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Candies Girls

Viva International Group Launches Candies Girls Collection

Viva International Group introduces a group of new optical styles just for kids from the CANDIE'S Eyewear collection. The grouping is exclusively for girls ages eight through 12. The butterfly-themed styles take flight with dynamic colors and playful adornments that express the free-spirited nature of today's CANDIE'S Girl. The new grouping consists of four styles, C Hannah, C Hazel, C Sade, and C Scarlett. The new styles are available in a range of multi-colored tones and soft metallic colors and offer children's eyewear options that are fashionable yet kid-friendly in design.

Features such as a color-filled butterfly appliqué that highlights each end piece coordinates with the CANDIE'S signature logo, while translucent and solid color tones provide a rich variety of hues in metals and plastic.

INFO: 800-345-VIVA, vivagroup.com

Red Alert

Luxottica Presents Prada Linea Rossa Optical Collection

Leveraging developments in sports equipment technologies, the new Prada Linea Rossa Optical Collection from Luxottica employs active sport features such as advanced materials, rubber nosepads, and temple tips for high-performance grip and fit. Blending a casual look in a color palette of army green, bone, dark brown, black, white, and red, as well as semi-transparent acetates in red, blue, green, brown, and opaline, the models feature technological touches such as injections of plastic and rubber in the same mold, integrated flex hinges, and suspended lenses. Extra details, such as anti-fogging air vents along the top edge of some models, and temple tips with rubber end caps on the inside, make the collection sporty. A launch event, Uniform Vision, was held in Athens to celebrate the new collection. The event featured 60 mannequins dressed in identical outfits and the full range of the new optical eyewear line.

INFO: 516-484-3800, www.luxottica.com

GO Lil' Dawgs

ZYLOWARE UNVEILS RJ DAWGS

Randy Jackson, or the "Dawg," is taking his cool style to the next generation with the launch of his latest Randy Jackson Eyewear. RJ Dawgs are designed with a young feel and fit for urban and urban-styled suburban American guys between the ages 16 and 35. Sporting striping, inlay metal designs, cut-outs, and split temples, the frames are offered in sheet-cut stainless steel, monel eyewire, and handcrafted zyl. Spring hinges and snap-in nosepads improve comfort. RJ Dawgs cases and signature plaques are made from 100 percent recycled plastic.

INFO: 800-765-3700, www.zyloware.com

With a Kiss

MCGEE'S NEW XOXO HITS THE TOWN

McGee Group's new contemporary, day-to-evening eyewear collection, XOXO, provides high-fashion designs for the 18- to 40-year-old women's market. Rolled out with ophthalmic and sunglass options, the Hypnotic and Ignite 14-piece collection is a mix of optical and sunglass designs that feature intense colors, embellishments, and logo treatments, animal prints, bold and edgy eye shapes, a fashionable color palette, polarized lenses, and Rxable frame designs.

INFO: 800-966-2020, www.mcgeegroup.com

Ready to Wear

NOUVEAU EYEWEAR ROLLS OUT PHOEBE COUTURE EYEWEAR

Nouveau Eyewear has launched Kay Unger's latest line, the Phoebe Couture eyewear collection. Tailored for fit and comfort, the Phoebe Couture collection translates 20-something fashions into eyewear using vibrant colors, vintage draping, and flouncy hemlines. The line offers both ophthalmic and sunwear for young women. The sunwear features polarized lenses for enhanced clarity and sun protection.

INFO: 800-292-4342, www.nouveaueyewear.com