Jack Nicholson Stomped On The Laws Of Sunglasses
msn.comStyle Archive: a series in which we celebrate the stars of the past that made menswear what it is today. This week: the flagrant disregard of eyewear etiquette from Jack Nicholson. 'Sunglasses At Night', a little-known 1984 single from one-hit blunder Corey Hart, hasn't aged well.
One shouldn't wear their sunglasses at night. Or anywhere dark. Nor should music videos, as Hart's bizarrely does, depict the Western world as a futuristic dystopia in which anyone sans shades enjoys incarceration by decree of a Linda Farrow-esque monocrat.
Look, the Eighties saw a lot of cocaine. © Ron Galella Jack Nicholson at the Carlyle Hotel, New York (1985) Jack Nicholson wouldn't fall foul of such an authoritarian world, though.
And to him, all the rules regarding sunglasses - whether fictional or otherwise - are to be broken. For the Oscar-winner has stoked an ever-blazing bonfire of deregulation since the late Seventies; a stylish iconoclast that, arguably, has made his big transgression his Big Thing.
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