Jessica Glasscock

Jul 17, 2024 | freakonomics.com | Stephen Dubner |Jessica Glasscock |Tim Wu |Neil Handley

Episode Transcript Here’s a riddle for you. Name an item that is both a medical device and a fashion accessory. An item that may cost $50 to make, but often sells for over $1,000. An item that was invented eight centuries ago, has improved billions of lives — and yet many people who need it don’t have it, especially children. Have you figured it out?

Jul 27, 2023 | 1stdibs.com | Karen Quarles |Jessica Glasscock

A rare find, Oliver Goldsmith’s alluring Yuhu wraparound frames are the pinnacle of avant-garde eyewear, as radical today as they were when they were produced, in the 1960s. A design famously worn by Audrey Hepburn on the poster for Stanley Donen’s 1967 film Two for the Road, these supermodern sunglasses capture the moment eyewear exploded as a fashion accessory.