Oct

17

The Many Eyes of Paris Hilton

Filed Under Blogroll, Celebrity Watch, Designer Sunglasses 


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Paris Hilton’s wardrobe is a like a bizarre fantasy for most girls who idolize the heiresses ability to appear beautiful, classy and stylish 24 hours a day. Her shoe and purse collections alone could rival the most elaborate of female fantasies, yet her sunglasses collection is perhaps the most prominent of her wardrobe’s assets. I imagine a giant walk-in closet full of bodiless mannequins sporting sunglasses of every style and shape, with row after row of plastic heads with colorful shades.


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Her collection has several defining characteristics. The majority of her shades are large and cover most of her upper face. They are also usually bright and bold in color and design. Quite possibly stating the obvious, her collection only contains the mot notoriously classy of fashion label shades, including Bvlgari, Versace, Ray Ban, Prada, D&G, Dior and more. She pays special attention to the latest trends and then confronts them head-on with her own flamboyant twist.


Hilton’s facial shape is drastically square. Her appearance could be quite rugged and haggard if she did not spend such a great amount of time and effort combating the squareness of her face. She does so in several ways. Firstly, she wears her hair full of volume or else wears rounded caps, which both act to conflict with her square jaw.  Secondly, she wears large sunglasses that giver her face something to contrast the jaw line, but also serve top give her an almost cartoon-like innocence.


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Though some may label her a dumb blond, or the but of her own joke, I have a great amount of respect for Paris Hilton, who is a self made woman. Though born an heiress (her father owns the hotel Chain with bearing the family name) Paris has created an image around herself that has drawn in Hollywood as well as the fashion world. She plashed onto the scene in style, but was largely ignored in favor of the more drunken and scantly clad of Hollywood’s finest. Nothing sells a tabloid like a scandal, or a beautiful woman misbehaving and avoiding all consequences. Learning from this, Hilton began exposing herself in public, acting drunk and playing the roll of the ditsy teenage troublemaker.


She emerged full-throttle in her self-made roll in the series The Simple Life. Though some of her act can be attributed to a sheltered life of high society, it is more notable that she managed to sign a deal for a multi-season show that aired around prime time. Moving on, she penned a book, has modeled and made a cameo in Hollywood films, and recently campaigned against John McCain after the candidate released an ad with her in one of the snippets. Her response was to release her own political commercial (online). She appeared in a bikini sunbathing while she delivered her own campaign speech. Not surprisingly, her political ideas were quite advanced, and showed a side of Hilton she had so far managed to hide from the public, an entrepreneurial and political, highly confident and capable woman.


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Whatever your opinion of the woman, you have to admit that behind her Prada shades, she hides an intelligence apt enough to earn her a fortune of her very own, and one she achieved will looking gorgeous, stylish and playing the final joke on the tabloids themselves- manipulating their headlines from drunken heiress to political entrepreneur.

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