I f you’re wondering how best to 2025-ify your look, the most zeitgeisty purchase you can make right now isn’t clothes or shoes but a pair of glasses — aviators, to be precise. Two of the year’s biggest names were out in them last week: the first lady Melania Trump, 54, in Terminator 2 -style mirror shades, and 62-year-old Demi Moore — a best actress winner at the Golden Globes this month — was snapped in the chunky-framed and clear-lensed prescription variety. In the 20th century aviators were the preserve of military-ish men with a bad-boy image to curate, from Tom Cruise and Robert Redford to Freddie Mercury.
In the 21st — after Gloria Steinem blazed a trail with hers, perhaps, not to mention Gwyneth Paltrow’s 2023 courtroom pair — they are increasingly popular not simply as sunglasses but as workaday specs among women who want to look like they mean business..
