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Countdown to Style Christchurch
We’re attending Andhy Blake’s Style Christchurch 2009 show, which promises an aeronautical theme at the Isaac Theatre Royal tomorrow night (November 12) at 8 p.m. in Christchurch, New Zealand. We attended his first one in 2007 and thought...
Claudia Schiffer and others commemorate children’s rights’ convention
The fall of the Berlin Wall is not the only 20th anniversary being celebrated this month. UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassadors have recorded a series of PSAs to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which ta...
Being pregnant still means being sexy, thanks to HotMilk Lingerie
What if you have worn glamorous lingerie all your life, but the minute you become pregnant, your choices begin looking limited? We came across Tauranga, New Zealand-based HOTMilk Lingerie on Twitter, and firmly believe this inte...
Water crystals inspire Dogstar collection
It’s not every day you see photography of this calibre in a catalogue. The label is Dogstar, the work of Masayo Yasuki and her team. What’s fascinating with the Laika range—named for the first mammal in space—is the collaboratio...
British jewellery for the Christmas season
Miss Milly is a new jewellery boutique that has recently opened online, with some bargains for the shopping season. The Merina necklace shown above retails for under £13. The husband-and-wife team behind the website is based in Worcester. &...
Pick of the week: Stolen Girlfriends’ Club
For me this was easily one of the best shows of Air New Zealand Fashion Week. Stolen Girlfriends’ Club’s autumn–winter 2010 collection is clever and original. How to make the Pocahontas look cool! There was so much to fall in love ...
Eva Longoria, Tony Parker in London Fog holiday campaign
US brand London Fog, best known for its raincoats and bags, showed its new holiday 2009 campaign starring Eva Longoria-Parker and husband Tony Parker yesterday. It is the first time the couple has appeared in a marketing campaign together. &nb...
Twelve things you might not have known about Lucire
This post has gone online exactly 12 years since Lucire went live on the internet (October 20, 1997, 6 a.m. EST), to commemorate our anniversary. Since those humble beginnings, Lucire has branched out from the web and into international ...
Kathryn Wilson shows limited-edition stiletto for Maybelline
Maybelline New York has announced that Kathryn Wilson has designed a limited-edition (40 pairs) stiletto to complement the launch of its Lash Stiletto lengthening mascara in New Zealand. Wilson, who received her first item of cove...
Keeley Hawes, Ronan Keating, Sir Jackie Stewart among celebs at Audi Centre opening
Above The world’s largest Audi Centre—West London Audi—officially opens its doors on October 19. Philip Glenister, the actor behind DCI Gene Hunt, the most famous fictional Audi driver, and Ashes to Ashes co-star Keeley Hawes, join ...
Derek Bell takes the Bentley Continental Supersports around the Nürburgring
Racing driver, Derek Bell, MBE, has been taking the new Bentley Continental Supersports for a spin. Except when you are a legend like Bell, that ‘spin’ would, necessarily, have to be at the Nürburgring, over 12 miles. The car will do 329 km/h (2...
Lancôme on eye make-up
Lancôme has released a new video with make-up artist German Moyano, this time with tips for the eyes. (In French with English subtitles.) ...
Sarah Thomas scores third award from ’09 Montana WOW
Timaru, New Zealand-based Sarah Thomas, who has already won the Weta Award and the American Express Open Section at the Montana World of Wearable Art Awards, has won her third prize, the People’s Choice Award, sponsored by local broadsheet The Dom...
Get an extra dose of Lucire
For those wanting an extra dose of Lucire, we have some more pages we can share in our free 72 pp. Supplement. Some are exclusive to this edition, some are older pages, and some are from the issue that’s on newsstands right now. It might not have t...
BMW’s new X1, not getting thrashed on Cobra 11
The BMW X1 received its début before it was even shown at the IAA, the Frankfurt Motor Show, namely on the hit RTL TV show, Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei. Rather than have it thrashed by Semir and Ben (or at least the stunt doubles for ac...
The Pamela Anderson press conference at New Zealand Fashion Week
A mad, busy day—Miromoda, Starfish, Emma Ford, Trix and Dandy, Chapel, Hailwood … but the highlight of the day and week was Stolen Girlfriends’ Club. Held in a masonic lodge in Newton, the show was so popular that we were jammed in like c...
Spotted at New Zealand Fashion Week
Thanks to the the girls’ super-crush on cute boy in hat, we managed to get these four stunners together for a photo op. Have you ever seen such a beautiful gang? I don’t think it’s coincidence that they are all part-Māori. Fourteen-year-...
Kate Walsh shines in J. Mendel
It’s probably no surprise that our first image from Sunday’s Emmy Awards is a publicity shot, namely of Kate Walsh (Private Practice), whose hair was styled by Suave Professionals. The hair care brand wanted to show that one could get celeb...
Saben prepares a second summer series
Saben, first profiled in Lucire in 2001, will launch a second series of limited-edition bags for the summer, hitting stores in November 2009. The themes are glo mesh and leopard print, and for some reason, despite our feeling that black c...
Opel Astra to Bentley Mulsanne: new metal at the IAA
Ferrari wasn’t the only one making a big splash at IAA, the Frankfurt Motor Show. BMW officially premièred its X1 (which had already appeared in German TV show Alarm für Cobra 11 two weeks before) and its 5er Gran Turismo—a hatchback vers...
Honouring 9-11
I don’t think we could let September 11, 2009 pass without marking what had happened in the United States eight years ago. As with this year, the day fell during New York Fashion Week, and as the publisher I had a few things to contend with. ...
Fabergé returns, with first high jewellery collection in 90 years
Fabergé has returned. The company best known for its work for various European royal houses has unveiled its first high jewellery collection since 1917, with a starting price of US$30,000 and an average price of US$200,000. A flagship on...
Sweden inaugurates its first national marine park
Sweden has inaugurated its first marine national park on its west coast, near the Norwegian border. Both Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, and Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, inaugurated the park at Kosterhavet, 150 km north of Göteborg. ...
Bex earns her stripes
New in stores this autumn, Rebecca Manners has created a collection called Safari Stripes for Made. These have been created by Fair Trade artisans in Kenya, with prices beginning at £50 for the brass rings’ cuff....
Jennifer Hawkins renews contract with Myer
Australian department store group Myer has announced that former Miss Universe, Jennifer Hawkins, has signed a A$1 million-plus contract with the firm to continue as its “face” for four more years. The new deal reportedly inclu...
An improved Alfa Romeo MiTo, Lucire’s Car to Be Seen in
Lucire’s Car to Be Seen in for 2009, the Alfa Romeo MiTo, now has a MultiAir version, which means more power (105, 135 and 170 hp) and torque but, more crucially for our readers, reduced (by 10 per cent) carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas oxide emissi...
Madonna in the autumn ’09 Louis Vuitton campaign
We have wanted to show these off for a little while, but for whatever reason, we put it off: Madonna in Louis Vuitton’s autumn–winter 2009–10 campaign. Steven Meisel photographed, and Marc Jacobs was artistic director. The portraits are meant t...
BBC joins interest in fashion with new drama, Material Girl
There is a growing interest in the fashion trade again—we’ve had to put up with The September Issue; the US is about to air The Beautiful Life with Elle Macpherson and Mischa Barton; and the BBC has now shown a clip of its new drama, Material Gir...
Porsche shows limited-edition 911 Sport Classic
With the IAA (Frankfurt Motor Show) around the corner, the automakers are sending us a lot of news. It’s greatly needed for the industry, which has experienced a major sales’ slump this year. We can always rely on Porsche to give us ...
The Lucire news page remains
We have decided to keep the ‘News’ page here on the Lucire site, rather than integrate it with ‘Insider’. It turns out that some of you do use it to get news headlines from around the web, and we can understand that it is helpful: it’s a co...
