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    Oakley factory to produce face shields

    2020-09-17T13:08:00Z

    EssilorLuxottica’s frame unit Luxottica has converted part of Oakley ’s Foothill Ranch factory in Orange County, California, to supply face shields to meet growing demand for protective equipment against the Covid-19 virus. The 550,000 square foot facility produces Oakley eyewear and goggles and the face shields will ...

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    ​EssilorLuxottica, Facebook plan to launch Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2021

    2020-09-17T13:04:00Z

    EssilorLuxottica and Facebook plan to launch a pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses in 2021. The two companies have entered a multiyear collaboration to develop the next generation of smart glasses. The announcement was made by Mark Zuckerberg , the founder and chief executive of the ...

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    Air_Art offers luxury eyewear cases

    2020-09-16T07:15:00Z

    Air_Art , a new French luxury eyewear brand has signed an exclusive partnership for a collection of eyewear cases with Emmanuel Kirsch , a French designer brand of leather accessories. The collection includes cases in precious animal skins like crocodile, iguana or python and retail from €149. Launched last ...

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    Revo partners with Jeep on an eyewear collection

    2020-09-15T17:21:00Z

    Revo has introduced a capsule collection that combines its polarized lenses – which draw from lenses developed at NASA to protect satellites from the sun – with design elements from the Jeep automotive brand. The Revo x Jeep Collection comprises four styles: Desert , an acetate navigator ...

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    Marcolin signs on Max Mara

    2020-09-15T15:40:00Z

    Unsurprisingly, Marcolin has signed a licensing agreement for the design, production and worldwide distribution of Max Mara sunglasses and eyeglasses. The partnership with the Italian fashion house has a five-year duration starting from Nov. 1, and enlarges Marcolin’s product offer for the womenswear market. It follows last ...

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    De Rigo obtains Philipp Plein license

    2020-09-11T09:29:00Z

    De Rigo has reached a worldwide license agreement for the design, manufacture and sale of sun and eyeglass frames with the Swiss-based fashion house Philipp Plein . The licence is effective immediately and the first collection is expected to be launched in the second half of 2021. The ...

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    Formuleyes signs licensing deal with Formula 1

    2020-09-10T16:37:00Z

    Formuleyes , a new eyewear company headquartered in Greater London, has signed a licensing deal with Formula 1 racing and will be producing a series of related collections. It will begin by celebrating Formula 1’s 70th anniversary with three models. The Titanium will be the first to market, ...

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    EnChroma introduces new glare-reducing lenses

    2020-09-10T06:02:00Z

    EnChroma of Berkeley, California, is releasing a new series of lenses and eyewear, called Lx Lens Technology , designed for those with visual impairment severe enough to be termed “low vision” (from cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration, etc.) and for people 50 and older who are particularly sensitive to glare ...

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    LGBTQ collections become mainstream for the fashion, sportswear industry

    2020-09-10T05:56:00Z

    The LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and queer) fashion market has been growing over the last decade. In recent years, an unprecedented number of mainstream brands have begun to release LGBTQ collections.

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    Novartis, Roche, Genentech fined €444.85 million in France in AMD treatment case

    2020-09-09T16:20:00Z

    The French competition authority, Autorité de la concurrence , has fined the pharmaceutical groups Novartis , Roche and Genentech, a combined €444.85 million for abuse of dominant position to impose the use of the drug Lucentis over its cheaper alternative Avastin in the treatment of age-related ...

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    ​Luxottica produces anti-Covid masks for Italian government

    2020-09-09T16:17:00Z

    Luxottica , the Italian unit of the Franco-Italian eyewear company EssilorLuxottica , said that it has started the large scale production of face masks to help prevent the propagation of the Covid-19 pandemic. The company has already delivered a first batch of 3.5 million items as part of a government-sponsored ...

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    ​Article One launches collection with Ciele Athletics

    2020-09-07T06:54:00Z

    Article One , an eyewear brand based in Flint, Michigan, has launched of the GTGlass collection in collaboration with the running brand Ciele Athletics . The AO X Ciele GTGlass is already available since Sept. 3 on articleoneeyewear.com and on cieleathletics.com. The model has a suggested retail ...

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    Robert La Roche revitalizes its collection

    2020-09-03T17:30:00Z

    Robert La Roche , the upscale eyewear brand owned by Michael Pachleitner and managed since September 2019 by Kamilia Kusz , is revitalizing its collection with 19 models conceived by two teams of designers. The up-and-coming Austrian fashion designer Christoph Rumpf will be in charge of an acetate ...

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    Zeal releases sunglasses made of grass and PET

    2020-08-27T06:34:00Z

    Zeal Optics of Boulder, Colorado, is launching a line of sunglasses with frames made of a material the company calls Sea Grass : a blend of grasses (straw, hemp, flax, rice) drawn from agricultural waste and recycled plastic bottles. Pellets of the material are manufactured in a process fueled ...

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    ​Selfridges launches Project Earth

    2020-08-24T12:17:00Z

    Selfridges has launched Project Earth, an initiative which explores “more sustainable ways to shop” by setting new sourcing standards and creating repair, resale and rental businesses. Under the scheme, the British department store pledges that by 2025 it will only stock products that respect its new sourcing standards ...

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    GLBL Eyewear signs licensing deal with ZooBug

    2020-08-19T08:51:00Z

    GLBL Eyewear Group and has signed a long-term licensing deal with the children’s eyewear brand ZooBug , founded in London by the ophthalmologist Julie Diem Le in 2006. New Zoobug collections and the “ Las Estrellas ” line, designed by Kate Hill , should make their debut in ...

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    Goodr releases line of aviator sunglasses

    2020-08-18T16:58:00Z

    Goodr of Inglewood, California, has released a line of sunglasses called Mach G . The collection comes in seven fancifully named, aviation-themed colorways: “Operation: Blackout,” “Frequent Skymall Shoppers,” “Captain Blunt’s Red Eye,” “Kitty Hawkers Ray Blockers,” “Amelia Earhart Ghosted Me,” “Buzzed on the Tower” and “Ace of Face.” All ...

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    Ocean Sunglasses sees 2020 sales at €2.5 million

    2020-08-08T13:22:00Z

    Ocean Sunglasses , the Spanish brand that claims to be world leader in eyewear for water sports, expects sales to reach €2.5 million this year and €2.8 million in 2021. The company achieves 30 percent of its revenues in France, which is its main market. The U.S. and Spain ...

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    Spect to release new Red Bull sunglasses

    2020-08-08T06:51:00Z

    Red Bull Spect Eyewear, a brand of the Austrian group Michael Pachleitner Group, has introduced Raze , a new model of sunglasses created in collaboration with the Red Bull Skydive Team . Raze has polarized lenses, a frame made of lightweight TR90 thermoplastic, and nose pads and ...

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    Thélios in license agreement with Stella McCartney

    2020-08-03T07:03:00Z

    The Italian eyewear group Thélios has entered an exclusive, long-term partnership with the British designer Stella McCartney . Under the agreement, Stella McCartney will collaborate with Thélios on sustainable innovation in the eyewear category. Thélios will develop, manufacture and distribute Stella McCartney eyewear beginning with the spring/summer 2021 ...