“My mom doesn’t like it. My children don’t say anything, they are nice to their dad. Even in the Galthié family, the subject animates. The coach of the French rugby team has made his big black glasses with an almost futuristic look, a real symbol, an object inseparable from his person.
The reason for this unique style remains very simple. “These are plastic sports glasses that allow you to run, to fall because I broke all my glasses before. They don’t move, I can play squash, golf, I can run with the ball in training, “the coach told us in November 2020. Three years later, the look of the coach has not changed, with the same glasses screwed to the nose.
Its glasses come from a specialized manufacturer, known in the field, Opal Demetz. “It is not our effigy, but it is necessarily the one that highlights the brand the most without wanting it, answers the general manager of the company, Gilles Demetz. It may not be a model that respects fashion codes, but it fits her perfectly. Even on Google, the first search is Fabien Galthié glasses! »
A “customer like any other”
What even attract new customers? “It’s one of the models that sells well. Still, it’s an almost ten-year-old model, because it continues to wear the same ones. We have a small peak the next day or the day after when he is on TV. It will surely be even more with the World Cup. We took the stock accordingly, ”says the manufacturer, proud to equip the coach of the XV of France, big favorite of the World Cup.
A choice of glasses recommended by an optician in the Toulon region. The manufacturer therefore discovered, like rugby fans, the coach’s new glasses from his television. “That’s how we make a little buzz when we didn’t want it at all. Since then, we have contacted Fabien Galthié to equip him as well as possible and understand his requirements. We work with a lot of seriousness and above all pride, and we closely follow the performance of the French team, ”says Gilles Demetz.
Fabien Galthié remains, apart from his look and his attractiveness for the brand, a “customer like any other”. “We know his sight, a little farsighted, astigmatic and presbyopic like everyone else. It’s just not necessarily easy to equip as a former rugby player. You have to orient the frame well as for any sportsman, ”concludes the specialist, who also hopes that his glasses bring luck to the Blues.
