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Marchon has signed a long-term licensing deal with Liu Jo,...
Marchon has signed a long-term licensing deal with Liu Jo, an up-and-coming Italian fashion brand. The first eyewear collection will be available from next January in Liu Jo stores and other selected points of sale worldwide. There are already shoes, handbags, watches and many other products sold under Liu Jo ...
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Mondottica USA has announced a global licensing deal for CB...
Mondottica USA has announced a global licensing deal for CB Sports eyewear. Founded in 1969 in the state of Vermont, CB Sports was one of the leading American brands of ski and outdoor clothing in the 1970s and 1980s. The brand sponsored the U.S. Olympic ski team at one stage, ...
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Adlens has introduced Adlens Focuss, a more fashion orientated version...
Adlens has introduced Adlens Focuss, a more fashion orientated version of its adjustable-focus glasses with smaller dials to adjust the power range of the lenses. Available in six finishes and colors, it has been ordered by LensCrafters for pre-Christmas sales at its stores. The company has already received orders for ...
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Zeal Optics has come out with a special line of...
Zeal Optics has come out with a special line of sunglasses with frames in biodegradable stainless steel frames, called Street Metals, inspired by rock bands. The material comes from buildings damaged in the nuclear disaster around Fukushima. The temples use Ace, Zeal's patented biodegradable cotton developed with Mazzucchelli.
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Rodenstock is cooperating with Claudia Schiffer, the German top model,...
Rodenstock is cooperating with Claudia Schiffer, the German top model, in the development of a new eyewear collection of prescription frames and sunglasses. The full collection, to be called ‘Claudia Schiffer by Rodenstock', will be presented for the first time during Opti 2014 in Munich and will be available worldwide ...
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Lunettes Grasset presented the first collection of prescription frames and...
Lunettes Grasset presented the first collection of prescription frames and sunglasses under the recently acquired licensed for the Tara Jarmon brand at this year's Silmo trade show in Paris. The collection includes 60 models in total, 30 sunglasses and 30 prescription frames. The sunglasses will be sold by Tara Jarmon's ...
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Flair has expanded its exclusive Art Couture product line to...
Flair has expanded its exclusive Art Couture product line to a collection of sunglasses, which was launched at Silmo this year for international markets. Sales in Germany started in August this year with a range of six models priced from €500 and up at retail. For the German company, it ...
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Rodenstock has won the German Design Award 2014 in the...
Rodenstock has won the German Design Award 2014 in the lifestyle category for its Rodenstock Perfection R8005 frame A jury of 30 design experts from business, education and science as well as the design industry selected the frame for the coveted premium prize from a total of 1,900 submissions. The premium ...
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Dita Eyewear won the Silmo d'Or in the category of...
Dita Eyewear won the Silmo d'Or in the category of optical frames for its TB-011 model out of its new Thom Browne collection. Thom Browne, a menswear designer, signed a global licensing agreement with Dita Eyewear in June 2011. The second collection, comprising 30 styles, was already launched at Mido ...
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Theo recently worked together with a Japanese company, Factory 900,...
Theo recently worked together with a Japanese company, Factory 900, that won this year's Silmo d'Or in the category of sunglasses, for the development of two models that can be used either as optical frames or as sunglasses. The models, designed by Patrick Hoet, are available in eight different colors ...
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Ic! Berlin was nominated for the Silmo d'Or in the...
Ic! Berlin was nominated for the Silmo d'Or in the category of frame technological innovation for its new collection of colored frames. The company presents ia collection eight models in four different loud colors. They are made by means of a vacuum-based coating process developed by a supplier based in ...
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PQ Eyewear was nominated for the Silmo d'Or in the...
PQ Eyewear was nominated for the Silmo d'Or in the category of frame technological innovation for its Angel Frame. The one-piece frame without hinges was presented in a preview at last year's Silmo show held in Paris. The full collection of optical frames and sunglasses, 22 models in total, was ...
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Etnia Barcelona has partnered with the Yves Klein foundation for...
Etnia Barcelona has partnered with the Yves Klein foundation for a range of sunglasses and prescription frames. The Klein Blue collection, based on the patented color from the French artist Yves Klein, includes 12 optical frames and 6 models of sunglasses. 10 percent of sales from the collection will be ...
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Hapter, an Italian brand inspired by a pair of glacier...
Hapter, an Italian brand inspired by a pair of glacier military goggles from the Second World War, was nominated for the Silmo d'Or in the category of optical frames for its model A01L. The first collection of the brand, txtl001, presented for the first time at Mido in Milan, includes ...
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Samsung has registered a patent for wearable computer glasses that...
Samsung has registered a patent for wearable computer glasses that are connected to a smartphone, which might be its answer to Google Glass wearable devices. The patent has been categorized as a type of “sports glasses.” It states that the device will allow users to take phone calls and listen ...
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Nidek, a Japanese company that carries out some of its...
Nidek, a Japanese company that carries out some of its R&D in Italy, has won a Silmo d'Or award for the ARK-IS, an auto-refracto-kermatometer with new functions for the acquisition of objective refraction parameters, simultaneously measuring central refraction and periphery. Using a 3D tracking system and an auto-shot, it allows ...
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Italy's Gruppo Randazzo reports a special agreement with the Lions...
Italy's Gruppo Randazzo reports a special agreement with the Lions Club for the collection of used eyeglasses at its 101 Optimssimo stores during the months of November and December. In exchange for them, customers will get a voucher entitling them to a discount of €100 on a new pair of ...
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Specsavers made a noticeable return to prime-time TV advertising in...
Specsavers made a noticeable return to prime-time TV advertising in the U.K. with a new funny development of its “Should've gone to Specsavers” commercial spot. It features a short-sighted Zumba instructor who enters a room where old people are expecting to play bingo. As she plays her aerobics act, the ...
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Rodenstock has launched a digital marketing campaign in five countries...
Rodenstock has launched a digital marketing campaign in five countries for its range of computer spectacles. The core of the campaign is a special website, relax-your-eyes.com, which was launched on Oct. 10 for World Sight Day, a global event organized by communities, associations and non-government organizations, which work with the ...
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The 25th edition of the Vision Expo West show in...
The 25th edition of the Vision Expo West show in Las Vegas reported a 5 percent increase in overall attendance last month as compared to its previous session in 2012. A total of around 13,000 visitors from 89 countries went to the fair, which hosted more than 425 exhibitors. Next ...
