6031

Name: Linda Farrow 6031
Brand: Linda Farrow
Availability: OutOfStock

Tony Montana in Scarface, 1983 — as worn by Al Pacino

Early in *Scarface* (1983), Tony Montana and Manny Ribera spend time at the Fontainebleau Hilton’s pool in Miami Beach, a real hotel location used for the film.

The scene

Early in *Scarface* (1983), Tony Montana and Manny Ribera spend time at the Fontainebleau Hilton’s pool in Miami Beach, a real hotel location used for the film. The resort’s sunlit leisure setting gives the scene a relaxed surface, while the conversation turns to Tony’s ambitions and his belief that money will bring power and women. Linda Farrow 6031 sunglasses frame Tony’s gaze as he watches the women nearby with Manny.

Manny approaches the women with easy confidence, while Tony observes and talks through his own calculations about attraction and status. The contrast between the friends is plain: Manny is socially nimble, whereas Tony’s attention keeps returning to what wealth can secure. His line of thought reduces romance to a transaction, foreshadowing the way he will measure success by possession and control. The sunglasses give that appraisal a literal visual barrier, keeping his expression partly concealed as he studies the scene around him.

The frames register in close views and wider poolside compositions as a sharply defined accessory against the bright hotel environment. Their blue, black, and silver detailing makes the eyewear legible without interrupting the scene’s casual rhythm. Rather than belonging to Tony’s later, more formal displays of wealth, this pair appears during his early Miami period, when ambition is still being voiced as a promise. The poolside exchange captures the difference between his present circumstances and the power he imagines money will deliver.

Archive — the object

Linda Farrow founded her London eyewear label in 1970, during a period when sunglasses were increasingly treated as fashion objects rather than solely functional vision accessories. The founder designed and produced frames for other fashion businesses as well as under her own name. The archival 6031 belongs to the label’s early era, before its 1980s pause and later revival by Linda Farrow’s son, Simon Jablon.

The 6031 is an oversized vintage sunglasses design with a pronounced brow line and aviator-influenced lens shape. The documented surviving example is described as made in the United States, in medium sizing, with a 137-millimetre frame width, 56-millimetre lenses, and 130-millimetre temples. Its blue, black, and silver combination includes dark lenses and a light upper-frame accent; available records do not reliably specify the frame’s exact material or lens technology, so those details should not be inferred.

In *Scarface*, Al Pacino wears the model as Tony Montana during the early Fontainebleau poolside sequence with Manny Ribera. The identified screen version is blue, black, and silver, matching the color description documented for the vintage model. It is a discontinued archival design, now encountered through vintage and collector resale rather than current brand production.

Linda Farrow’s original business paused in the mid-1980s; Simon Jablon revived the label in 2003 after discovering its archived designs and stock. That documented chronology places the 6031 within the first phase of the house’s history, distinct from its later collections and collaborations.

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