What do Brad Pitt, Tyler Durden, and the movie Fight Club have in common? Well, obviously they are all based on the popular book by the incomparable Chuck Palahniuk, but that is not what springs to mind initially. An image pops into mind of Tyler Durden and the now-famous Tyler Durden sunglasses. First worn by Brad Pitt in the 1999 movie Fight Club as the fictional character Tyler Durden, these sunglasses with the blood red lenses leapt to popularity overnight. Everyone wanted a pair of the Tyler Durden sunglasses.
Designer Oliver Peoples marketed these unique sunglasses, and they have since become the most sought after sunglasses on the market. Extremely rare, the Tyler Durden sunglasses can now only be found on auction sites, if you are lucky enough. The OP 523 were the style of the Tyler Durden sunglasses worn in the movie, and they were snatched up like magic as soon as they were available on the market. If you were fortunate enough to get a pair, hang on to them. These are sure to reach epic status when it comes to movie memorabilia.
Oliver Peoples re-released the Tyler Durden sunglasses in 2009 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Fight Club movie. The OP 523 style, which had been out of production since the year 2000, was available again in limited quantities in two colors. The blood red lenses in a silver frame and the gold frame with the orange lenses. Only 75 pairs in each color were sold.
The Tyler Durden sunglasses are now considered to be a collector's item. There aren't many sunglasses that can make a claim like that. Although two other Oliver Peoples sunglass designs were featured in the Fight Club movie, the Aero and the Sunset, the Tyler Durden sunglasses, the OP 523, gained the most attention.
If you wore a pair of these sunglasses, you were certainly noticed. Heads turned as you walked by in your Tyler Durden sunglasses with their blood red lenses. Your status was elevated from ordinary to cool. The Fight Club movie glasses garnered attention worldwide. Not only were Hollywood celebrities wearing them, but ordinary people sported these attention getters. Everyone wanted to be in on the Tyler Durden sunglasses phenomenon.
You would see these sunglasses being worn at outdoor activities and parties. Beach goers sported them, people simply walking about wore them, and celebrities donned them to walk the red carpet or simply to wear when they were out and about, doing what the Hollywood set usually does, which is attract attention, and these glasses certainly did that. If you couldn't be Tyler Durden, you could certainly mimic the Hollywood style.
If you think that you might want to grab onto a pair of these infamous Tyler Durden sunglasses, start checking the on-line auction sites and be prepared to have a long wait, because those fortunate enough to have an original pair aren't going to be parting with them anytime soon, because the longer they keep them the more the value goes up.