about Iris Optical
Established by optician Russell Scher FADO MFDO in 1999, Iris Optical began life in September 1999 as Iris Online Contact Lens Centre. Contact lens customers began asking whether we could offer deals on designer spectacles, and so in May 2001 Iris Spectacles was launched.
At this point our contact lens and spectacles businesses were merged under the Iris Optical name, and one year later the company premises by London's Tower Bridge was opened to the public and the first Iris store was born.
In September 2005 a partnership was formed with a new sunglass retail business owned by Alexis Amor. His first store, in Richmond, Surrey, was rebranded as 'Iris' and refitted to accommodate 300 designer frames as well as 300 designer sunglasses, and its success led to the opening of a third Iris store, in the City of London, in April 2007.
More stores are planned...
