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All Jimmy Fairly’s frames are designed in France and handmade in Italy.
Lenses are Made in France.

Have a nice day.

Antonin Chartier, Co-founder

With regard to the UI I actually disagree with your comments. Top nav bars, white backgrounds, web safe fonts and optimized for 1024 resolution is fairly standard stuff.

If you drill down into the site you’ll actually see the url structures, navigation, footer linkage, font, use of images vs text and filtering options are quite different.

What Jimmy Fairly did lies somewhere between extremely poor form and actual IP infringement. Furthermore, from an investor’s perspective, it shows the founders’ inability to innovate themselves.

I work in the startup community in Paris and think we are capable of better than this.

Yes Jimmy’s team was mostly inspired by WP, yes they applied the same GOOD recipe, and have no more pretention than being a new and innovative brand, with an ethical way of selling products in France and Europe.
- Katie,about the concerns regarding founders background they booth come from the best business school in France and always rated among top 10 european schools. You probably don’t know HEC but it could be one of the leader of an hypothetical european “Ivy League”. So Katie thanks for worrying but they’ve got expertise, and can rely on mentors from top management of successfull companies in France and Europe who bet on them.
- Chris, Erratum and Kenneth : why are you so scared about that french brand ? Why are you so angry ? After all that is YOU, the americans, that instored free market and still singing the praises of it ! So why being in contridaction with what made your country what it is today ? Being able to share, copy and paste any idea good or bad and raise it to another level if previous one was perfectible, is the root of (e)business inovation nowedays. You set these rules claming “may be the best the winner” so don’t cry when a handle of french are trying to beat big brother ! Don’t patronize, play the game, and the best will win !
Chris by the way, at the time we’ve got Moliere, one of those guys that built France, and give this country an history a bit a older than 300 years…
I’m done with you my dear american people, I don’t know JF founders that well but the way you patronize them just pissed me off.
You’re not perfect neither : ask your gran ma who lost her house in Wisconsin thanks to your Wall street Ivy League genius, and ask Brandon, you know him, you neighbour that died in Iraqi for a couple of barel that you’ll sell for 1000 USD when the time will come…

GOD BLESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP, OBAMA, AND LE FOIE GRAS !

From France with love !

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As for them being a copy of someone else’s business concept, that’s kind of what should happen in a healthy market: practices that work better spread, and eliminate old and bad practices. Here the mount and prescription glasses manufacturers and distributors that were happily overpricing their stuff will lose market shares to new guys (lots of people launching on that segment in the last year..), and as customers we’ll save money. Previously dominant market actors will either adapt or go under. I can live with that.

As for Warby Parker, are they addressing european markets? If they are, let’s hope they got a headstart, and if they aren’t, then it doesn’t affect them.