Ray-Ban’s billionaire owner Del Vecchio dies at 87 https://ift.tt/PTA5lkN https://ift.tt/O36b17t June 28, 2022 at 07:51AM World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/oiUueZ0 Leonardo Del Vecchio, who founded eyewear empire Luxottica in a trailer and turned an everyday object into a global fashion item, becoming one of Italy's richest men in the process, died on Monday. He was 87. Born May 22, 1935 in Milan to a poor family, he spent part of his youth in an orphanage and began working as a teenager. He founded his own company, Luxottica, in 1961, supplying the optical industry with components.