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Left: Mother hosts best: Standing in for her son at the Alain Mikli party, the designer’s mother, Lucie Mikli, made the rounds with Mikli’s Caroline de Saint Andre and Cedric Moreau.
Right: All set for a successful show on opening day were Sàfilo Group’s Debby Kelly and Claudio Gottardi. |
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Left: Luxottica Group’s Vittorio Verdun shows off the latest Predator sunglass from Ray-Ban featured in the soon-to-be released film “Men in Black II.”
Right: Star of Vision 2002 honorees: Kaoru Horikawa, Charmant Group; Cliff Bartow, LensCrafters/Luxottica Retail; Dean Butler, Sight Resource; Ed Greene, Carl Zeiss Optical and Winifried Mueller, Carl Zeiss. |
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Left: Spin with a View:
Ed DeRosa of Signet
Armorlite welcomes Barney Woythaler of 21st Century Optics to Signet’s reception at The View, the rotating restaurant atop the Marriott Marquis.
Right: Gerber Coburn’s John R. Hancock shows off the company’s new entry-level patternless-edging system. |
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Left: Getting equipped: Briot/Weco’s Don Adams, Joseph DeLapp and Etienne Sauvageot showcase the company’s Axcell Edger.
Right: Sans Pareil’s Steve Lipawsky and Tony Brave host boxing legend Joe Frazier and Steve Levenson of Kaiser Permanente to celebrate the company’s Everlast eyewear launch.
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Left: Victor Shanahan and Kara Meyer of Nouveau Eyewear celebrate the launch of Nickelodean Eyewear with special guest, Eliza from The Wild Thornberrys.
Right: AIT Industries’ Matt Vulich displays the Limited Gold Edition of the company’s Maxima Patternless Edging System. |
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Left: Karen Zappia and David Dean of first-time Expo exhibitor Live Eyewear.
Right: The Marcolin team was out in force for Expo East’s opening day: Paul Diaz-Asper with brothers Cirillo and Maurizio Marcolin. |
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Left: Art Waite of Winchester Optical, program chairman of the OLA, displayed the new OLA Lens Center.
Right: At Essilor’s party, Mike Daley and Cynthia Lee-Ryden of Essilor, spokesperson/author Diane Irons and Essilor’s Steve Shawler broadcast a message to partygoers from the television studio at the Nasdaq Marketsite. |
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Left: AO SOLA’s Mark Ashcroft and Karen Roberts of SOLA International chat with Jim Forte of DuPont Fluoroproducts about the new arrangement between SOLA and DuPont for use of the Teflon brand for A-R.
Right: Denice Nagel and Paul Nicholoff of California Optical brighten up the Expo show floor during set-up. |
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Left: Getting cozy with their Woolrich mascots, New York Eye’s Arthur Jankolovits and Charles Schmall are ready to meet the demands of Vision Expo visitors
Right: At its Expo booth, Mitani USA gave attendees three chances to win free eyewear and Takeo Kikuchi products; here, Yuki Inoure and Brad Brautman prepare to pick out the next winners. |
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Left: NexGen/Cobra Vision’s Tom Morrison, Gary Lafferty, and Pete Devine, seen here at a press conference, introducing Vision Expo East attendees to the company’s new NexGen lens-casting system.
Right: Essilor’s Mike Daley chats with Laura and Peter Frieder of Gentex Optics and Vision Council of America at the Star of Vision event. |
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Left: Latin American customers Octavio Becerra-Velez and Alvaro Chajin meet with DAC Vision’s Peter Rozin and Richard Bullwinkle to discuss the products of DAC’s newly acquired Rozin business.
Right: Seiko Optical’s Donna VanGreen unpacks one more box to get ready for opening day. |
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Left: In town representing
the American Optometric Association are Howard Braverman, OD; Pat Cummings, OD and
David Nelson, OD.
Right: A casual moment at The China Club for the Lantis team of Tim Swartz and Stu Chizen surrounding Docker’s licensing director, Michael Penn. |
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Right: Transitions Optical wrapped
up its Smart Moves Tour, to launch its new Next Generation photochromic lens, with a gala event at the Sheraton Hotel. Seiko Optical’s Mike Rybacki watches while Dave Cole of Transitions gets locked in thumb-cuffs, Houdini-style, by a magician at the party (yes, Dave eventually did
get out of the cuffs). |
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Left: Zeiss Optical’s Ed Greene and PRIO’s Jon Torrey announced the designed-by-Zeiss PRIO Browser lens for computer vision at Vision Expo East.
Right: Panayotis Sicaras with Mike Hundert and Veli-Matti Nurmi at Rem Eyewear’s booth.
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Left: The Children’s Vision Coalition outlined its goals during the Star of Vision reception: Norm Haffner, OD; Andrea Thau, OD; Scarlett Pildes, Allan Ritter, Andrea Gluck, Rosemary Clemens and Ralph Woythaler.
Right: Larry Sands and Christina Alvarado of Optical Shop of Aspen chat with Viva International’s
Harvey Ross. |
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Left: Full throttle: Rodenstock’s Jim Cox and Karla Santora check out the
company’s Porcsche Design line.
Right: Rick Elias of PPG Industries, co-host of Star of Vision with Jobson Publishing, welcomes visitors to the gala event held at the Rainbow Room.
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Left: At the UJA dinner from
B. Robinson Optical were Mel, Lori and Cliff Robinson.
Right: Fiftysomething... In celebration of the company’s 50s, Ultra Palm Optical will annually donate $5,000 to Prevent Blindness America until it reaches its goal of $50,000. Ultra Palm’s Brad Besner and Leonard Cohen with this year’s PBA donation.
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Left: Continental Ben-Glo’s Icek Benz and son Alvin Benz toast to the success of the company’s After Six collection.
Right: Preparing for opening day, Gerard Santinelli
and Steve Swalgen of Santinelli calibrate their drilling system for
rimless eyewear. |
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Left: Seiko’s Donna Van Green chats with Bernice Olivetti of Leonard Opticians in New York, and Philip Olivetti, president of Alain Mikli, at a dinner party held by Seiko.
Right: Helga and Helmut Igel of Neostyle reported strong booth traffic
during the show. |
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Left: Jane Seymour helps Marchon Eyewear execs Larry Roth, Jeff White and Al Berg promote Très Jolie Eyewear.
Right: Jim Harris and Jean Scott of Luxottica Group are all smiles about showgoers’ response to the Ray-Ban dancers’ interpretation of
“Men in Black II.” |
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