Gentle Monster

Gentle Monster is a South Korean luxury eyewear brand founded in 2011 and operated by parent company IICOMBINED, headquartered in Seoul. The brand designs and sells avant-garde sunglasses and optical frames, and is widely recognized for its immersive, art-installation flagship stores and experiential retail spaces. Its sister brands include Tamburins (fragrance and body care) and Nudake (conceptual dessert and patisserie). Gentle Monster sells globally through flagship stores, department-store concessions, and its direct-to-consumer site at gentlemonster.com. It was surfaced as a portfolio company of IDG Capital and added to the API Evangelist network for enrichment; it is a consumer retail brand and publishes no public developer API surface at this time.

Gentle Monster is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Eyewear, Fashion, and Retail.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyConsumerEyewearFashionRetailLuxurySunglasses

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Gentle Monster Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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Company 1

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Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: gentle-monster
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/gentle-monster.png
name: Gentle Monster
description: Gentle Monster is a South Korean luxury eyewear brand founded in 2011 and operated by parent company IICOMBINED,
  headquartered in Seoul. The brand designs and sells avant-garde sunglasses and optical frames, and is widely recognized
  for its immersive, art-installation flagship stores and experiential retail spaces. Its sister brands include Tamburins
  (fragrance and body care) and Nudake (conceptual dessert and patisserie). Gentle Monster sells globally through flagship
  stores, department-store concessions, and its direct-to-consumer site at gentlemonster.com. It was surfaced as a portfolio
  company of IDG Capital and added to the API Evangelist network for enrichment; it is a consumer retail brand and publishes
  no public developer API surface at this time.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gentle-monster/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- idg-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Eyewear
- Fashion
- Retail
- Luxury
- Sunglasses
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gentle-monster-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://gentlemonster.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence