Christian Roth and Eric Domège step down from their namesake brand
Designers Christian Roth and Eric Domège have stepped down from their eponymous and iconic brand Christian Roth, the subversive and acclaimed luxury fashion eyewear label founded in New York in 1983. Acquired by DITA Group in September 2015, the duo remained as exclusive design consultants for the brand for the last six years.
“We are sad for the ending of this amazing chapter but maintain an immense amount of pride for our legacy of work and excitedly welcome the opportunity for change and newness.” said Eric Domège, co-founder of Christian Roth Eyewear. “We look forward to staying close to DITA and their brands. Our four decades of experience and passion to create for the luxury eyewear industry will allow us to consult on design, marketing, and brand positioning under our Miami-based Optical Affairs.
“DITA is extremely proud of having Christian Roth in our portfolio of brands,” said Micky Dhillon, owner of DITA Eyewear. “We look forward to maintaining an ongoing relationship with Christian and Eric, who we consider close friends and family of DITA.”
About DITA
DITA: A Category of One. A definition you can’t own, you can only earn. And DITA has earned it over 25 years. Founded in 1995, DITA reinvented eyewear by transcending its conventions, creating a discreet luxury with product ranging from bold character frames to new interpretations of timeless shapes through innovative technology. With over 25 years in design and partners at the highest levels of manufacturing, DITA’s expertise is unparalleled, earning a coveted reputation as a true leader in optical innovation. DITA has had the unique pleasure of serving the world’s most discerning clientele, challenging the old guard, and forging singular relationships within culture, style, sport, and entertainment; affirming the brands position as individual as the product creates.
About Christian Roth and Eric Domège
Since its inception in 1983, Christian Roth Eyewear has reveled in its hard-earned reputation as one of the world’s leading optical designers for subverting the conventions of luxury fashion. Roth, born in Germany, and Domège from France met in New York City and founded Optical Affairs in 1983 where their designs first appeared on the runway and at Bergdorf Goodman and were quickly hailed by the fashion community as fresh talents that would go on to change the course of luxury eyewear. Throughout the eighties and nineties, the brand collaborated on custom runway eyewear with fashion luminaries such as Chloé, Helmut Lang, Isaac Mizrahi, Jean Paul Gaultier, Marc Jacobs, and Rifat Ozbek, and worked with Michael Kors and Karl Lagerfeld in the new millennial on their lines of fashion eyewear.
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These and other early successes earned Christian Roth an invitation to join the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1990 – a first for an eyewear designer – and became a founding executive member of Eyewear Designers of the CFDA (edCFDA) in 2014. The Christian Roth name has become synonymous with luxury eyewear featuring innovative silhouettes, techniques, colorations, flawless design, and craft worn on numerous tastemakers, and appear consistently in top international fashion publications. The subversive legacy that Christian Roth and Eric Domège have forged for almost 40 years has never been more relevant than it is today as a new generation rejects the racial, gender, and class labels that once confined designers and their customers.
