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ArticleAfter Balmain, Akoni adds Valentino to portfolio
Valentino, the Italian fashion house, and Luxottica have announced the termination of their global eyewear licensing agreement in June 2022, after a five-year collaboration that has been described as successful by both partners. The Rome-based brand announced on the same day that it had signed a new licensing partnership with ...
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Julbo, Vuarnet to launch Paris 2024 collections
Julbo has announced that it would launch next year a collection of sunglasses under the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics license, in both its optical and sport distributions networks. The collection will consist of a Paris 2024 range and another one carrying the colors of the French team. The company ...
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CooperVision reveals new MiSight research data
CooperVision has disclosed new clinical trial data for its MiSight 1 day myopia contact lens, showing no rebound in children myopia one year after cessation of treatment. After six years of clinical trial using MiSight 1 day, study participants were transitioned to single vision lens in order to measure whether ...
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Walmart and Sam’s Club Elton John collection
Walmart and a subsidiary, the warehouse-store chain Sam’s Club, are launching a line of eyewear designed in collaboration with the singer-songwriter Elton John. The model names – Rocketman, A-List and Prodigy, for example – also come from John and reflect his life and career. Walmart Inc. will be donating at ...
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Allergan gets FDA approval for presbyopia eye drop
Allergan has announced the approval that its VUITY eye-drop presbyopia solution had just received the approval of the U.S. Foods & Drugs Administration (FDA). Phase 3 clinical studies have showed that VUITY, based on a formulation of pilocarpine and delivered by the company’s proprietary technology pHast, improved near and intermediate ...
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ArticleCharmant Europe displays Japanese heritage and craft with new brand
Visitors at the recent Silmo eyewear trade fair in Paris were able to take a look for the first time at Charmant’s new house brand, Minamoto, just launched by the European subsidiary of the Japanese eyewear maker. Satoshi Otsuki, president of Charmant Europe, told us that Minamoto, which means “origin” ...
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Ray-Ban enters the NFT market
EssilorLuxottica is entering the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with its Ray-Ban brand in collaboration with Extraweg, a German artist renown for its 3D Motion Designs. NFTs, which are assets certifying the authenticity and uniqueness of digital products, have been gaining popularity in the contemporary art sector in the last ...
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ArticleMICROOLED partners with urban mobility start-up on smart eyewear
Cosmo Connected, a French start-up company founded in 2015, has announced the launch of Cosmo Vision, its connected glasses designed to replace the use of smartphone for bicycle and motorbike users during their rides. The company, which is led by Romain Afflelou, develops safety solutions for urban mobility such as ...
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Kubota gets ISO certification for myopia management device
Kubota Vision, a subsidiary of Kubota Pharmaceutical, has announced that it has received the Quality Management System - ISO 13485:2016 certification, an international safety and quality standard, for the design and development of ophthalmic medical devices. The company said it was in the final development stages of its Kubota Glass. ...
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Horizons launches VR system for tailored progressive lenses
Horizons Optical, the supplier of lens designs, coatings and services, has launched Mimesys, a new technology for the personalization of progressive lenses, at the recent Silmo trade fair in Paris. Based on VR measurements, the system registers and interprets the gaze dynamics of the patients. The information is collected through ...
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ArticleFirst launch and 2-year trial results announced for SightGlass Vision
In conjunction with the commercial launch of the product in the Netherlands, CooperVision released last week the results of the ongoing clinical trial on the performance of its SightGlass Vision lenses in terms of myopia progression reduction after two years of research. The CYPRESS clinical study, as it is called, ...
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ArticleHOYA and Haag-Streit partner in myopia management
HOYA Vision Care and Haag-Streit Diagnostics, a leading manufacturer of ophthalmic instruments and medical equipment, have announced a global partnership in the area of myopia management. Both companies said that the global sales and marketing agreement created a preferred partnership between them to help eye care professionals (ECP) in the ...
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Marchon and Zeiss announce license agreement
Marchon Eyewear and ZEISS Vision Care jointly announced yesterday that they have agreed on a multi-year and global licensing agreement for the development and the distribution of Zeiss-branded optical eyewear and sunglasses. The first eyewear collection under the new partnership will be launched internationally at the beginning of Spring 2022, ...
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Essilor to present 2-year results of Stellest research
Essilor will be presenting the results from a clinical trial of its Stellest lens at this year’s congress of the World Society of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (WSPOS), scheduled for Sept. 25. Drs. Damien Paillé, Guillaume Giraudet and Björn Drobe, from Essilor International’s research and development team, will be on ...
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ArticleBrand heritage and international expansion drive Revo growth
Revo, the American brand of high-end polarized sunglasses, is launching Revo Black, a new collection showcasing the brand’s latest developments in both lens and frame technologies. The new range includes three concepts – one featuring a carbon fiber frame, one with a titanium wire frame for the lightest Revo sunglass ...
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Thélios and Givenchy announce license partnership
Thélios, the joint venture between LVMH and Marcolin, and the French fashion brand Givenchy have announced a multi-year global license agreement for the design, production and distribution of Givenchy Eyewear, starting Jan. 1, 2022. The eyewear collections will be designed in collaboration with Matthew M. Williams, Givenchy’s creative director, and ...
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Spektre puts out capsule collection with Ruf
Spektre has signed an agreement with Ruf, the car manufacturer linked to Porsche, for the production of a 6-models capsule collection. Their frames will be offered to buyers of a Ruf car, and sold exclusively in the accessories’ line of the car manufacturer or directly from Spektre to the final ...
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Gold & Wood partners with Hoet for capsule collection
Gold & Wood is launching a 6-piece capsule collection in collaboration with eyewear designer Patrick Hoet, creator of the Hoet brand and one of the founding partners of the Belgian-based brand Theo Eyewear. The co-branded collection, which has been inspired by Gold & Wood’s know how and luxury materials such ...
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Xiaomi might have developed advanced smart glasses, or not
Xiaomi has informed The Verge both that it has developed smart glasses and that it has no plan to put them into production. Xiaomi Smart Glasses, as they are called, reportedly boast a display suitable for augmented reality (AR) – which, as The Verge notes, would put them ahead technologically ...
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Mega Optic to produce and distribute Kodak lenses in France
Mega Optic, a French subsidiary of the EssilorLuxottica group, will produce and distribute in France Kodak-branded lenses from January 2022. The company said that the Kodak lenses will receive the Origine France Garantie certification, a label guaranteeing that at least 50 percent of the product’s added value is acquired in ...
