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I know for a fact that glasses frames that say ‘made in Italy’ are injection moulded in Shenzhen and the ‘making’ refers to the lenses being added in Italy.
Exactly. A good friend works for a very large designer sunglasses company. They make glasses for huge brands with > 300 quid price tags. All from the same place and then finished in more glamorous locations. She gets cost price glasses for about 20 quid a pair.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I used to go to Shenzhen to buy glasses and all the black market retailers there were very open about where their frames came from. The markup on brands like Oliver Peoples etc must be insane.
At £20 cost price, I assume the lenses are 95% of that. Injection moulding three bits of plastic can’t cost more than £1.
I wouldn’t mind but most current fashion glasses are rip offs of 50s/60s styles anyway.
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I know for a fact that glasses frames that say ‘made in Italy’ are injection moulded in Shenzhen and the ‘making’ refers to the lenses being added in Italy.