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Industry News Friday 23rd of July 2021
Hans Anders and PTTRNS Introduce Online Eyewear Recommender with AI

Hans Anders and PTTRNS.ai introduce a new online application in the optics market that uses a self-learning algorithm to give personal online eyewear advice based on a facial characteristics analysis. The advanced AI tool STYLE PTTRNS, developed by Du…

Industry News Friday 23rd of July 2021
ZEISS Engages Sponsorship with Birdability

ZEISS announces partnership with Birdability, a newly created non-profit organization based in the U.S., but with global reach. Birdability has been formed to increase inclusion and access in the birding community and the outdoors. Birdability’s visi…

Industry News Wednesday 21st of July 2021
Luxexcel Launches Platform For Smartglasses Rx Lenses

Luxexcel announced its next-generation manufacturing platform, Luxexcel VisionPlatform? 7, which makes it possible for businesses to integrate prescription lenses into the production of smartglasses in their manufacturing facilities. VisionPlatform?…

Industry News Tuesday 20th of July 2021
Real People – Eye Respect TROIS III

An optical line created according to principles of timeless, heritage design, EYE RESPECT pays homage to the essence of vintage spectacles in their ophthalmic glasses collection, designed for men and women.Taking inspiration from a variety of expressi…

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 …