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Alexandra Peng Charton says she created TC Charton eyewear because glasses would often slip off her face. Asians typically have flatter bridges, higher cheekbones and wider temples.
As an executive at a Hong Kong company that made eyeglasses for the world's top fashion houses, Alexandra Peng Charton should have been a great brand ambassador.
But in her years as operations manager for the firm's European and South American divisions, Charton, who now lives in Mountain View, could never find glasses that fit - and not for lack of trying.
Eyeglasses tended to slide down her nose and rest on her cheeks, making it look as if she were wearing readers, not prescription lenses. The reason, she said, is simple: Most glasses are designed for Caucasian faces, whose noses have higher bridges, rather than Asian faces, which typically have flatter bridges, higher ...
"My Asian friends came to me to vent their frustrations," she said. "They'd blame themselves, asking, 'Why are my cheeks this way?' and thinking there was something wrong with themselves, like they needed plastic surgery. And I started to ask myself, 'Why am I working for a company whose products I can never wear?' "
From this dilemma, a new line was born: TC Charton eyewear, designed with Asian faces in mind. Charton, who distributes the line through Prologue Vision, the parent company she founded in Sunnyvale, appears to be ahead of the curve. She launched the line and its five original styles in the Bay Area in 2009. It has grow...
Oakley sunglasses offers an Asian-fit line on its website. Eyewear Envy, a Texas online purveyor of eyeglasses founded by a Bay Area optometrist, began offering Asian-fit frames last year. ClearVision Optical, a major manufacturer of eyewear, announced earlier this year its Global Fit collection, with adjustable frames...
But Charton said her line offers more than superficial improvements. Using technical knowledge gained during her years in the industry, her designs take into consideration the vertex distance (the distance from the eye to the lens) and the panascopic tilt (the angle of the frame on a patient's face) to ensure the weare...
Charton's line is stocked in 130 stores nationwide, including Avant Optometry in Menlo Park, Rockridge Optometry in Oakland and Invision Optometry on Fillmore Street, where co-owner Dr. Edna Lee is a fan.
"It has been hard to find frames that fit me," Lee said, "and I'm in the business."
The same was true for Yolanda Lew, a designer and photographer who was at Invision on a recent weekday with her husband, who was getting fitted for new frames. She happened to be wearing a pair of TC Charton aviator sunglasses purchased there in October.
"Aviators are hard for Asian faces," Lew said. "They don't look quite right. They fall down. I love these. They just fit my face."
Charton, who was prescribed her first pair of eyeglasses at age 11, has also designed styles for children and teens. Her company's frames, manufactured in China, are offered in colors such as brown, gray, plum and black, steering clear of bright colors (except for children's styles) that she said clash with Asian skin ...
And because Asians tend to have smaller eyelids and a greater distance between pupil and eyebrow than Caucasians, Charton said, she designs her frames with larger lenses and a slight curve on top, to better fill in the distance and flatter the eye in a way that sharp geometric shapes do not.
Still, cosmetics are not the most important factor, she said.
"If you take any existing style in any collection on the market and put in extra nose pads, that doesn't help," Charton said. "Eyeglasses are a medical device, and for any medical device to function properly, it has to fit."
Fruit of the Loom said yesterday that it would close a textile and apparel plant in Campbellsville, Ky., laying off more than 800 workers. Fruit of the Loom, which makes underwear, T-shirts and active wear under the Fruit of the Loom, BVD, Gitano and Munsingwear names, disclosed plans last November to lay off about 2,9...
Tattly Founder Tina Roth Eisenberg felt uninspired by the temporary tattoo offerings for her daughter, so she launched a platform for professional artists to sell needle-free creations.
Temporary art sounds like a tough sell. But for wearable art brand Tattly, designs don’t need to last forever to leave a mark.
Founded in 2011 by Swiss design blogger Tina Roth Eisenberg, the Brooklyn-based company sells fanciful, nontoxic temporary tattoos designed by professional artists around the world. Within a year or so of launching, Tattly received its 10,000th online order and kicked off a healthy wholesale business. Today, Tattly's t...
Tattly is known within the creative community for supporting independent designers—the company gives its 120-plus artists a portion of every sale. Recently, Tattly exceeded $1 million paid in artist royalties.
“Our strength is in creative capital and relationships with artists,” says Yng-Ru Chen, director of marketing and partnerships. Building an international artist roster helped Tattly significantly expand its product spread: from just 16 designs in 2011 to over 700 currently. Those designs run the gamut from sea otters i...
Creators hail from Cincinnati, Ohio to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, offering skills that are equally far and wide: pieces are crafted by children’s book illustrators, bloggers, toy designers, paper goods artisans and typeface designers, as well as Vogue and The National Gallery of Art.
Here, four artists discuss their collaboration with Tattly and share how creating temporary tattoos fits into their design careers.
A big part of being an artist is creating new work and in order to do this one must set aside some time when you're not earning money. I receive a royalty payment from Tattly every quarter which helps me do this. Tattly Founder Tina Roth Eisenberg refers to this "passive income” as the “secret sauce of every creative c...
I do love new challenges and exploring unfamiliar territory in my work. My work tends to be less focused on decoration or pure image-making and is more of an attempt at solutions that reflect a context, a medium. Some of my designs for Tattly illustrate this, as they are not reliant on a visual, but rather are explorat...
Companies like Tattly are so important. They help the design and creative industries thrive. Any exciting applications for our artwork help give it buzz. It keeps us in business and gives new life to our designs. I love the thought that somebody out there is wearing my art, even if it’s temporary.
The primary focus of my career is children’s book illustration. In addition, I license illustrations for products such as greeting cards, puzzles and fabrics. Temporary tattoos are a nice addition to this product list. They weren't something I thought of illustrating and I didn’t realize the potential tattoos had until...
Concern is growing for the welfare of a teenage girl who went missing early this morning.
Hayley Moore, aged 15, was last seen leaving the Austwick Walk area in Barnsley at 5am.
A South Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: "She hasn’t been seen since and officers are keen to find her to ensure her welfare.
"Hayley is about 5ft 10ins tall and of a slim build. She is thought to be wearing blue jeans, a black coat, white Adidas trainers and carrying a large brown bag.
"She is often known to visit parks and Barnsley bus station and officers want to hear from anyone who has seen her this morning or who knows where she is.
"If you can help, please call 101 quoting incident number 148 of 9 October 2017."
The Russian economy has been in a bit of a tailspin, with the ruble falling to its lowest value in more than a decade. There are many reasons for this—perhaps chiefly that Saudi Arabia is flooding the market with enough cheaply produced oil to all but bury Russia’s oil industry—and Russian citizens are right to be conc...
One group of Russian citizens wealthy enough to weather the storm is Russia’s elite, billionaire class. But they’ve been having a rough go of it, too. Though emergency measures enacted in the wee hours of Monday slowed the rate of the ruble’s tumble, these 15 oligarchs and tycoons have lost a collective $8.65 billion o...
Alisher Usmanov – $809 million lost (new net worth: $13.4 billion).
Viktor Vekselberg – $491 million lost (new net worth: $13.6 billion).
Roman Abramovich – $449.5 million lost (new net worth: $12.8 billion).
Mikhail Fridman – $417.2 million lost (new net worth: $12.4 billion).
Vladimir Potanin – $183 million gained (new net worth: $12 billion).
Alexey Mordashov – $996.7 million lost (new net worth: $10.6 billion).
Mikhail Prokhorov – $411.1 million lost (new net worth: $10.4 billion).
Dmitry Rybolovlev – $150.1 million lost (new net worth: $9.8 billion).
Leonid Mikhelson – $389 million lost (new net worth: $9.2 billion).
Andrey Melnichenko – $50.9 gained (new net worth: $8.9 billion).
Sergey Galitskiy – $1.46 billion lost (new net worth: $8.1 billion).
German Khan – $333.2 million lost (new net worth: $8.4 billion).
Oleg Deripaska – $666.5 million lost (new net worth: $7.5 billion).
Vladimir Lisin – $848.1 million lost (new net worth: $7 billion).
Vagit Alekperov – $1.7 million lost (new net worth: $6.7 billion).
It’s somewhat normal for billionaires to suffer fluctuations in wealth that seem astronomical to the non-billionaire crowd, but this crop of elite Russians is generally outpacing their peers. In the same period, Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire, lost $2.99 billion of his original net worth of $67.9 billion. Mark Zu...
Earnings are out for Restoration Hardware. CNBC's Courtney Reagan reports the details. CNBC's Mike Santoli; Stephanie Link, TIAA Global Asset Management; and "Fast Money" trader Brian Kelly weigh in.
This sauce is basic to many Puerto Rican recipes. It appears on just about everything, either as a marinade or added as a seasoning. Try a little bit when cooking meat.
Peel and mince garlic. Mix garlic, oregano, olive oil and wine vinegar together in a small jar. To use the adobo as a marinade for steak or other meats, allow the meat to marinate in it for 24 hours or so in the refrigerator.
Without her nomadic life’s timeline as accompaniment — the youngest of 14 kids, catapulted from Northeast Arkansas to coastal California at the age of 3 — you might hear Iris Dement’s inimitable voice and assume she never left the American South. There’s something about the way she finds multiple colors in a single vow...
I caught up with Dement ahead of her upcoming performance on Sunday, March 3, at UA Pulaski Technical College’s Center for the Humanities and Arts (CHARTS), [postponed to April 7] where all proceeds benefit Compassion Works for All, a prison outreach organization that teaches meditation, yoga and conflict resolution to...
You were born in Paragould, but your family moved to California when you were very young. Despite that, it seems to me that Southern musical traditions have remained ever present in your work. Why is that, do you think? What kept you connected to country and gospel and folk as you grew up? Was it something familial? So...
Gospel and country were the first types of music I heard, and although I was exposed to, and appreciated, other genres, those two were ever present. I got it around the house all week listening to my mom, family singing and old country records. Then I got it at church three or four times a week by way of a largely Sout...
You've really made no secret of the fact that although music itself is something you're very naturally and deeply connected to, performing — and being in the spotlight — hasn’t always been. Has that changed over the years? And if so, what happened to make you feel differently?
What's changed is that I've begun to wonder if I was ever, by nature, all that shy or afraid of the spotlight. My family was very patriarchal. As was the white evangelical church I grew up in. I think a lot of my discomfort with being on stage and stepping out as a writer had to do with old, and largely Biblical, messa...
To me, there's a beauty and maybe a little bit of a paradox to the idea that the spotlight is not necessarily your favorite place. I mean, your voice is not one that blends into the shadows; it's bold and clear and declamatory. And sometimes it takes a while for people to find their voice and their style. Did you ever ...
Yeah. Believe me, I've been aware of that paradox. It just doesn't trouble me like it used to. As far as style, I've tried all kinds of things over the years. Anyone I've ever heard and loved, I've studied and brought a part of them into what I do. And, I'm still doing that. It's called learning and growing. I hope to ...
You've spoken about the ways in which your late mother's dream of becoming a singer has sort of intertwined with your own career, something you delved into with "Mama's Opry," and in an interview with NPR, in which you talk about how you finally found a key you could agree on for "Higher Ground." Do you think about her...
I think about her all the time. Even when I'm not. That's how powerful her influence on me has been. She's why I'm a singer. She's why I sing in the style that I do. She's why I step out even when I'm afraid. She was always finding small ways to resist the sometimes stifling and repressive world she was born into, and ...
You're a mother now, too, and I wonder if (as odd as it is to ask someone this in 2018!) you could talk about this strange, maybe serendipitous connection you've developed with Russia — both through your having adopted a Russian-born child with your husband, Greg Brown, and through this book of Anna Akhmatova's poetry ...
Our daughter spent her first six years in Russia and much of who she is, is still rooted in elements of her birth country and culture. So, there's that. Then there just seems to be something in my nature or life experience that draws me to Russian literature. When I discovered the poetry of Anna Akhmatova, time stood s...
Get tickets to see Iris Dement Sunday, March 3, at charts.uaptc.edu.
Andy Murray produced one of the performances of his career, but after more than four hours and with an injured hip that will inevitably end his career at some point this year, he exited the Australian Open in the first round at the hands of 22nd seed Roberto Bautista Agut.
Andy Murray just fought one of the biggest battles of his career. It may have only been a Round of 128 in the Australian Open but the Brit fought his way back from two sets down to take his opponent Roberto Bautista Agut to a fifth. Business INsider reports Murray announced last Friday that the Australian Open could be...
2. A military strike against Iran will stop them from being able to make a nuclear weapon.
I will grant that, assuming such a strike did in fact wipe out all of Iran's nuclear facilities, on the day after that attack, Iran would find themselves unable to make a nuclear weapon. What happens on day two? Day 10? Day 1000? Would Iran be progressing towards liberal democracy? No. Would Iran have less motivation t...
In a neocon world, time stops after we attack. Unfortunately for all of us, they are living in our world, not theirs.
And what if Putin or a future Pakistani leader decides just to give them one anyway, in solidarity after US aggression? I understand the worry about Iran's regime and nukes. It's real. But pretending that no other global powers exist or that mere bombing will solve our fundamental problem with Islamism seems to me to b...
The final rule published today requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to screen workers and new hires through the E-Verify system each year will put significant new burdens on those employers at least in the short term, an industry representative said today.
E-Verify is the automated system for allowing employers to verify employees' and job applicants' eligibility to work in the United States. When an employer submits an individual's name and personal information, E-Verify checks the data against Social Security Administration and Homeland Security Department databases to...
President Bush signed an executive order on June 6 authorizing a change to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to require federal contractors and subcontractors to participate in E-Verify. The final rule specifies the conditions of participation.
Under the new rule, which goes into effect Jan. 15, the government estimates that 168,000 employers will have to screen 3.8 million employees in 2009. That is a large increase from the 70,000 employers using the system this year.
Contractors are worried that E-Verify is not ready to handle a huge volume of activity yet and may result in people being laid off or contracts being delayed until the system can manage the larger volumes, said Trey Hodgkins, vice president of federal government programs for the Information Technology Association of Am...
"Our concern is that the system is not adequately scaled yet, and the delays that would be caused would prevent companies from starting on contracts and may force them to lay off or fire employees because they cannot obtain verification in a timely fashion," Hodgkins said. "These are the unintended consequences and app...
The final E-Verify rule inserts a clause into federal contracts that requires government contractors and subcontractors to use the E-Verify system to ensure employment eligibility of all new hires, as well as all existing and new employees directly performing work under federal contracts. It also orders prime contracto...
Its application to subcontractors may be "too broad," Hodgkins said. The ITAA had recommended that prime contractors would notify subcontractors of the requirement, but the primes would not bear responsibility for the subcontractors' compliance, he said.
"The enforcement responsibility is unclear," Hodgkins said. "It would be burdensome for a company to have to do this for one or two subcontractors, but for a major defense system, with thousands of subcontractors, the prime contractor would have a major responsibility."
The ITAA also is examining the definition of covered employees, including whether it includes any administrative personnel, and is looking into the final rule's handling of commercial items, which appear to be described using terms that had been rejected in other federal contracting documents, Hodgkins said.
The government estimates that in 2009, under the new rule, the cost of implementing the rule next year will total $254 million. Over 10 years, the cost of the final rule is estimated at $1.1 billion.
The final rule raises the threshold for covered contracts to $100,000, up from $3,000.
It allows a contractor 90 calendar days, rather than 30 days as previously proposed, from enrollment to using the system. It sets a deadline of 30 calendar days, rather than three days, for employers to begin verifying existing employees.
The final rule also exempts contracts for commercial off-the-shelf items.
E-Verify has been operating on a small scale for more than a decade.The program has been controversial due to the error rates in the federal databases used to verify eligibility.
According to a June 2008 report from the Government Accountability Office, about 7 percent of the queries to E-Verify cannot be verified immediately by the Social Security Administration, and about 1 percent cannot be immediately confirmed as work-authorized by U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services. Critics say those n...
Furthermore, the E-Verify system cannot protect against workers using stolen identity information and stolen Social Security numbers, according to the GAO report.
The SEC Football Media Days kick off Wednesday in Hoover, Ala. Then comes the start of practice next week. The season-opening kickoff can't be far behind.
Arkansas, South Carolina, Auburn and Kentucky head football coaches and selected players will address the media today. Click back later for video interviews, analysis and Q&As with players.
Taylor Leighton is a PolitiFact intern and a student at the University of Chicago.
Says "employers are still allowed to pay people with disabilities below the minimum wage."
"Every single strawberry that is served to Members of Congress will have passed through the rough hands of an undocumented immigrant."
"40% of Americans know someone who has been killed by a gun."

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