Luxottica Group Announces Audio Webcast of Management Presentation of 4Q05 and Fiscal Year 2005 Results

Milan, Italy – January 27, 2006 - Luxottica Group S.p.A. (NYSE: LUX; MTA: LUX), the global leader in the eyewear sector, today announced that on Wednesday, February 1, 2006, at 8:30 AM US ET (1:30 PM GMT, 2:30 PM CET) it will make available a live audio webcast of a management presentation of the Group’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2005 results. Representatives of the financial community and the media should contact the company at investorrelations@luxottica.com or mediarelations@luxottica.com to receive an invite to participate in person the actual management presentation, which will take place in Milan, Italy.

The audio webcast will be available to the financial community and the media from Luxottica Group’s corporate website at www.luxottica.com/english/investor_relations/webcast.html.

The audio webcast will be available for replay through the close of business day on February 15, 2006. Please note that a slide presentation will be available for download from Luxottica Group’s investor relations corporate website at www.luxottica.com/english/investor_relations/presentation.html shortly before the start of the audio webcast.

Following the end of the replay period, the slide presentation will continue to be available from the archives of the above – mentioned section. Luxottica Group will report fourth quarter and fiscal year 2005 results on January 31 Certain financial and statistical information included in the webcast, as well as information required by Regulation G, will be available at the time of the webcast in the notes to the relative earnings release available from Luxottica Group’s website at www.luxottica.com, section investor relations, press releases.

Contacts

Luxottica Group S.p.A.

Luca Biondolillo
Head of Communications
Email: MediaRelations@Luxottica.com

Alessandra Senici
Manager, Investor Relations
Email: InvestorRelations@Luxottica.com

Tel.: +39 (02) 8633-4062