Limited Edition Sunglasses and Shakespeare
August 15, 2009 by Kelli DesRochers
Filed under Accessories
Every summer over 100,000 theater-lovers travel to New York’s Central Park to experience the annual Shakespeare in the Park event. This year luxury sunglasses boutique ILORI selected designers Thakoon and Thierry Lasry to create extremely limited edition sunglasses collections to pair with the two plays that are featured. It’s a fun idea to pair an outdoor theater event with sunglasses inspired by the plays!
Twelfth Night, the first play in the festival, ran from June 10th to July 12th and was paired with Thakoon’s “Viola” line, which was named for the character in the play. As a tribute to the number twelve, there were only twelve pairs produced of each of three color combinations of the Viola line. Talk about limited edition…this is as exclusive as it gets!
Thierry Lasry Agavy in Blue $365
The second play this year is The Bacchae, which is paired with another limited edition sunglasses release. The play opened on August 11th and is running until September 6th. Theirry Lasry designed a line of chunky and colorful plastic aviators that were inspired by the strong and daring character Agave. The color combinations and thickness of the frames create a fun and hip look that would be so great to wear to watch the play! Again, only twelve pairs in each color combination will be produced in the “Agavy” line, so you better get yours quick.
Thierry Lasry Agavy in Vintage $365
Lasry wanted to include specific elements from “Shakespeare in the Park” into his purposeful selections for three three color options of Blue, Green, and Vintage: “Blue, reminiscent of the summer blue sky where Shakespeare in the Park is taking place; green for the green of Central Park, and the third edition [Vintage] is using a very old vintage acetate from the 80’s reminiscent of the mythological aspect of the play.”
To get your hands on one of these super limited edition Shakespeare in the Park sunglasses, you have to make your way to the ILORI Boutique in Soho where they are exclusively being sold. To find out more about attending The Bacchae, please visit Public Theater’s website.
