Overview
- Emmanuel Macron wore mirrored aviators at the World Economic Forum, including indoors, with his office citing a broken blood vessel in his right eye.
- The glasses were identified as Henry Jullien’s Pacific S01, priced at about €659 and handmade in France.
- iVision Tech, which acquired Henry Jullien in 2023, saw its Milan-listed stock surge and briefly halted for excessive gains.
- CEO Stefano Fulchir said demand has spiked from the exposure and the company may boost annual output from roughly 100 to as many as 1,000 units.
- Ophthalmologists publicly weighed in, with France’s Vincent Dedes describing the issue as a subconjunctival hemorrhage and Italy’s Lucio Buratto suggesting uveitis as a possibility.