Kanye glasses

English

A young man wearing Kanye glasses.

Etymology

This style of sunglasses, which first became popular in the 1980s, was re-popularized in the early 2010s by American rapper Kanye West.

Noun

Kanye glasses pl (plural only)

1. A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
   • 2010, Patrice Evans, Negropedia: The Assimilated Negro's Crash Course on the Modern Black Experience, Three Rivers Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 181:

     It used to be trucker hats and Ray-Bans, followed by Kanye glasses and Day-Glo jewelry.

   • 2012, Vice Magazine, Dos & Don'ts: 2013 Daily Calendar‎^[1], Chronicle Books, →ISBN:

     Finally, someone even approaching futuristic enough to pull off those damn Kanye glasses.

   • 2013, Alyssa Newton, "Football season is here again Jag Fans", The Vanguard (University of South Alabama), Volume 53, Number 3, 12 August 2013, page 17:

     My freshman year, I cheered beside a guy with a huge Afro and Kanye glasses and a guy in a toga.

Synonyms

• shutter shades

Further reading

• Kanye glasses on Wikipedia.Wikipedia