Kenzo And L’Amy Group End Eyewear Partnership

With the eyewear industry in full flux, French eyewear manufacturer L’Amy Group and Kenzo are parting ways.

Citing the “evolution of their respective business strategies,” the license agreement, which began in 2010, will end in December, Kenzo said Friday, adding that a new partner in the category will be announced in the new year.

The fashion house of KENZO was started in 1970 as Jungle Jap, a boutique in Paris at Galerie Vivienne where the founder Kenzo Takada, sold his handmade women’s collection. KENZO debuted its first men’s ready-to-wear collection in 1983, and its kids and home collections in 1987, followed by KENZO fragrances in 1988.