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L’Amy America Launch Four New Nicole Miller Ophthalmic Styles For Spring

April 18th, 2013

The four models take their cue from Nicole Miller’s Celtic theme, a theme which plays an important role in the Nicole Miller collection, and is a theme that is turned to for inspiration in the jewelry collection and in subtle elements on Nicole Miller’s accessory collections. The Celtic theme was an early obsession and appears as a signature detail on Nicole Miller’s fragrance, a bottle marked by its stunning elegance. Celtic elements are woven in the temple of the eyewear, from a subtle Celtic cross to a modern interpretation of the ancient symbol.

Broad
Three raised metal Celtic crosses in descending size are a modern interpretation of an ancient symbol, and the feature of the Nicole Miller Broad style. The Celtic theme is an important one in Nicole Miller and the NM Broad parlays the Celtic obsession brilliantly. Rich acetate colors and a modern eye shape complete this urban style. Size 51-15-135 and available in three colors: black, tortoise/chartreuse, and rose fade.

Bowery
The distinctive metal plate with raised Celtic cross topped by a shiny crystal is the feature of Nicole Miller’s Bowery style. The distinctive matte metal front combined with the textured acetate temples complement this thoroughly urban style. Size 53-15-130. Three modern colors: matte espresso/espresso, matte nude rose/rose, and matte indigo/black.

Downing
The important Celtic theme is boldly represented in the Nicole Miller’s Downing frame. The outline of the Celtic cross is translated as textured abstract raised metal crosses that play across the temple, complemented by the matte metal front. The end result is a striking style. Flex hinges for comfort. Size 50-17-135. Three colors: Matte black/olivine, matte chocolate/apricot, and matte aubergine/boysenberry.

Mercer
The bold shape of the Nicole Miller Mercer acetate style embodies the important Celtic theme with a raised abstract Celtic cross topped by a clear crystal and the balance of the temple studded with matte metal straight through the center of the temple. The beveled temples allow the rich color of the interior to peek through. The result is modern, gorgeous, with a touch of gothic. Size 51-16-135. Three colors: burgundy/tortoise, aubergine, olive horn.

About L’AMY America
L’AMY America is part of Groupe TWC-L’AMY – the largest accessory company in France. Established in 1810, the group develops eyewear for brands such as ANN TAYLOR, BALLY of SWITZERLAND, BALMAIN, CARVEN, CERRUTTI 1881, COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR, KENZO, NINA RICCI, PROENZA SCHOULER, ROCHAS, SONIA RYKIEL, SPERRY TOPSIDER, AND TED LAPIDUS , as well as its own house brands. Groupe TWC-L’AMY brings together eyewear, watches, handbags and jewellery under one international accessories company.

www.lamyamerica.com

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L’Amy America Introduces Bally of Switzerland Eyewear Collection to North America

April 10th, 2013

L’Amy America introduces Bally of Switzerland’s first luxury eyewear collection to North America with a rich offering of both sunglasses and ophthalmic frames, for men and women. Targeting the Asian luxury market, the new collections will offer a perfect and comfortable universal fit.

The new range captures the aesthetic of Bally’s accessory and ready-to-wear collections whilst reinterpreting the Swiss brand’s iconic elements: the red and white Trainspotting stripe, the Mountain Goat motif, the Bally Crest and the Block-B are all included as the eyewear collection’s signature details.

With shapes incorporating Luxury to Office and Sport and Casual designs, the new sunglass and optical models ensure that every occasion is represented in-line with Bally’s principles of timeless elegance and innovative design.

The men’s collection centerpiece is a classic aviator model featuring a bridge nosepiece and temples lined in leather. Bally’s Block-B is crafted from metal mounted inside the temples placed at the end tip. Using titanium or leather frames, a variety of shapes ensures a mix of modern and vintage appeal, from contemporary thin, rectangular frames to classic tortoiseshell.

The sophisticated feminine style of the women’s collection is best highlighted by a key oval acetate frame whose temples are enhanced by intertwined leather and metal rings that mirror the elegance of a Bally handbag chain. Other models feature oversized shapes including square or rounded, butterfly frames or cat-eye styles.

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L’Amy America will begin North American distribution of Bally’s luxury Eyewear Collection in select luxury optical dispensaries and boutiques, as well as finer department stores in March 2013. L’Amy America President Stephen Rappoport states “we are very pleased to launch a collection that epitomizes the craftsmanship excellence and luxurious attributes of the Bally of Switzerland brand. Our goal is to bring to the luxury eyewear market not only beautiful product and packaging, but also an entire collection that addresses the needs of the discerning Asian consumer.”

Each sunglass and ophthalmic frame is beautifully packaged with cleaning cloth/micro pouch inside a soft-finish leatherette, clam shell case, detailed with Trainspotting trim, or classic Bally logo in metal appliqué, or embossed Bally block logo. Sunglasses are also boxed for exquisite gifting presentation. A full range of visual merchandising tools are available with frame purchases of 12 pieces or more, such as logo plaques, counter cards, window posters, shopping bags, and 3-piece window displays.

About Bally
Bally’s hallmark is the crafting of exquisite leather. For 160 years, Bally has been globally recognized for its ‘Swiss Made’ quality and contemporary style. Timeless hand workmanship traditions continue to imbue collections with great style and substance. Born in Switzerland in 1851, Bally has been at the very center of European leather craftsmanship since artisans began combining ancient skills with new technology. The cohesion of form and function was a passion of Bally’s founder, Carl Franz Bally, a global pioneer in shoe design, construction and production. In 1976, Bally extended its product range to include handbags, leather accessories and ready-to-wear which have become an integral part of Bally’s modern collections for the global luxury market. Every product is testament to Bally’s passion for perfection: the punctuation of a brogue; the soft touch of a bag’s leather; the classic silhouette of a sartorial jacket; the elegant contour of a Bally heel. Now owned by LABELUX Group, Bally celebrated its 160th anniversary in 2011, making it the world’s most enduring luxury brand. With ever increasing global operations and a robust eCommerce business, Bally continues to go from strength-to-strength every year. www.bally.com

About L’Amy America
L’Amy America is part of Groupe TWC-L’AMY – the largest accessory company in France. Established in 1810, the group develops eyewear for brands such as Ann Taylor, Bally of Switzerland, Balmain, Carven, Cerrutti 1881, Columbia Sportswear, Kenzo, Nicole Miller, Nina Ricci, Proenza Schouler, Rochas, Sonia Rykiel, Sperry Top-Sider and Ted Lapidus as well as its own house brands. Groupe TWC-L’AMY brings together eyewear, watches, handbags and jewelry under one international accessories company. More information is available at www.lamyamerica.com


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L’Amy America Introduces Two New Styles In The Nicole Miller Eyewear Collection

February 20th, 2013

L’Amy America is launching two new ophthalmic styles for Spring 2013 in the Nicole Miller brand.

Both models, the NM Barrow and NM Baxter, continue to reflect the Nicole Miller brand’s codes with a strong identity, in keeping with the Nicole Miller style. The bike theme, so prevalent in Nicole Miller’s ready-to-wear collection and accessories, is exemplified in the Nicole Miller Barrow frame. The bike plate and lock is beautifully interpreted in an open work double U accented with 3 crystals and four rivets on the plate for a tough-feminine flair. The textured acetate temples invoke Nicole Miller’s renown for patterns, and is modern in design. The Nicole Miller Barrow comes in three color: matte black/black, matte chocolate brown/bown, and matte eggplant/purple.

NM Barrow

NM Baxter

Three raised metal Celtic crosses are a modern interpretation of an ancient symbol, and the feature of the Nicole Miller Baxter style. The Celtic theme is an important one in Nicole Miller and the Nicole Miller Baxter parlays the Celtic obsession brilliantly. Rich acetate colors and a modern eye shape complete this urban style. The Nicole Miller Baxter comes in three colors: black, blond tortoise, and brown/light blue gradient.

About L’AMY America
L’AMY America is part of Groupe TWC-L’AMY – the largest accessory company in France. Established in 1810, the group develops eyewear for brands such as Ann Taylor, Bally of Switzerland, Balmain, Carven, Cerrutti 1881, Columbia Sportswear, Kenzo, Nina Ricci, Proenza Schouler, Rochas, Sonia Rykiel, Sperry Topsiders, Ted Lapidus, as well as its own house brands. Groupe TWC-L’AMY brings together eyewear, watches, handbags and jewellery under one international accessories company.

www.lamyamerica.com

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Four New Ophthalmic Styles From The Columbia Eyewear Extended Size Collection

December 5th, 2012

L’Amy America, a division of global eyewear group TWC-L’Amy, announces the worldwide launch of a new 4 model ophthalmic series, expanding upon its highly successful Columbia Eyewear Extended Size collection. The new models feature pure titanium frame fronts, combined with H-90™ injection-molded temple stems.

“We’ve combined the ultimate in frame comfort and frame performance with our signature Extended Size fit. Titanium strength and H-90™ featherweight comfort together create a frame perfectly suited for outdoor adventure and the urban commute alike,” said Worldwide Business Unit Manager Connie Reiss. “We recognize that outdoor consumers of all shapes and sizes have similar expectations when it comes to ophthalmic frames—exceptional fit and comfort, true performance, and sport-styling—all factors critically important to our end-user. Columbia’s Extended Size titanium series exceeds these expectations” said Reiss.

Buck Mountain

Aldridge Park

The new series is comprised of 4 unique shapes, named Aldridge Park (rimless rectangle), Bennet Pass (sport oval), Black Butte (rimless modified rectangle), and Buck Mountain (narrow rectangle). Temple stems are first constructed of Columbia’s exclusive H-90™ material for featherweight comfort and extreme durability, and then bi-injected with Gripol™ rubber inserts for super soft touch and extra grippage against the skin. Bi-color temple designs with earth-colored frame fronts provide safe color choice for the more conservative taste, but still enough sport accent for the more trend conscious. Sizes range: 57 to 59 eye, with 150 temples.

 

About Columbia Sportswear
Columbia, the flagship brand of Portland, Oregon-based Columbia Sportswear Company, has been creating innovative apparel, footwear, accessories and equipment for outdoor enthusiasts since 1938. Columbia has become a billion-dollar global brand by channeling the company’s passion for the outdoors, and an innovative spirit of “trying stuff”, into technologies and performance products that keep people warm, dry, cool and protected year-round. To learn more, please visit the company’s website at www.columbia.com.

About Groupe TWC-L’AMY
L’Amy America is part of Groupe TWC-L’AMY – the largest accessory company in France. Established in 1810, the group develops eyewear for brands such as Bally of Switzerland, Balmain, Carven, Cerrutti 1881, Columbia Sportswear, Kenzo, Nicole Miller, Nina Ricci, Proenza Schouler, Rochas, Sonia Rykiel, Sperry Top-Sider, Ted Lapidus and Ann Taylor, as well as its own house brands. Groupe TWC-L’AMY brings together eyewear, watches, handbags and jewelry under one international accessories company. More information is available at www.lamyamerica.com.


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Alain Mikli International Announces Launch of Jean Paul Gaultier by Mikli Eyewear Collection

December 13th, 2011

Alain Mikli International is thrilled to announce the launch of the first ever Jean Paul Gaultier by Mikli eyewear collection. The collection, created between two long-time friends, will launch in the U.S. market in January 2012.

The history of the partnership between Gaultier and Mikli began in 1978, when both designers founded their respective design houses. Both men soon found success and in October 1984, beneath the enchanted tents of the Louvre’s “cour carrée” during Paris Fashion Week, these two iconoclasts were brought together when Gaultier was dressing and Mikli accessorizing; an instant bond was formed. After a more than twenty year friendship, the Paris tailor and the frame modelist have finally decided to create together with the result of that collaboration coming to fruition as the Jean Paul Gaultier by Mikli eyewear collection.

Jean Paul Gaultier was born in ’52, and spent Thursdays with his grandmother in Arcueil. With her wardrobes and magazines full of women in netted stockings, his grandmother’s apartment became his private university. When he was punished for having sketched a Folies Bergères dancer while in class, his friends applauded him: the drawing was brilliant. The punishment turned into a revelation: this is what his calling would be.

Alain Mikli was born in ’55, in the Rhône region. His father was an orchestra conductor and his mother a seamstress who kept “the” luxury ready-to-wear boutique of Grenoble. He moved to Paris at the age of 12 and enrolled in the Fresnel Lycée, which specializes in optics. When the young ladies there complained that their glasses were crutches for the cross-eyed, Alain drew his first creations and began to dream of a world where glasses would be an object of desire.

From the Glitter Years to the Meeting of a Sailor and a Pair of Glasses
By the mid 80s, Mikli colors, amplifies, and invents the camera glasses, the dragonfly glasses, the two-toned lens glasses. Mikli has accessorized fashion shows for Chantal Thomass, Donna Karan, Sonia Rykiel, Jil Sander, Claude Montana, Anne-Marie Berretta. His fans include Elton John, Andy Warhol, Wim Wenders, Samuel Lee Jackson, Jack Nicholson. “If you don’t have the physique of a model, you can still wear models’ glasses,” Mikli stated, in a slogan which has since become iconic.

Gaultier has created costumes for movies by Greenaway, Pedro Almodovar, Luc Besson, Jean Jeunet, and corsets Madonna’s body. His fans include Rossy de Palma, Annie Lennox, Arielle Dombasle, Mylène Farmer, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga. “If you don’t have the physique of a model, you can still wear models’ clothes,” Gaultier said as he dressed those who are short or overweight, tattooed or pierced.

Meetings are rarely due to coincidence, and Gaultier and Mikli seemed destined to meet…

From Engagement to Commitment – Two Iconoclasts United
Gaultier and Mikli constantly surprise, inventing and reinventing, hand in hand in close collaboration delivering the promise of beauty and wonder somewhere between inventiveness, modernity and liberty. Their new eyewear collection consists of 20 models (12 eyeglasses and 8 sunglasses), shaded in three colors. There is no outer logo to the collection yet a familiarity among the models which are best described as unpredictable and dramatic. Imagine: chic, shock, and timeless all at once. These are “frames to see as well as to be seen”, with the added benefit of comfort and the technical expertise for which Alain Mikli eyewear is synonymous.

The collection will be available beginning in January 2012 at Alain Mikli boutiques (www.mikli.com) as well as select independent luxury optical retailers nationwide.

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About Alain Mikli
Launched by Frenchman Alain Mikli in 1978, the Mikli brand has become synonymous with luxury eyewear worldwide. Alain Mikli combines stylish but comfortable design with unique, high quality materials to create a look that is both practical and very elegant. Today, its stylish frames and sunglasses are worn by A-list celebrities and movie stars such as Samuel L. Jackson and Meryl Streep. Today there are 25 Alain Mikli shops worldwide: Paris, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, New-York, New Jersey, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Helsinki, Hong-Kong, Macau, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Taipei and Milan and San Francisco. For more information, visit Alain Mikli’s website: www.mikli.com


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