Monday, February 28, 2005

Counting Crows band members Ben Mize, David Immergluck, Jim Bogios, Dan Vickrey and Adam Duritz (L-R) arrive at the 77th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood February 27, 2005. The Counting Crows were nominated for an Academy Award for achievement in music (original song), for their song 'Accidentally in Love' from the movie 'Shrek 2.' REUTERS/Mike Blake. Duritz is wearing Valentino shades from The Soltice Sunglass Boutique at the mediaplacement Oscar Luxury Lounge at the Peninsula Hotel.

Future’s So Bright…They Gotta Wear Shades


The Solstice Sunglass Boutique at the mediaplacement Oscar Luxury Lounge at The Peninsula Hotel was popular with celebrities. Sunshades and celebrities are synonymous!

Here’s who chose what:

Adrian Brody
selected red Marc Jacobs metal aviators

Kiera Knightley and Natalie Cole selected oversized tortoise sunglasses with gold temples from Marc Jacobs

Desperate Housewives’ Nicolette Sheridan
selected rectangular shaped Jackie O Gucci sunglasses with a red front and white temples

Natalie Cole
selected the same pair as Sheridan with a black front and white temples

Desperate Housewives’ Marcia Cross
selected YSL plastic wrap-around sunglasses in tortoise with a brown gradient lens and a pair of YSL rimless aviators with a burgundy gradient lens

Adam Duritz
of Counting Crows (seen above) selected a tortoise plastic aviator with silver metal overlay from Valentino (he's wearing them in the photo above, on the red carpet)

Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber
selected Dior Homme brown metal aviators

Radha Mitchell
selected black plastic sunglasses with black gradient lenses from Burberry

Ray's Kerry Washington
selected a Marc Jacobs gold metal aviator

Entourage's Kevin Dillon
selected a pair of Gucci sunglasses

Meet the Fockers' Teri Polo
selected YSL rimless aviators with a brown gradient lens

Entourage's Adrian Grenier
selected Dior Homme brown metal aviators (the same pair as Andrew Lloyd Weber)

Cheryl Hines
selected pink plastic Marc Jacobs sunglasses with gold temples

Penny Marshall
selected small rimless Giorgio Armani aviators in brown

Entourage's Debi Mazur
picked Ralph Lauren Jackie O sunglasses in grape with a mauve gradient lens

Destiny's Child's Kelly Rowland
selected a gray Dior shield with crystal hearts on the temples (the "Dior Heart Core")