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ArticleLGBTQ collections become mainstream for the fashion, sportswear industry
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
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 macular degeneration (AMD). Genentech, which is ...
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ArticleLuxottica produces anti-Covid masks for Italian government
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 initiative. The ...
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Article One launches collection with Ciele Athletics
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 price of $275 in the ...
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Robert La Roche revitalizes its collection
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 line and two limited ...
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Zeal releases sunglasses made of grass and PET
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 by biogas ...
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ArticleSelfridges launches Project Earth
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 on cotton, ...
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GLBL Eyewear signs licensing deal with ZooBug
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 the next few months.
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Goodr releases line of aviator sunglasses
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 models come ...
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News briefsOcean Sunglasses sees 2020 sales at €2.5 million
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 are jointly ...
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Spect to release new Red Bull sunglasses
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 temples made of antibacterial rubber. ...
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Thélios in license agreement with Stella McCartney
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 collection, which will ...
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Acuitis recycles fishing nets into sunglasses
Acuitis, the French chain of optical and hearing-aids’ shops, has released a small range of sunglasses in partnership with two companies based in the French Brittany region: the apparel brand Armor Lux and Fil & Fab, a start-up specializing in the recycling of fishing nets. After being collected and sorted, ...
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Kaibosh to release vintage-style collection with Bergans
It all started with the Instagram account of Norway’s National Library, which posted a newspaper ad from the 1930s showing that Bergans of Norway once made eyewear. Someone at the company noted a resemblance to his wife’s pair of Kaibosh glasses. And so a collaboration was born. The Kaibosh x ...
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Kubota Vision tests myopia-preventing smart glasses
Kubota Vision, the American subsidiary of the Japanese-based Kubota Pharmaceutical Holdings, last month enrolled its first patient for a clinical study aimed at controlling the development of myopia. Two months ago, the company reported positive results on a first research where myopically defocused images were projected by electronic tabletop devices ...
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Thélios in license agreement with Rimowa
Thélios, the Italian joint venture between the French luxury goods group LVMH and the Italian eyewear manufacturer Marcolin, has entered an exclusive design, production and distribution partnership with Rimowa, a German manufacturer of high-quality luggage which has been part of the LVMH group since 2016. It is Rimowa’s first eyewear ...
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Swiss Lens takes over Lunelle from CooperVision
Swiss Lens, a supplier of made-to-order contact lenses, will be taking over the production and international distribution of the complete Lunelle range of contact lenses from CooperVision from Nov. 1. The Swiss company has been supplying Lunelle Toric RX contact lenses to CooperVision for more than 20 years. The product ...
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Marcolin renews license agreement with Moncler
Marcolin has renewed its worldwide license agreement with Moncler, an Italian brand of down-filled jackets for five years to Dec. 31, 2025. Marcolin had obtained the license in 2015, replacing Allison. At the time, Marcolin and Moncler had agreed to a five-year license with an option for a five-year renewal. ...
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Bollé uses AR to test sunglass lenses
Bollé, the French manufacturer of sports and lifestyle sunglasses, ski goggles and ski and bike helmets, is offering its customers for the first time an augmented reality (AR) tool for smartphones to try on and test its lenses and sunglasses.Developed in partnership with QReal and M7 Innovations, Bollé’s AR experience ...
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Drumohr launches a small sunglass collection
Drumohr, the Scottish knitwear brand established in 1770 and bought in 2016 by the Itailan businessman Michele Ciocca, has launched a small eyewear collection. The designer Emanuele Magenta proposed the brand extension to Ciocca, who accepted the idea. The collection comprises only one model of unisex acetate sunglasses, available in ...
