Safilo Opens Third Edition of Its Eyewear Product School
Tuesday, September 19 2017 | 00 h 00 min | News, Press Release
Padua, Italy – The third edition of the Safilo Eyewear Product School opens: a structured three-year apprenticeship, unique in the global eyewear industry, that blends the cutting-edge requirements of artisan mastery with an international business context.
Safilo founded the Eyewear Product School in 2015. In its academic year of 2017/18, this third edition also marks the upcoming 140th anniversary of Safilo’s craftsmanship origins that date back to 1878.
The Product School is part of Safilo’s sustainability strategy Product-People-Planet. It reflects the Group’s corporate commitment to enduring eyewear mastery blending tradition and innovation, technicity and creativity, manuality and imagination, and the development of modern eyewear artisanship. By entrusting new generations with its legacy, nurturing research, celebrating mastery and hand-making, and doing so in an international context, Safilo drives its very own contribution to meaningful skill building of new generations, and development of the eyewear industry.
Five young talents were selected from the more than 130 applications received.
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