These Purple Tom Ford Sunglasses Have Changed Me
I’m a warrior now. My warrior name is “Dark Lilac.”
I don’t remember how the Tom Ford sunglasses came into my possession. I know I didn’t buy them new. If my vague memory serves, one day I threw up my hands trying to figure out what to do with some credits I had on ThredUP or Poshmark — and because I had gained so much weight and really didn’t know my size anymore — I decided I was, in fact, a person who wore purple Tom Ford sunglasses.
Excuse me, not purple, but Dark Lilac. Some genius at Tom Ford who should probably be in charge of a lot more than coming up with sunglasses colors, decided that these glasses were not purple, but “dark lilac,” giving poets a run for their money. It’s the name of a superhero, a woman with superpowers.
And when I put these babies on I am indeed a warrior. I’m Dark Lilac. Don’t come for me.
Like any proper superhero story, it wasn’t always this way. For 99.99% of my life, I wasn’t someone who wore purple sunglasses, or Tom Ford sunglasses or any combination thereof. I was someone who wore basic tortoise shell sunglasses in an ill-fated attempt to maintain a classic style, to keep my wardrobe in a neatly rotating cycle of navy, brown, grey, white and black so I didn’t have to think about it, and because I have no…
