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Why Independent Eyewear Is Having Its Moment

It's subtle, the way most real shifts in taste are, but it's there: a growing impatience with the obvious, a quiet refusal to reach for the same logo-stamped acetate that everyone else is wearing. After years of luxury conglomerates consolidating nearly every heritage eyewear brand […]

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It's subtle, the way most real shifts in taste are, but it's there: a growing impatience with the obvious, a quiet refusal to reach for the same logo-stamped acetate that everyone else is wearing.

After years of luxury conglomerates consolidating nearly every heritage eyewear brand […]

Something is shifting in the way people buy sunglasses.

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It's subtle, the way most real shifts in taste are, but it's there: a growing impatience with the obvious, a quiet refusal to reach for the same logo-stamped acetate that everyone else is wearing. After years of luxury conglomerates consolidating nearly every heritage eyewear brand […] Something is shifting in the way people buy sunglasses.

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