# Gentle Monster

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/gentle-monster/  
**Website:** https://gentlemonster.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Gentle Monster Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Eyewear, Fashion, Retail, Luxury, Sunglasses

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/gentle-monster/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.