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There may be 13 ways of looking at a blackbird, but recent days have given us two ways to look at the elite wearing blocky white sunglasses, thanks to Melania Trump<\/strong> and Sam Altman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n On Sunday, the first lady and her husband, Donald Trump<\/strong>, trekked to New Jersey to take in the final match at the FIFA Club World Cup<\/a>, between Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea FC. Melania made a clean statement in a pristine white look, pairing a white Michael Kors pencil skirt and top with white Manolo Blahnik stilettos. The finishing touch? An oversized pair of white Christian Dior sunglasses, their slightly cat-eye frames complemented by similarly supersized temples bearing a gold Dior logo and shielding the parts of her eyes that the glasses\u2019 mirrored lenses couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n The shades are the brand\u2019s DiorNuit S1I model, first introduced with the house\u2019s Spring 2023 collection\u2014notably not<\/em> a freshly made Jonathan Anderson<\/strong>-era Dior style<\/a>. And make no mistake, Anderson\u2019s designs are already out there, for a certain flavor of VIP: When Rihanna<\/strong> walked the red carpet (well, blue) Sunday for the premiere of the new Smurfs<\/em> movie, she wore Saint Laurent, but her sons, nearly two-year-old Riot Rose<\/strong> and three-year-old RZA<\/strong>, both sported Anderson-designed Dior<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another VIP, though in an entirely different venue, also recently donned blocky white shades: In Sun Valley last week<\/a>, OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman<\/strong> wore oversized $410 sunnies by Vuarnet, of a similar shape, heavy temples and all, to protect himself from the glare of the sun (and the media) at the annual summit of the uber-wealthy. (Melania\u2019s stepdaughter, Ivanka Trump<\/strong>, was also in attendance.)<\/p>\n