
That even I can't face

Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash
my walls
But if you take an axe to me
You'll kill another man
Not me at all

-Janine, Space Oddity, David Bowie (1969)

Sunvogues + The Velvet Underground = Pale Blue Eyes Need UV Protection

Back cover of American Optical Sunvogues Catalogue, 1969.