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Kate Moss’s bloodied, lipstick self-portrait sells below reserve

September 29, 2008/23.59

A self-portrait of supermodel Kate Moss has fetched £33,600 at an auction by Lyon & Turnball of Edinburgh.    The painting was done in lipstick and has writing in blood from her former boyfriend, Pete Doherty. It was done while the two were still in a relationship.    Doherty’s words read, ‘Who needs blood when you’ve got lipstick?’ […]

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We’re photographing Sam, so pray for good weather

/13.10

Left: It’s not even that good a quality (the technical aspects, not the subject) but this is one of the more regularly pirated shots of Samantha Powell online. Some blogging services have been kindly getting it removed from around the web on our behalf—one had this shot and another one of Jennifer Hawkins from this […]

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Ford Focus: 100 years since the Model T

/9.03

What better way to commemorate the centenary of the Ford Model T than with a test drive of the modern-day equivalent, the basic Ford Focus hatchback? This appears on Lucire today, and the text link to the free supplement on the home page has now been ?xed—so you can download pages from the print edition […]

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Court grants injunction blocking Project Runway on Lifetime

September 26, 2008/23.23

A New York court has agreed with NBC Universal’s preliminary injunction application, preventing the shifting of the reality TV show Project Runway to Lifetime. The application alleged that NBC Universal’s right of first refusal was violated.    Project Runway current airs on NBC Universal’s Bravo cable channel in the US, but Lifetime had announced a $150 […]

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Watch out for Sam

/22.59

We’re preparing to shoot Samantha Powell, Miss Universe New Zealand 2008, on Tuesday. Photographer Doug Rimington is ?ying in from Sydney tonight and I collect him at the airport in a BMW 120i Cabriolet that the company has lent to me; and the Tissot Fabulous Garden watch has arrived, delivered personally by Grif?ths McKay & […]

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Window Cleaning: lessons in social media

September 25, 2008/13.14

[Cross-posted] Not directly about fashion, but possibly still of interest to those in to blogging and social media, particularly their relevance to modern business. My friend Tim Kitchin (left) has an excellent video series, Window Cleaning, on his company’s website. Tim leads the ?rst video on social communication (a very ?tting introduction), while Johnnie Moore […]

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WOW: a big toast in Civic Square

September 24, 2008/13.18

We had an unusual call from Hayley Dryland earlier today about New Zealand’s biggest toast on record to launch this year’s 20th anniversary Montana World of Wearable Art (WOW) show.    Katherine Thomson, currently interning with us, and I drove down to Civic Square to see a targeted 500 people raise their glasses of Montana Reserve […]

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No change you can believe in

September 23, 2008/11.45

Folks, I have had to turn down, in the interests of balance, an advertising campaign from the Obama for America people. This is not the ?rst time we have had to opt out of advertising, no matter how much money was on offer. (Interestingly, it is usually the Democrats who are keen to advertise online; even […]

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Lucire issue 26: download your free supplement here

September 21, 2008/11.39

Left: On your newsstands, Lucire no. 26, with cover by Kelly Thompson. Below left: The cover to the downloadable free supplement, with cover by Morand/Zwirner Photography (the full shoot appears in the newsstand edition). Issue 26 of Lucire is on the newsstands, but we realize some readers overseas mightn’t want to order it online if […]

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Lucire TV: Starfish reopens its flagship store

/10.16

Steve Leon at Springtv and his team ventured to Starfish’s store reopening at the end of August and have some great footage of the event, plus they get to ask the host, Laurie Foon, and some of the guests there (myself included) what we’re wearing. Here are the two videos from Lucire TV—the first of many […]

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