Oct. 3, 2023 — Silmo has announced the winners of the 2023 Silmo d’Or Awards during the 30th edition of the optical trade show, which took place Sept. 29-Oct. 3 at the Paris Nord Villepinte in Paris, France.
 
Winners were announced on Saturday, Sept. 30, by a panel of judges that included Eyecare Business editor-in-chief Erinn Morgan. Click here for a full list of nominees. For coverage from the event, visit Eyecare Business on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.
 
Below are the 2023 Silmo d’Or Award winners, listed by category:
 
Children: Etnia Barcelona with Ba-Baaaang !, a style in the Cartoons for Kids collection featuring a temple flex, which reduces the design’s metal consumption by 20%.
           
Sport: Marchon Eyewear with Nike’s Flyfree, a sunglass frame derived from at least 40% castor bean oil with interchangeable lens options.
                                                                                                           
Vision:

• Essilorluxottica with Varilux XR Series, progressive lenses with behavioral artificial intelligence technology designed to predict the wearer’s visual behavior based on each individual prescription.
• Morrow with Morrow eProgressives, glasses that use advanced lens-in-foil technology to mimic eye focus by reducing passive lens power, enabling the expansion of distant and intermediate vision, corridor clarity, and depth perception.                        

                                                                                               
Material/Equipment: Saargos with Quicksee Free from Plenoptika, a portable refracto-keratometer that uses wavefront aberrometry technology combined with dynamic vision controlled by artificial intelligence.
 
Optical Frame Brands & Labels: Odlm-Seaport with CC1086 Vedo from Carven, an oversized square optical style that combines two acetates, crystal green and speckled green, featuring metal details on the bridge and temples.
                                                           
Sunglasses Brands & Labels: Odlm-Seaport with CC4091S Nove from Carven, a square sunglass style with bevel and openwork gilded metal details on the temples.                             
 
Technological Innovation in Eyewear: Sbrusset & Co. with Meyro-Nde Op, eyewear generated by artificial intelligence interpreting a scan to create frames that are tailor-made to the individual.
                                                                       
Sunglasses Eyewear Designer: Andy Wolf with Blossom Col.05, a sunglass style crafted with Acetate Renew, inspired by the wildflower meadow that surrounds the Andy Wolf headquarters.
 
Optical Frame Eyewear Designer: Cutler and Gross with 9126 Lunettes Cat-Eye, an archive frame first worn by Elton John, now modernized with a curved browline, angular lugs, and chamfering.
 
Jury’s Special Prize:

• Lafont with Ouvrage, an embroidered frame based on the Haute Couture concept developed by Thomas Lafont combined with the embroidery stylings of Satoshi Sekimoto.
• Veronika Wildgruber with Lane, a feminine cat-eye shape featuring lenses with a soft, sunset tint.