"The world leaders and company executives meeting in Davos this week were meant to be discussing the most complex and alarming geopolitical crisis most could ever remember. Instead, all eyes were on Emmanuel Macron. The French president's appearance in reflective Top Gun-style aviator sunglasses was the image that launched a thousand pithy jokes, memes and questions. Had he been injured while sparring in the boxing ring?"
"Some, like the communication specialist Philippe Moreau Chevrolet, saw the president's decision to wear the French-made eyewear as symbolic in the context of France's strained relations with the US. The real reason was more prosaic: Macron was stylishly disguising a sub-conjunctival haemorrhage, a burst blood vessel in his right eye a condition he described as totally benign. But even he was not immune to cliches."
World leaders and company executives meeting in Davos intended to address a major geopolitical crisis, but attention focused on Emmanuel Macron's reflective Top Gun-style aviator sunglasses. Observers speculated about injury from boxing or gym workouts and whether he was avoiding eye contact with Donald Trump. Macron actually wore the glasses to conceal a benign sub-conjunctival haemorrhage, describing it as l'oeil du tigre and a mark of determination. The sunglasses generated jokes, memes and questions, and created publicity for artisan eyewear makers such as Maison Henry Jullien and its owner iVision Tech.
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