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Has Ryanair pushed its 2010 calendar too far?
We knew it was that time of year again: the number of searches that resulted in hits at Lucire about the Ryanair calendar. Last year, this magazine covered the story briefly, trying to stay neutral by reporting the facts. We deta...
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...
Porsche Boxster Spyder is the butch one
In 1953, Porsche showed its original racing 550 Spyder, a lightweight roadster—a model which could count James Dean as one of its owners. In the 1980s, to get more mileage out of the 911 line, the company released a Speedster version, inspired by ...
Guggenheim Bilbao opens exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright
Tying in nicely with Stanley Moss’s Navarra story published in Lucire, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has announced it has opened an exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright. The museum says that this is ‘the largest and most comprehensive ...
Sylvie van der Vaart gives BMW the hair test
Former Miss Bundesliga and the Netherlands’ and Germany’s most famous WAG, Sylvie van der Vaart, puts the BMW convertible to the hair test in the company’s München wind tunnel. The full story is here on our website. ...
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 ...
Vanessa Paradis is new face of Chanel lipstick
Chanel has announced that it will begin a collaboration with singer–actress Vanessa Paradis, as the face of Rouge Coco, a new range of lipsticks from the French firm. Paradis had already represented the Chanel Coco fragrance in ...
Chanel to launch Coco Cocoon line, with Lily Allen fronting campaign
Some of you will have seen the ads for Coco Before Chanel on this website (currently on at the Penthouse Cinema here in Wellington), on the eve of its release in New York and Los Angeles. But in the real world of Chanel, we can show the below video f...
Lucire’s view: The September Issue
Above Stills from The September Issue. Vogue editor Anna Wintour is likened to the Pope in R. J. Cutler’s documentary The September Issue. With a divine omnipotence, a single-arched eyebrow reduces flamboyant designers to stuttering school bo...
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...
Flying about
Our good friend Thomaz has been in Ecuador to photograph fashion week there, and we have some shots from the event last month. Meanwhile, we’d like to give Sharyn Steel’s Struggling to Fly a bit of a plug. Sharyn started off as...
Tomorrow, blogs might even drive print magazines
The ‘Insider’ section has now been facelifted for the first time, bringing it in line with the new pages on the Lucire website. It has also dawned on us that this blog celebrates its second anniversary. Lucire was a late conver...
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...
ShowStudio gets exhibition at Somerset House
Naomi Campbell, Bring and Buy, ShowStudio, 2005. Copyright by Nick Knight. Beginning during London Fashion Week, Somerset House will present an exhibition on ShowStudio, founded by Nick Knight. In 2003, both Lucire and ShowStudio were vying for a pri...
Lucire experiments with a new look online
We’re currently experimenting with a new look at Lucire, our first facelift in three years. In the world of the Web, three years without a change is a long time. And if you like what we’ve done, we’ll roll it out more widely ...
Mini shows Coupé Concept for 50th anniversary
On August 26, 1959, the British Motor Corp. released the Mini—or, more accurately, the Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor. The British icon celebrates its 50th anniversary today, and BMW, the current owner of the Mini brand, shows a coupé concept....
Walter Cronkite deserves today’s praise
[Cross-posted] It’s quite sad to learn of the passing of former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite today. Although Cronkite had not been on the nightly news since his retirement from that show in the early 1980s, his job taken over by Dan Rather, he rem...
Manuel Bozzi commemorates Woodstock’s 40th
Pisa-based jewellery designer Manuel Bozzi has released his Flying Standard Gibson pendant to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock on August 15. Bozzi, according to his company, is a rock and roll fan, and the new pendant is a continuation o...
The Dark Room homage
This came in from Mint Condition, the PR company and showroom in Auckland, New Zealand. We love the homage to Saul Bass, never mind that the labels being sold are really good!...
The new Jaguar XJ in motion
After a heady launch last night at the Saatchi Gallery, here are some videos of the new Jaguar XJ. We begin with a video of the new cars being built at Castle Bromwich, before looking at one of Jaguar’s most beautiful new models in a 360-degree seg...
Twiggy’s 60th birthday exhibition hits London, September 19
Above: The iconic image of Twiggy, aged 16 and weighing 90 lb, photographed by Barry Lategan in 1966. It has been known that a book celebrating Twiggy’s 60th birthday, Twiggy: a Life in Photographs, will be published by the National Portrait Galler...
Balibo trailer shown in advance
The people behind the Australian political thriller Balibo, directed by Robert Connolly (The Bank, Three Dollars) have provided us with its trailer a few days before its website goes live. The film follows the story of five Australian jou...
Volvo: a history of motorsport
Volvo has been involved in motor racing since 1928. With a Volvo review coming up in Lucire, we thought it would be interesting to delve back into the Swedish car maker’s history. While people know Volvo for safety, it has been very successful in c...
Icons Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett dead
TMZ was the first to report that pop star Michael Jackson had passed away after suffering cardiac arrest at his home. Presently, mainstream media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times are confirming the news, based on their sources. ...
Mini United celebrates 50 years of an icon
Last weekend, 25,000 enthusiasts from over 40 countries attended the Mini United Festival at Silverstone to celebrate the 50th anniversary of an automotive icon. It’s hard to believe that the Mini celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, having c...
Mini celebrates 50th with unique model dedicated to George Harrison
Mini celebrates its 50th birthday this weekend at Silverstone, England. It has come up with a fresh interpretation of George Harrison’s extravagant original Mini to coincide with the event, using the latest R55 model as its base. The o...
Design exhibition deemed not to disappoint
Travelling the world for three years and having already showed in Torino, Kyoto, Hong Kong and Melbourne, this international touring exhibition entitled The Dimension of the Plane—Communication Design in Germany is set to deliver some of Germany...
Ashes to Ashes is back
Further to our earlier post about the second series of Ashes to Ashes, here’s the trailer, released yesterday. The 1980s, or at least this fictional version of it, doesn’t look much like where we are at, with its bright colours...
Commonsense Organics
The organic industry has boomed over the last few years and it seems like a new organic product appears on store shelves daily. Personally I find it a tad overwhelming and I am continually weighing up whether or not certain organic foods a...
