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Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
1950s singer Buddy Holly helped popularise Wayfarers. Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and James Dean, Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements.
Luxottica owns not only a large portfolio of brands (over a dozen [53]) such as Ray-Ban and Oakley but also retailers such as Sunglass Hut, Lenscrafters and Oliver Peoples, the optical departments at Target, and (formerly) Sears, as well as key eye insurance groups including the second largest glasses insurance firm in the US, EyeMed. It has ...
The existing models of Ray-Ban Meta glasses let customers capture photos and videos, live stream on Instagram, and accept video calls. The glasses have an LED light that emits a flash when a photo ...
That's a low bar, given how deeply its first generation of the Ray-Ban glasses from 2021 disappointed — selling only about 300,000 pairs, less than 10% of which were still in use last summer.
F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, with AN 6531 sunglasses (1942) Aviator sunglasses are a style of sunglasses that was developed by a group of American firms. The original Bausch & Lomb design is now commercially marketed as Ray-Ban Aviators, although other manufacturers also produce aviator-style sunglasses.
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Deadpool & Wolverine, now the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, is set to hit digital retailers (Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango) on Oct. 1 before releasing on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and ...