Blog

June 22, 2021June 17, 2021

CORE Summarizes BCLA CLEAR Guidance for Contact Lens Practitioners

The latest issue of Contact Lens Update, now available for free from the Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE), consolidates conclusions from the new British Contact Lens Association’s (BCLA) Contact Lens Evidence-based Academic Reports (CLEAR) initiative into an easy-to-read summary for contact lens practitioners.

“CLEAR brought together 10 committees and more than 100 authors from 16 countries to produce 300 pages of scientific review. This covered all aspects of contact lens practice, from routine fitting through to specialty lenses, management of complications, and future technology,” said Karen Walsh, CORE’s education team leader and editor of Contact Lens Update. “Our BCLA-commissioned summary of all ten sub-reports extracts and explains the insights most relevant for clinical practice in one simple guide.”

The CLEAR sub-report summary promotes best practice, evidence-based procedures and clinical decision making for contact lens patients. Found in the issue’s Feature Article section, each five-minute read provides an overview of key take aways by topic and a link to the comprehensive open access paper for further reading.

“It’s a lovely coincidence that Issue #60 of Contact Lens Update is being published during the 60^th anniversary of soft contact lens pioneer Otto Wichterle creating the very first hydrogel lenses in his kitchen. The CLEAR series paints a fascinating portrait of how far we have come in the past six decades, and the breathtaking developments on the horizon,” said Dr. Walsh.

Published six times per year, Contact Lens Update provides a global platform for unbiased clinical insights based in current research.

Click HERE for the full press release.

June 21, 2021June 21, 2021

Transitions Partners with Internationally-Recognized Quebec Painter AnnLo

Transitions Optical is partnering with AnnLo, an internationally known Quebec painter, who has opened her studio to create unique paintings inspired by depictions of vibrant colours in eyewear. Eye care professionals can also take advantage of free original June social content for their own Facebook and Instagram pages.

“Our new partnership with AnnLo demonstrates the beauty of colour by marrying AnnLo’s unique works with the vibrancy of Transitions^® lenses style colors lenses,” said Arnaud Rajchenbach, Marketing Manager at Transitions Optical. “We encourage our partners and customers to visit the Transitions Virtual Try On, which allows users to preview Transitions^® lenses style colors virtually before their appointment with an eye care professional.”

Updates on the partnership with AnnLo are available on the Transitions Optical Facebook and Instagram pages.

Click HERE for the full press release.

Tens: Sunglasses by Photographers, Launches Canadian Distribution

Tens, the UK sunglass brand founded in 2014 by three young and independent Photographers has announced a Canadian distribution agreement.

In partnership with Québec based distribution Vision JM, Tens will be distributed through exclusive optical and lifestyle retail partners and serve its Canadian customers. Tens made eyewear industry headlines in 2014 when the brand launched its debut filter lens, creating a warm and uplifting viewing experience inspired by its roots in photography and filmmaking.

Tens now bills itself as “the lens experience company”, specialising in multiple custom lenses designed to immerse the wearer in unique visual experiences; each featured in high quality and sustainably sourced eyewear developed with globally renowned partners in France, Italy and Australia.

Vision JM will manage the brand marketing, wholesale and customer service functions for Tens in the Quebec and Canadian markets.

Click HERE for the full press release.

June 18, 2021June 18, 2021

Specs and the City: Season 1

Over the past few years, SILMO and its partners have developed a range of event formats to complement the long-standing Paris trade fair, in response to the desire for new experiences, and the need to foster close ties and flexibility at optics industry trade fairs.

Travel restrictions and the long period without trade fairs brought about by the global pandemic inspired SILMO to create a new event format whose main focus is to maintain the truly special links that connect the optical community.

As large gatherings of people in a single exhibition space were banned, what if a city hosted multiple small spaces for quality individual meetings?

COPENHAGEN SPECS and SILMO introduce the latest addition to their family of events: SPECS AND THE CITY.

Over the course of a weekend, the participating brands and businesses will host clients and potential clients in showrooms that they have set up in one of the event’s partnering hotels located in a defined area to facilitate travel on foot or on bike.

SPECS AND THE CITY takes a fresh look at trade meetings and transforms them into a “unique experience in each of the host cities, which will be showing off all of their charms and treasures in order to welcome the optics-eyewear community”, explain the organisers.

SPECS AND THE CITY Season 1 is starting soon. Save the date:

− COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – AUGUST 20-22

− VALENCIA, SPAIN – OCTOBER 1-3

− ANTWERP, BELGIUM – OCTOBER 8-10

− COLOGNE, GERMANY – OCTOBER 16-18

− TALLIN, ESTONIA – OCTOBER 22-24

Click HERE for the press release.

June 18, 2021June 18, 2021

DaTE, the International Date with Avant-Garde Eyewear, Returns to Florence, Italy

DaTE, the international trade show featuring avant-garde eyewear is set to take place Saturday, September 11^th to Monday, September 13^th. The show returns to Florence, at the Stazione Leopolda.

After the 2020 edition (the only in-person industry event of the year), organization of the ninth edition is under way. It promises to be the pivotal place to conduct business and talk shop, the center of attraction for companies known for innovation and design and for blazing new trails in avant-garde eyewear on a global scale.

“We are faced with a new challenge in 2021,” explained Giovanni Vitaloni, President of DaTE. “Our aim is to send a strong message to the industry, mobilizing all of the industry movers and shakers who, thanks to their innovative prowess, embody the ability to build the future. We need all the strength and determination that our industry has demonstrated throughout this very long and complicated year. Only in tandem with exhibitors, buyers, opticians and the entire eyewear supply chain can we move the market and be the driver of growth in the coming years,” concluded Vitaloni.

More information available at dateyewear.com.

Click HERE for the full press release.