Optical retailers spend an enormous amount of time selecting inventory for their locations, not to mention the monetary investment that is involved. Isn’t it only fitting that the same amount of care is taken in protecting your investment?
Etnia Barcelona means ‘ethnicity Barcelona’ in Catalan. The name, style and story, all very much represents the essence of Barcelona, said Sophie Pottecher, Etnia’s Asia-Pacific sales manager who was visiting Auckland with CMI Optical’s Brad Boult.
Eyewear giant Safilo Group has signed a 10-year agreement with iconic football player David Beckham to secure the global rights to produce and distribute David Beckham sun and prescription glasses.
Hungarian Tipton Eyeworks has teamed up with coffee giant Nespresso to launch a new, eco-friendly eyewear collection made from the company’s recycled capsules.
Whether you’ve been in the optical world for years or you’ve simply been on the job a few months, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered a less than ideal customer.
This month we’ve included lots of exciting news from the European spring collections with metal and acetate combos continuing in popularity. We’ve also highlighted two gorgeous new collections for the little ones.
Building on its popular sunglass range and after announcing it was moving into optical in the middle of last year, Maui Jim’s full optical collection has finally arrived on New Zealand shores.
English punk-rock musician William Michael Albert Broad, better known as Billy Idol, experienced an eye scare in the early 1980s when his contacts fused with his corneas after shooting the video to his hit song, Eyes without a face. Idol wrote about the incident in his auto-biography Dancing with my
For some optometrists and dispensing opticians, the idea of children in their practices sends shivers up their spines. All those little hands grasping at their beautiful frame displays or running amok amongst stock stands is the stuff of nightmares. But catering for kids could bring a whole new leas
A roundup of the latest style news including updates from Entourage of 7, Furla, Ogi Eyewear, ProDesign Denmark and Silhouette.
The inaugural LOFTxTEF Awards, a collaboration between Loft Eyewear Shows and The Eyewear Forum (TEF) online magazine, was hosted at Loft Studios in New York on 22 March.
Luxury means different things to different people, and it should. There is no cookie cutter way to describe it. In the eyewear industry, luxury presents itself as many things from diamonds to delivery service and everything in between, and offering top notch products and services can be key to setti
