Oakley at the Olympics: Turning Functional Eyewear Into Symbols of Style

As the world prepared for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, an iconic photo from the 2000 Sydney games made its rounds on social media and fashion sites. It showed Trinidadian sprinter Ato Boldon in an unmissable pair of silver sunglasses with arms that wrap over his head instead of sitting atop his ears. The futuristic, conversation-starting eyewear, aptly named the OVERTHETOP, was an innovation of the California-based brand Oakley and has become a symbol of athletes' functional expressions of...