Life is a spectacle: the remarkable rise of the Ray-Ban billionaire
The Italian entrepreneur, who died this week, went from orphan to owner of the world’s biggest maker of eyewear
27 June 2022 - 20:38
Leonardo Del Vecchio, the Italian entrepreneur who started with a tiny optics workshop in the Dolomite mountains and ended up as the undisputed world leader in eyewear, has died. He was 87...
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