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When Prince asks you to make sunglasses with an extra lens smack dab on the middle of your forehead, you make said sunglasses. Sunglass designers Coco and Breezy announced that the crazy glasses that Prince wore last weekend on Saturday Night Live will soon be available to the public for pre-order. Here's the backstory on the glasses: Prince asked Minnesota natives Coco and Breezy to turn the digital drawing on his latest album cover into a reality, and these "3rd Eye" sunglasses are the result.
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