EYEVAN – A classic born anew

In 1972, under the concept of “eyewear for dressing as a fashion accessory”, EYEVAN was born as Japan’s first fashion eyewear brand. Design born from the style and tranquility of Japanese culture, precision craftsmanship lauded worldwide lies at the heart, products focusing on the fun of wearing glasses as a fashion accessory, began a journey across the sea and out to the world in 1985, under the aesthetic eye of one eyewear store in Los Angeles. Now, with experience and achievements, cultivated over more than a quarter of a century, the hands of master Japanese craftsmen put forth the latest technology, dressed in style. A classic born anew.

Creating new value

We aim to constantly createnew value in order to transmit and provide a comfortableand prosperous lifestyle to the world through eyewear.

Eyewear they think is not only called as a generic term for optical frames and sunglasses but also as a central existence among fashion items from the characteristic that it is put on a face. They wish to share joy and excitement in the relationship with many people including customers, business partners and local people through the eyewear. For that reason, they return to the origin of their group, refine the style found by their predecessors, and by fusing in time, new value will be created and that accumulation will be sublimated into lifestyle. It is their mission that eyewear created by Japan’s warm and sensitive sensibility impresses people around the world and creates new value.

Improving quality, technology and planning ability
Creating of a challenging spirit

They have not only provided products and services but also delivered a comfortable and rich lifestyle that enrich people’s minds. It is something that emanates from appreciation of all people involved in us. They inherited craftsmanship, fused new technologies, and created new value for the future. Each of them aims to create their own new value by having a high will and continuous challenging.

Company that can make everyone happy

They are committed to creating value for customers, employees, business partners and society. How to behave to make customers happy and impressed, how to act in order for employees to work vigorously with a smile, how to act in order to be trusted by business partners, how to act to contribute to the society, always keeping these in mind as a standard when doing various activities, they aim to be a company that can make everyone happy.

Made by artists of crafts

They think eyewear MADE IN JAPAN mainly in Sabae, Fukui Prefecture can be said to be a traditional craft product now rather than an industrial product. With the production and hospitality of Japan that they are proud of, they will disseminate and provide to the world, and they will continue to proceed with further innovation and challenge aiming at creating new value all the time.

EYEVAN

The collection was temporarily paused, but restarted in 2018. It has evolved into a brand offering a wide range of eyewear to meet every objective and situation. The collection , with contemporary interpretation on the base of the huge archives including past designs, molds and manufacturing methods EYEVAN holds, is made up of products that are compatible with designs reflecting the times and productivity as an industrial product.

EYEVAN 7285

Eyewear that does not have technical restrictions in the manufacturing process and combines traditional manufacturing methods and new technologies with free ideas that are not caught in the past. Established the unique identity with beautiful details and highly sophisticated designs. Eyewear, created by hand work of limited artisans even in Sabae with high technique, and carefully made through about 400 processes of work, is technologically crafted to detail.

10 eyevan

Based on the idea that a beautiful tool is a collection of beautiful parts. New screws are developed and each part is fundamentally reviewed for designing eyewear. Thus, this eyewear brand is created by an approach that has never been before. Hirotaka Nakagawa, designer, embodied the design and functionality that seems to be purely beautiful as a concept of “ Beautiful Tool” based on his aesthetic sense.

Eyevol

New category eyewear brand with EYEVAN’s universal design plus scene-less functionality. Combining the latest machine-made with manual work by Japanese craftsmen, realized durability and lightness corresponding to the active scenes.

Video: EYEVAN 7285 Fukui movie

Source: EYEVAN Website