davies td tom davies type private company industry fashion founded 2002 headquarters london united kingdom products sunglasses and optical website www.tdtomdavies.com td tom davies is a british bespoke eyewear brand founded by tom davies in 2002 . its headquarters are in mortlake london . 1 contents 1 history 2 flagship store 3 celebrity following 4 products 5 film work 6 references history edit in the beginning td tom davies offered bespoke glasses designed in one to one consultations with davies personally . in 2008 td tom davies started to offer its bespoke eyewear service to opticians worldwide allowing an optician to design unique made to measure frames themselves . production has since moved from england to china . 2 in 2008 davies opened his own factory in the hills outside hong kong although he feels the word factory is too industrial preferring the term workshop . td tom davies frames are the result of an integration of the skills required for handmade craft with an automated ordering process . 3 so far the company has built up a multinational network of 1494 trained stockists . citation needed the company offer an ipad application that assists opticians in the measurement and ordering of the bespoke eyewear . 4 flagship store edit in february 2014 the brand opened its flagship store in london s sloane square . 5 the flagship store is set out over two floors with the ground floor comprising a showroom and consultation area and the lower floor containing an eye testing suite . the eye testing suite is stocked solely with zeiss optical testing machinery and is the only private practice in the uk to have all the latest diagnostic equipment available from zeiss . 6 celebrity following edit heston blumenthal s iconic spectacles are a bespoke pair made by tom davies 7 other celebrity s who have worn td tom davies glasses include angelina jolie matthew bellamy rowan atkinson and kevin spacey 8 products edit td tom davies spectacles can be made of cotton acetate titanium natural horn and precious metals . 1 they retail for an average of 600 . 2 film work edit the glasses henry cavill wears as clark kent in batman v superman dawn of justice are made by british spectacle designer tom davies . apparently the costume designer found most glasses sat too high on henry cavill s face because he has a high bridge . they sought out tom davies who makes bespoke glasses to design a one off pair of spectacles for the job . 9 references edit a b td tom davies homepage . a b chu jeff 1 march 2010 . how custom eyewear will change the industry and your look . fast company . handley neil . cult eyewear the world s enduring classics . london merrell . pp. 176 177 . isbn 9781858945095 . td tom davies . cnet . retrieved 11 april 2013 . mechanicsofstyle . collectors gpq & a no. 28 tom davies . mechanicsofstyle posted 3 march 2014 . telegraph . spectacles of science telegraph luxury tatler . tom davies opening party tatler bystander the telegraph . angelina jolie wears td tom davies sunglasses fashion imdb 1 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title td tom davies & oldid 738623600 categories 2002 establishments in the united kingdomcompanies based in londonmortlake londonorganisations based in richmond upon thameshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 september 2016 at 03 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view