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Industry News Monday 19th of July 2021
Safilo and Carolina Herrera Announce Agreement

Safilo and Carolina Herrera, the globally recognized fashion brand, announced a 5-year global licensing agreement for the design, manufacture, and distribution of Carolina Herrera branded eyewear. The license agreement will be effective as of January …

Industry News Friday 16th of July 2021
Contact Lens Institute Unveils Nationwide See Tomorrow Campaign

Colette Carlson, Human Behavior Expert and See Tomorrow Digital Event Featured SpeakerA new professional and consumer initiative from the Contact Lens Institute (CLI) is poised to reveal intriguing insights about how patient psyches surrounding vision…

Industry News Friday 16th of July 2021
Euroinsights – G?tti Boutiques in Switzerland

Nearly thirty years ago, Sven Gtti opened a chic boutique with Urs Niederer in an elegant, 19th-century historical building in Luzern, a magical city surrounded by lakes and mountains that co-habit in perfect harmony. Poets, princes, emperors, and kin…

Industry News Thursday 15th of July 2021
Katharina Schlager – Exclusive CAZAL Capsule-Collection

Katharina Schlager, best known in the industry as having long been the creative mind behind Andy Wolf-Eyewear, designed a Capsule Collection for the German eyewear manufacturer CAZAL. The production run is limited worldwide to 100 units in each color …

Industry News Thursday 15th of July 2021
DRY EYES

DRY EYESIn America, July is dry eyes awareness month and I feel it is something we should all talk about. Personally I suffer from dry eyes quite often and my optometrist said my tear ducts are under producing. Other issues I have is that I am a conta…

Industry News Tuesday 13th of July 2021
LDNR – Strong, Tailored, and Versatile Since 2013

First launched in 2013 by Jonathan Van Blerk, LDNR evolved out of an idea to create an engaging street-oriented sunglasses collection with a bold attitude, immersed in the UK music scene – and with particular links to The Isle of Wight Festival.Formi…

Industry News Monday 12th of July 2021
Researchers Shows Recycling of the Eye’s Light Sensors Is Faulty

Components behind age-related macular degeneration also important in other diseases, suggesting similarly designed therapies as potential treatments for a range of conditions.With the National Eye Institute reporting that about 11 million older adults…

Industry News Friday 9th of July 2021
Mirage And North Sails Announce Licensing Agreement

Mirage – one of the most advanced (and historic) producers of Polyamide (Nylon) eyewear in history and the first in Italy to have used amorphous Polyamides since the 1980s and Grilamid TR90 since the early 1990s – and North Sails Apparel have signed…

Industry News Wednesday 7th of July 2021
Between Avant-Garde & Courage – HAPTER

Cutting-edge design and bravery to experiment: HAPTER presents its eyewear line, an innovative manufacturing project within the eyewear independent design landscape.All optical frames and sunglasses by HAPTER are manufactured through an innovative pro…

Industry News Friday 2nd of July 2021
Italia Independent Adds Another Brand

Italia Independent is adding another license to its portfolio.Italia Independent announced it has signed a three-year licensing agreement with Pacha Group, the Spanish holding company that owns and manages the Pacha brand.Pacha Group operates multiple…

Industry News Friday 2nd of July 2021
Porsche Design Presents New Air Intake Models

The new sunglasses in the Air Intake series from Porsche Design make a statement in terms of performance. Inspired by the air inlets of the Porsche 911, the so-called “Air Intakes” can be found not only in the name of the series but also in the dyna…

Industry News Friday 2nd of July 2021
Euroinsights – L.G.R – Collaboration with Space for Giants

Africa is at the root of Luca Gnecchi Ruscone’s history, creativity, and his visionary dreams and hopes for the future. Explorations in his grandfather’s optical warehouse in Eritrea, Africa where he found vintage sunglasses triggered Luca’s passio…

Industry News Friday 2nd of July 2021
KOMONO x Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

For the third year in a row, KOMONO is proud to renew its partnership with the fashion department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. KOMONO worked together with five master students in the creation of a pair of sunglasses linked to the student…

Industry News Friday 2nd of July 2021
HyperX Adds New Styles to Gaming Glasses Lineup

HyperX, the gaming peripherals team at HP Inc. and brand leader in gaming and esports, today announced HyperX Spectre Mission, a new family of gaming eyewear. Built for extended hours of gaming or time spent in front of a digital screen, the new eyewe…

Industry News Friday 25th of June 2021
WEAR YOUR RONIT FURST WITH PRIDE

In my personal life, I have many friends from the LGBT community and I totally adore them all. Sometime it feels like it is such a shame that even now we need to stop prejudice against the LGBT community. Same with racism. Anyway, June is pride month…

Industry News Friday 25th of June 2021
EVERYDAY STATEMENT

What’s not to like about the STEPPERS STS-30063? If you’re looking for eyewear that you can enjoy wearing all-day, every day that is also in tune with your personality, this could well be it.Many of us want to express ourselves in eyewear as we do …

Industry News Friday 25th of June 2021
Rumor Has It – Apple Display

According to a pending patent filed by Apple and spotted by PhoneArena, called “Display System With Localized Optical Adjustments”, Apple is looking at a lens that can allow the wearer to adjust the brightness of how one sees the real world to allow…

Industry News Friday 25th of June 2021
Lucyd Introduces Lyte Bluetooth E-glasses

Richard ShermanLucyd, the smart eyewear, and wearable software developer, is proud to introduce the Lucyd Lyte?. The Lyte is tech-enhanced eyewear on par with designer, lightweight, fashion frames. The Lyte represents both the pinnacle of form factor…

Industry News Friday 25th of June 2021
M.I.A X Clean Waves

M.I.A. is the nom de guerre of artist and activist Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam – whose childhood experiences growing up in the UK and Sri Lanka sparked a life-long drive to speak out against injustice and oppression. A pioneer for a global humanit…

Industry News Wednesday 23rd of June 2021
CAMP Eyewear – Setting Up Base Between Disposable And Premium

We’ve all been there. Ready to get away for the weekend— gathering gear, the car or van packed, the dog barking with excitement, and the most important things go in the car or backpack last- the water bottle, the car keys, the phone, and a pair of s…