The Ferragamo responsible eyewear line makes its debut: new women’s glasses in materials with low environmental impact for both frames and packaging. The SF1023S rectangular sunglasses deliver timeless allure with their oversize silhouette, bold lines and shaded lenses. The Gancini print and classic Ferragamo logo decorate the arms, in enamel-effect metallic gold and rose gold paint. Available in Black, Ivory and tortoiseshell.
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Munich, as a trade show location, offers
security and normality with its infrastructure and well-known facilities. For
its part, opti has always been known for its clear hall structure enabling easy
orientation and efficient trade show visits. From January 14 to 16, 2022, opti
2022 will be returning to its four-hall concept.
opti will remain opti. This motto also applies and especially so to the new
start next January. Halls C1 to C4 will convey the original opti atmosphere and
give visitors that “familiar feeling” for the industry event at the start of
the year.
“This hall concept and hall layout will make the trade show a great success for the whole industry at this time because, based on the idea of getting back to our roots, we can guarantee the familiar opti atmosphere while the tried and trusted structures and pathways facilitate smooth-running and focussed trade show visits,” explained opti Exhibition Director Bettina Reiter.
“Returning to the tried and tested”
Bettina Reiter is clearly delighted about the return to the four-hall concept
for the next opti trade show: “On the one hand, we are going to think new, act
new and, above all, start new at the next opti. This is exemplified, for
example, in our concept of the opti FORUM XT. But on the other hand, in
focusing on the essentials we will be returning to the tried and tested to
facilitate actual encounters and business-related networking without making any
additional compromises after what has been such a long time for us all. The
sector wants to meet up and do business and we are making that possible in
January 2022.”
Source: opti
The Specs eyewear fair concept will, together with SILMO, launch a new event dedicated to independent eyewear in Barcelona on May 7-8, 2022.
In line with the recognized positioning of Copenhagen Specs, the only trade fair in Scandinavia that provides opticians and retailers with a great mix of what the independent eyewear scene has to offer, Barcelona Specs will create a new platform for Southern Europe optical stores.
The eyewear fair concept is known for the small booths in a great simple design, focus on the product and a relaxed atmosphere. Barcelona Specs will take place in the heart of Barcelona city in the Italian Pavilion, Fira Montjuic, Plaça d’Espanya.
Morten Gammelmark, Founder/CEO of Barcelona Specs says: “We are very happy to finally launch Barcelona Specs after the long period with Covid. Barcelona is already a key point in the eyewear industry with many eyewear brands and designers, so we are very happy to invite all trendy eyewear brands to showcase their products to Spanish and international visitors we believe, will attend Barcelona Specs.”
Blackfin celebrates 50 years in business and the inauguration of its new Black Shelter headquarters ‒ a futuristic building that nearly triples the space in the existing Taibon Agordino location, surrounded by the Belluno Dolomite mountains.
This win-win was proudly celebrated by Blackfin during an event with local and regional authorities, its skilled artisans, employees and friends of the company in attendance. In addition to Nicola Del Din, CEO, and Giancarlo Recchia, CFO, also participating in the ceremony was Maria Luisa Pramaor who, in 1971, had the courage to open a small artisan eyewear finishing workshop, setting in motion what today is a firmly established local business with turnover forecast to reach 12 million euro by the end of 2021.
A company whose history exudes consistency, confidence and tenacity, but was not spared hard times, and they peaked in 2007; that’s when Del Din met Giancarlo Recchia, who believed in him and in his entrepreneurial vision.
“Today, we are celebrating madness,” began Del Din, in his words to the guests, “the madness many credited us with for deciding to build our headquarters here, on this spot, and the madness of Giancarlo for deciding to believe in this company that, in the opinion of many, seemed on the brink of financial ruin.”
The new headquarters, named Black Shelter, is a further expansion of the original building, which was renovated in 2016. Today, it houses about 100 employees, between offices and production, where everything is done in-house, more than doubling the production area to cope with growing market demand.The building itself is a true green facility, the first in the Veneto region to be certified as a Casa Clima Work & Life structure, certified to meet the three pillars of sustainability – ecological, economic and socio-cultural – in other words, workplace wellbeing.
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SILMO PARIS welcomed cheerful professionals who were thrilled to gather, converse, do business, show and share in the incredible energy of the optical and eyewear industry.
“We were uncertain we would succeed, but we were also convinced that the trade fair would have to occur to get real-life business rolling again,” says Amélie Morel, Chairwoman of SILMO Paris. “We are the first great international trade fair in our sector to have reopened, and we felt a form of responsibility to succeed in organising this gathering of all the industry’s professionals. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the companies, partners, exhibitors and visitors who contributed to the triumph of this event.”
After long months in virtual mode, the professionals indeed affirmed the necessity of seeing each other again at a trade fair, a not-to-be-missed crossroads for innovation and creativity, expertise and knowledge, discovery and discussion. In a reduced format featuring a bright setting of stimulating yellow and futuristic orange, SILMO PARIS assembled all the elements that make it attractive and unique: its five-star reception, the SILMO d’OR awards, SILMO NEXT, TRENDS by SILMO, SILMO TV, and more.
500 exhibitors were present, principally of European origin, since the usual Asian representatives (from China, Japan and Hong Kong) were prevented from travelling. Nearly 19,000 visitors – 63% French and 37% foreign – headed for Paris-Nord Villepinte to immerse themselves once again in the festive and yet very business-like atmosphere of this trade fair.
While SILMO NEXT – the marketplace of the future – unveiled the latest frames trends and addressed concrete futurology themes (CSR, new materials, responsible production, connected glasses, and so on), the SILMO d’OR awards promoted the best in creation and innovation. Jean-Christophe Leblanc, Jury President of this 2021 edition, pointed out the great diversity and extent of the applications submitted, “in terms of shapes, designs, colours, materials and expertise. We brought special attention to the creativity and novelty of the models presented. There were a lot of designs that we fell in love with, and we had a lot of discussions, but in the end, the models we selected were all natural winners.”
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