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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 ...
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Oliver Peoples, the eyewear firm founded by Larry Leight in...
Oliver Peoples, the eyewear firm founded by Larry Leight in Los Angeles in 1987 and owned by Luxottica, has announced a partnership with a Parisian designer, Isabel Marant. The sunglasses from their collaboration are said to be combining California cool with Parisian chic. They come in two lightweight styles in ...
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Schalcon, has introduced Lipostamin, an innovative liquid that can be...
Schalcon, has introduced Lipostamin, an innovative liquid that can be sprayed on the eyelids to help combat hay fever and other common forms of allergy to plants and to dust, while moistening the eye. The unique spray is based on liposomes obtained from licorice, euphrasy, caper and helichrysum vegetable extracts. ...
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Employees of the Virgin Atlantic airline will be equipped with...
Employees of the Virgin Atlantic airline will be equipped with Google glasses from now on. According to the airline, the aim is to enhance the information service for first-class passengers and to make flying more glamorous. In the framework of a six-week testing phase, Virgin Atlantic has equipped its employees ...
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Silhouette has announced collaboration with the Felder sisters. Annette and...
Silhouette has announced collaboration with the Felder sisters. Annette and Daniela Felder, the German twins behind the Felder Felder fashion label, have collaborated with the Austrian eyewear brand on a selection of glasses they created especially for their autumn/winter fashion show in London. The glasses were revealed last February during ...
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Lissac has announced that it will soon be offering its...
Lissac has announced that it will soon be offering its customers the 3D printings of their glass prototypes. The monochrome prototype, in blue, will be made by a stereo-lithographic printer using a UV-photoresist resin. Stereolithography, also known as 3D layering or 3D printing, is a process allowing the creation of ...
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Visionix has announced the release of a new automatic lensmeter....
Visionix has announced the release of a new automatic lensmeter. The VX35, built with patented Visionix Power Map technology, is a wavefront-based lensmeter featuring a 130-point simultaneous measurement, for rapid and accurate measurements. This new instrument saves time by using the same method for measuring both prescription and UV transmission. ...
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Samsung is believed to be preparing its own “smart glasses”...
Samsung is believed to be preparing its own “smart glasses” to rival Google's. The South Korean firm is expected to launch the gadget at the IFA trade show in Berlin on Sept. 5-10, according to reports. Google has so far refused to reveal when it will put Glass on general ...
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Younger Optics and Indizen Optical Technologies are introducing Camber, a...
Younger Optics and Indizen Optical Technologies are introducing Camber, a lens blank with specially designed curves on both surfaces for a wider range of progressive lens solutions
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The Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG), which was recently formed by...
The Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG), which was recently formed by Jerry Dreifuss and other former managers of Polaroid Eyewear, has announced the signing of an exclusive global license agreement for a line of Marc Stone branded eyewear. Marc Stone is a Swiss fashion label that has received many design awards. ...
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Charmant launched its first Ad Lib collection for women at...
Charmant launched its first Ad Lib collection for women at Opti 2014 in Munich for introduction in all European countries
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Etnia Barcelona launched the sunglass collection “Wild love in Africa,”...
Etnia Barcelona launched the sunglass collection “Wild love in Africa,” developed in collaboration with the photographer Steve McCurry, at Opti 2014. Two percent of total sales of the collections will be donated to the Africa Rising Foundation.
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The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) is labelling all its freeform...
The Michael Pachleitner Group (MPG) is labelling all its freeform lenses with a micro-engraving from this month. MPG owns two lens manufacturing firms, Schulz in Germany and Optic Technologies in Austria. As it aims to present itself as a manufacturer of both frames and lenses, the Austrian firm is launching ...
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Spy has announced a global licensing deal with The J....
Spy has announced a global licensing deal with The J. Fin Group to develop, manufacture and sell apparel, accessories and consumer electronics under the Spy brand name. The timing and the modalities for the release of the new products in the various markets could not be learned at the time ...
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Google has announced through a blog post that it is...
Google has announced through a blog post that it is testing a “smart contact lens” for diabetics to monitor their blood-sugar levels while wearing the lens. The lens prototype uses a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor, embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material, which can generate ...
