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Shamir France donates protective eyewear to health agencies
Shamir’s French unit gave 1,600 pairs of safety eyewear to regional health agencies located in the Paris region and in the east of France. The donated items are three models with an anti-fog treatment from the Eyres collection. They are going to the staff of nursing homes and medical teams ...
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CooperVision offers a drop-shipping service
CooperVision launched a new service for opticians, “CooperVision Direct,” aiming to support retailers during the coronavirus crisis. Opticians can get contact lenses ordered through CVI delivered straight to the end consumer or to any other desired address. Until June 30, CVI will also cover the shipping costs. The company plans ...
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Dragon Eyewear launches Upcycled
Dragon Eyewear – one of Marchon’s 25 eyewear brands – is launching Upcycled, a collection of frames made from recycled plastic water bottles. It comprises three unisex sunglass frames and three unisex ophthalmic frames, each made of five “upcycled” bottles. According to Marchon Eyewear’s senior vice president of global brands, ...
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Rossignol and Julbo continue to partner with Martin Fourcade
Rossignol and Julbo will continue to partner with Martin Fourcade, despite his surprise retirement announcement in mid-March. According to reports in sport-guide.com, the French biathlete and five-time Olympic champion has signed a three-year extension of his contract with Rossignol. Julbo also told sport-guide.com that it will further extend its long-standing ...
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Mazzucchelli and others become more sustainable
Mazzucchelli 1849, the world’s leading supplier of acetate sheet for eyeglasses and sunglasses, has just announced that it will start commercial deliveries of a new type of sheet made from Eastman Acetate Renew during the second quarter of 2020. Eastman Chemical Company says that Mazzucchelli, a long-time partner of the ...
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+++ Marchon has renewed for several years its license agreement with the Italian fashion group Liu Jo, which started in 201 +++ Marcolin has launched a limited edition of Tom Ford eyewear made in Japan +++ Scicon Sports, an Italian maker of cycling products, is partnering with Shamir for a ...
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Safilo signs deal with French designer
Safilo has signed a 10-year license agreement with the French designer Isabel Marant. The first collection will be launched for the spring/summer 2021 season. The eyewear maker aims to attract Gen Z customers and Millennials with the new line. Marant, who designs women’s clothes, founded her label in 1994, and ...
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Luxottica renews deal with Dole & Gabbana
Luxottica said that it has renewed its license agreement with Dolce & Gabbana, the Italian fashion house. The 10-year renewal is effective from Jan. 1, 2020, and runs until Dec. 31, 2029. The companies have been working together for 15 years.
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INVU launches line
INVU, the Swiss brand of polarized sunglasses, has launched a new line of optical prescription frames that can be turned into fashionable sunglasses with the application of specially designed polarized sun clips. The Swiss Eyewear Group says that the magnetic clips are cleverly engineered to make them invisible. The collection ...
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MITA launches sustainable line
MITA Eyewear is launching a sustainable line of 17 styles of prescription frames and 13 sunglasses, called Collezione 1. It uses biodegradable lenses and eyewear made with recycled aluminum and a plastic material coming from recycled bottles.
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Okia upgrades its Reshape collection
Okia has presented an upgraded version of its Reshape collection of biodegradable glasses made with upcycled plastic bottles. It has also introduced a collection of lightweight frames made of a new, trademarked magnesium-aluminum alloy called Suflexium. According to the company, Suflexium exceeds the strength of steel at about one-third of ...
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Rokid’s temperature sensing glasses
According to the South China Morning Post, the police in Hangzhou, capital of China’s Zhejiang Province, are wearing smart glasses that can read the skin temperature of anyone standing within a radius of one meter to track down cases of Covid-19 infection. Made by a Chinese tech start-up, Rokid, the ...
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LVMH has consolidated its position as the world's largest luxury...
LVMH has consolidated its position as the world's largest luxury goods company by using its huge cash flow to acquire Tiffany & Co. The $16 billion takeover of New York-based jeweler is the largest ever made in the luxury goods sector. It puts LVMH more or less on a par ...
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HUUB, a leading British supplier of swim goggles, has launched...
HUUB, a leading British supplier of swim goggles, has launched a prescription version of its Altair model for short-sighted people
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Morel is decreasing the number of brands used for its...
Morel is decreasing the number of brands used for its sunglasses from three – 1880, Koali and Öga – to one, called Azur, supplying them with new high-performance lenses through an exclusive partnership with Divel Italia. The French frame producer has nevertheless split its singular Azur collection into three segments. ...
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Chloé, the French fashion brand licensed by Marchon, has launched...
Chloé, the French fashion brand licensed by Marchon, has launched its first snow goggle in partnership with its California-based Dragon operation
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Pantone has chosen Classic Blue as the color of the...
Pantone has chosen Classic Blue as the color of the year for 2020. A French company, Afternoon, has the global eyewear license for Pantone.
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Komono, the Belgian brand of prescription eyewear and sunglasses, is...
Komono, the Belgian brand of prescription eyewear and sunglasses, is coming out with its first line of snow goggles
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Etnia Barcelona has introduced two new models of sunglasses, Ziggy...
Etnia Barcelona has introduced two new models of sunglasses, Ziggy Stardust and The Thin White Duke, to celebrate David Bowie, the British singer, composer and actor who died at the beginning of 2016. The Ziggy style is based on the costumes worn by Bowie during the so-called Glam period, including ...
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The German Design Council, the authoritative German body for branding...
The German Design Council, the authoritative German body for branding and design, has conferred the German Design Award 2020 on Jos. Eschenbach for two of its latest eyewear models, made of titanium and acetate
