With Joker: Folie à Deux lastly hitting theaters this Friday, Joaquin Phoenix has been dressing his socks off on the press tour.
Final night time, the Oscar winner hit Los Angeles for the red-carpet premiere of his subsequent huge blockbuster. And whilst you may’ve simply centered on the traditional swimsuit and the just-messy-enough hair, religious model spotters had been taken by one thing else: his sun shades.
From Saint Laurent‘s SL 375 to Tom Ford’s Jack, Phoenix has lengthy been a saint of excellent sun shades. However for the Joker press path, he pulled out a pair from Cali-based eyewear label Garrett Leight. This explicit mannequin is the Ace Solar.
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This silhouette encompasses a Wayfarer design and is produced from cellulose acetate, a hard-wearing materials that refines cotton or wooden pulp. Shiny metallic palm leaves are hooked up to the corners, and it is fitted with a pair of rose-colored lenses. It is a stone-cold traditional, and higher but, it is really not that dear—particularly while you evaluate it to the shades that a number of different very well-known dudes put on (a pair of culty Jacques Marie Mage frames can value upwards of $800).
Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jeremy Allen White are all proud homeowners of Garrett Leight frames. However none of them are fairly as huge a fan as Phoenix, who’s been repping ’em for 5 years straight. On the 2019 Venice Movie Competition, he additionally pulled up within the Ace—that point in a black-on-black colorway.
If you happen to’re trying to see the world the best way Phoenix does, you are in luck: his actual Garrett Leight shades are nonetheless in inventory for $385.
This story initially appeared on British GQ.
