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Brunello Cucinelli and Oliver Peoples partner
Brunello Cucinelli, the Italian luxury fashion brand renowned for its cashmere apparel, is launching its first capsule eyewear collection in collaboration with Oliver Peoples, a brand of the EssilorLuxottica group. Made in Italy, the co-branded collection will include five styles and will be distributed from September this year through both ...
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News briefsJF Rey releases 3D-printed collection
Jean-François Rey, the Marseille-based eyewear designer brand, is launching a series of seven frames with a 3D-printed Nylon face, following the success of its NAUTILUS launch a year ago. The 3D-printed shapes are produced using the Selective Laser Sintering technology, an additive manufacturing technique that uses a laser to sinter ...
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News briefsThélios releases its first FENDI collection
FENDI, the Italian luxury brand, and Thélios, the joint venture between LVMH and Marcolin, have signed an exclusive license for the design, production and distribution of Fendi-branded eyewear. The first release under this collaboration is the Fall/Winter 2021 collection of sunglasses and eyeglasses, which will be available in FENDI stores ...
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ArticleFashion-focused Mondottica upbeat about post-Covid rebound
Mondottica International, the eyewear company specializing in licensed eyewear, is preparing for the launch of its first Vivienne Westwood eyewear collections in the second half of the year. The new license is the first addition to the Hong Kong-based company’s portfolio since the departure of Michael Jardine, founder and former ...
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Mirage signs North Sails license
Mirage, the Italian OEM company specializing in polyamide eyewear, has announced the signature of a licensing agreement for the production and distribution of sunglasses under the North Sails brand. Founded by Lowell North in 1957, a U.S. sailor and Olympic gold medalist, North Sails is one of the leading sailmakers ...
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Bollé launches new AI-developed lens
Bollé Brands has announced the launch of a new Volt+ sunglass line which incorporates a new lens technology designed to improve the perception of colors by the wearer. Based on the analysis of over 20 million lens formula combinations by artificial intelligence tools, the new lens is said to provide ...
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EssilorLuxottica renew two licenses
EssilorLuxottica announced in the last few days the extension of its eyewear licenses for the development, production and international distribution of sunglasses and eyeglasses under the Coach and the Tory Burch brand. The Coach license agreement has been renewed for five years, until June 20, 2026 while the Tory Burch ...
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ArticleDeep Optics kickstarts liquid crystal lenses’ hybrid sunglasses
It took less than twelve hours for the Israeli startup Deep Optics to complete its $25,000 objective in its Kickstarter campaign for the launch of its new 32°N product, a pair of sunglasses with adaptative lenses that can easily be switched to a reading glasses’ function. Launched on the crowdfunding ...
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French eyewear know-how showcased at the Élysée palace
The eyewear manufacturer Vuillet Vega and the lens maker Novacel will both present their know-how and one of their products during the second edition of “La grande exposition du fabriqué en France”, an event organized on July 3 and 4 by the French ministry of industry in order to showcase ...
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De Rigo adds new house brand for women
De Rigo is adding a new brand to its portfolio of house brands which already includes Police, STING and Lozza, in addition to the licensed fashion brands. The new brand, Yalea, is presented as a 100 % female brand of prescription eyewear and sunglasses, designed with women in mind and ...
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Riley partners with Vision Express for RX safety eyewear
Globus Group, a British specialist in personal protective equipment for industry and healthcare, has signed a partnership with Vision Express, a retail chain from the GrandVision group with over 550 retail locations in the U.K. and Ireland, for the supply of prescription protective eyewear under its Riley brand. Since last ...
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Hoya gives an update on its MiYoSmart study
Hoya Vision Care presented an update of its MiYoSmart research on children’s myopia management during the national congress of the French ophthalmologists’ association last month. The presentation, which came after three years of research in partnership with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, largely confirmed previous results communicated in 2019: The ...
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Ditto launches a PD-measurement tool
Ditto, the U.S.-based supplier of Virtual Try-On (VTO) solutions, is launching TruePD, a new tool that calculates the pupillary distance (PD), a key information for online retail of prescription eyewear. The company’s product is said to provide PD information with a margin of error of 1 millimeter in the large ...
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VSP partners with Zeiss and Hoya
VSP Global announced that it would add Carl Zeiss Vision and HOYA Vision Care lenses and treatments into its VSP Global Premier Program starting July 1, in addition to its own VSP Optics products. The decision comes after the VSP network’s doctors asked for a broader range of lens options, ...
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ArticleTooz launches its smart glasses for developers in Germany
Aiming to mass market smart glasses compatible with prescription lenses at the beginning of next year, tooz technologies, the joint venture founded in 2018 by ZEISS and Deutsche Telekom, is first targeting the community of IT developers in order to collect feedback and finetune the final phase ...
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FDA approves J&J’s myopia management CL
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care announced a few days ago that it has received the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ACUVUE Abiliti contact lenses. According to the company, it is the first and currently only myopia management orthokeratology lens that has been approved by ...
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ArticleEssilux ramps up Stellest
Only a few days after announcing significant developments for its myopia management lens in China and the U.S. during its conference call with financial investors, EssilorLuxottica disclosed updated results on its Stellest research during the online congress of the Société Française d’Ophtalmologie a few days ago and confirmed a launch ...
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Satisloh launches two new polishing machines
Satisloh, the Swiss-based manufacturer of ophthalmic and optical equipment that is part of the Essilor group, is launching two new fully automated RX lens polishing machines. Named Multi-FLEX-2 and Multi-FLEX-2E, they come as new additions to the Multi-FLEX range which was launched in 2015 and whose machines produce more than ...
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Zenni introduces the first batch of its Iris Apfel collection
Zenni has signed a multi-year deal with the interior and fashion designer, and self-described “world’s oldest living teenager” and “geriatric starlet,” Iris Apfel. The first batch of the Iris x Zenni line consists of 100 items – in celebration of her forthcoming 100th birthday – selected by Apfel herself. These ...
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Kering Eyewear adds blue-light and photochromic lenses to selected brands
Kering Eyewear is launching its Blue & Beyond project, which consists of integrating of blue-light filtering and photochromic lenses in a selection of its eyewear frames. The Blue & Beyond solution will be applied to some women and men styles in the Gucci and Saint Laurent collections, and to some ...
