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Leon Trotsky: Style Icon
Yes, the “style icon” label for Leon Trotsky is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. He would almost certainly reject such a bourgeois capitalist pursuit as fashion. Even so, the style of glasses most associated with him is worn by undergraduate wannabe-intellectuals everywhere (and you have to admit, they do lend a certain scholarly air to his appearance).
The vintage fashion world is sometimes over-focused on mid-century styles, especially the 1950′s and 1960′s (fanned, of course, by Mad Men). We’re much less nostalgic, it seems, for earlier in the century (and with two world wars, who can blame us). But those decades were full of interesting sartorial choices. Let’s have a look at another pair of round glasses, here worn by Sigmund Freud:
Freud's round glasses
And, of course, William Butler Yeats
(he of “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity”)
Yeats also favours round spectacles.
All giants among men, all historically/artistically influential. Something about these frames points to an inner greatness. I think this is the look Harry Potter was going for.
