All Products articles – Page 49
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Vishion, a Swiss start-up company, has developed a pillow for...
Vishion, a Swiss start-up company, has developed a pillow for eyewear, which allows the wearer to relax and lay down on their side without the frame of the glasses pressing into their temples or nose. The product is called “eyePad” and it is currently only sold in Switzerland.
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Loewe has prolonged its partnership with De Rigo Vision for...
Loewe has prolonged its partnership with De Rigo Vision for the design, production and worldwide distribution of its eyewear. The collaboration of the Spanish fashion house, part of the LVMH group, with Italy-based De Rigo started 14 years ago and will now continue under the supervision of Loewe's new ...
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Optical Service, a 20-year-old British company that sells about one...
Optical Service, a 20-year-old British company that sells about one million pairs of frames a year under 15 different house brands, has obtained a license for Schott eyewear that covers the U.K., the Baltic countries and South Africa, where it carries most of its export business through an export agent. ...
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Safilo celebrates its 80th birthday with a new capsule collection...
Safilo celebrates its 80th birthday with a new capsule collection of its flagship brand in partnership with Marc Newson, the Australian-born industrial designer. The eyewear case has been created by Álvaro González, the artistic director of Valextra. On sale since mid-April, the “Safilo by Marc Newson” collection is available at ...
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Allison has launched the first tatooed eyewear under its Opposit...
Allison has launched the first tatooed eyewear under its Opposit brand, in partnership with Agatha Menegaz and Guè Pequeno, the Italian rapper and music producer. For this unprecedented project, Guè chose Opposit's TM503S14 model, which now features the same tattoos as the ones on the rapper's body. The frame and ...
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Italia Independent has announced two new partnerships. The Italian creative...
Italia Independent has announced two new partnerships. The Italian creative and stylish brand co-founded by Lapo Elkann has partnered with Adidas to launch a new eyewear line called Adidas Originals x Italia Independent. The collection will be available worldwide from the autumn/winter season this year. In addition, Italia Independent has ...
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In announcing the extension of its Original Penguin license for...
In announcing the extension of its Original Penguin license for eyewear for five years, Kenmark has said that it will expand the line with models that will be launched this coming summer for boys aged 8 to 14. Kenmark has also extended its Kensie license for three more years.
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Google plans to develop a contact lens with an incorporated...
Google plans to develop a contact lens with an incorporated camera and display. According to on online magazine, Google has already registered for a patent at the U.S. patent office. The camera can be started by means of an integrated sensor per eyelid movement. A smartphone, carried by the wearer ...
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Faoflex has created a new hinge for spectacles that requires...
Faoflex has created a new hinge for spectacles that requires no screws. This Italian frame manufacturer, who is based at Segusino, has devised an ingenious system that gives the temples all the movement they require using a hinge, called Articula, that is made up of a series of “vertebrae.” It ...
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Mykita has partnered with Maison Martin Margiela, the fashion house...
Mykita has partnered with Maison Martin Margiela, the fashion house bought by Renzo Rosso in 2002, for two new collections of eyewear, “Essential” and “Dual.” They were presented for the first time last month at selected Maison Martin Margiela boutiques and Mykita stores worldwide, followed by a broader release at ...
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The introduction of new systems by various lens manufacturers to...
The introduction of new systems by various lens manufacturers to block the penetration of harmful blue light is enlivening the eyewear market. The BiB Group has indirectly benefitted with strong demand and big orders at recent trade shows for a new device that measures the lens' ability to do this, ...
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WearLite, a Swiss lens manufacturer that won last year's Swiss...
WearLite, a Swiss lens manufacturer that won last year's Swiss Innovation Prize, has cooperated with Prost Boucle, a well-known manufacturer of eyewear frames based in Geneva, for its latest product innovation, “DiamondFusion.” At the Baselworld trade fair for jewelry, WearLite presented the first lens with incorporated diamonds and jewels. In the ...
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Inspecs has announced a longterm licensing agreement for eyewear with...
Inspecs has announced a longterm licensing agreement for eyewear with O'Neill, the international surf and young lifestyle brand that had been licensed by Spy since 2009. The agreement covers the design, manufacture and distribution of ophthalmic frames, sunglasses and snow goggles under the O'Neill name. The first collections are being ...
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Among other interesting novelties, Opto-Tech has introduced a completely new...
Among other interesting novelties, Opto-Tech has introduced a completely new star-shaped system for the automatic generation of free-form surfaced lenses, called IQ-Star, based on a new tower structure, that takes up less space than a conventional system. The job trays go through the tower for the different tasks and the ...
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Another international surf brand, Rip Curl, has licensed its eyewear...
Another international surf brand, Rip Curl, has licensed its eyewear to the recently formed Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG) for Europe and some other parts of the world, starting in spring/summer 2015, with ADSL of France acting as a distributor. The Australian surfwear brand had been previously made only in-house. Formed ...
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Lunettes Grasset has presented its first line of eyewear based...
Lunettes Grasset has presented its first line of eyewear based on a global partnership with Skis Lacroix, a French brand of high-end skis named after a famous former French ski champion, Léo Lacroix. The line features eight styles of sunglasses and four styles of prescription frames made with magnesium, titanium ...
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Okia made a big fashion statement at this year's Mido...
Okia made a big fashion statement at this year's Mido fair in Milan by presenting a wide variety of three-dimensional decorations for the fronts and the temples of any frames, with multi-layered patterns and a wide range of colors, based on a further evolution of its HDA technology, which obtained ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision Sunlens has launched a special polycarbonate lens...
Carl Zeiss Vision Sunlens has launched a special polycarbonate lens for ski goggles engineered to soften the shock of passing from bright sun on snow to zones of shadow. The lens consequently improves vision in the shadow. The same technology is adapted to sunglasses used for driving. The company is ...
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Eschenbach has put out a children's line for its licensed...
Eschenbach has put out a children's line for its licensed Marc O'Polo eyewear collection
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Höet presented at the Mido fair a “Couture” frame in...
Höet presented at the Mido fair a “Couture” frame in titanium, “made in Belgium” with an environment-friendly 3D manufacturing process. It consists of about 7,000 layers of titanium, each of which is 0.02 millimeters thick. The front features a subtle honeycomb structure that makes it more comfortable to wear. It ...
