Earlier this week, the British Fashion Council, in association with Harper’s Bazaar UK and Selfridges, hosted Britain Creates 2012: Fashion & Art Collusion, celebrating the year in which London hosts the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Britain Creates brings together fashion and contemporary visual art, showcasing collaborations between luminaries such as Matthew Williamson and Mat […]
Month: June 2012
Video: Katie Holmes files for divorce from Tom Cruise
Updated June 30, 2012, 9.43 a.m. GMT with fourth and fifth videos Katie Holmes has filed for divorce from Tom Cruise in a New York court, and wants custody of their daughter, Suri, 6. ‘Irreconcilable differences’ were cited as the reason for divorce, according to TMZ. Both parties have issued statements, with Holmes’s lawyer […]
Emma Stone on her Vogue cover: ‘one of the easiest shoots I have ever done’
Emma Stone calls her Vogue cover shoot for July ‘one of the easiest shoots I have ever done’. The shoot, by Mario Testino, first had its cover image leaked online two weeks ago. Stone says that the experience was ‘still, to me very bizarre. It looks to me like a different person.’ She […]
Organic Trevarno has released its honey and sugar body scrub for summer skin. The new product is chemical- and synthetic-free, featuring organic cane sugar for polishing, lime essential oil for refreshing, and wheatgerm oil for vitamin E. Honey is blended with vanilla pods soaked in jojoba oil and rosebuds. The result is a cleanser and […]
MAC goes dotty with Beth Ditto collection
MAC Cosmetics has released a candy-themed range as part of its Beth Ditto collection, featuring the Zoom Lash mascara in three colours, Zoom Fast Black Lash, Pro Longwear Lipcreme, and nail lacquers. The Shade & Smoke shadow–liner (in four shade combinations, RRP NZ$56) features both eye-shadow and greasepaint liner in one for a smoky eye […]
Blake Lively praises Salma Hayek in Oliver Stone’s Savages
Blake Lively, in a Zuhair Murad black corset fishtail gown, heaped praise on co-star Salma Hayek at the première of Savages in Los Angeles. ‘It was amazing to work with her as a villain because we were such good buddies personally, so when she would turn into her character it was always fun to […]
Victoria Beckham reunites with Spice Girls for Viva Forever launch
Updated with second video at June 26, 2012, 2.04 p.m. GMT Victoria Beckham joined her fellow Spice Girls—Geri Halliwell, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm—to launch their new musical, Viva Forever, today at the St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel. The venue for the launch is where the video for ‘Wannabe’, which marked the […]
Myshoppingsecrets.com launches in Australia, while new products launch for winter hair and skin
Emma Ponsonby and Myshoppingsecrets.com, which Lucire covered earlier this year, has now launched in Australia, with 100 labels represented on the site. Forty-eight of the one hundred are already shipping to Australia and Ponsonby says she expects the number to grow rapidly. The site originally launched in the UK in February, and in New Zealand […]
Gimme Some Lovin’ and a July 4 concert on Catalina Island
Above Spencer Davis performing at the Marlin in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, California. At the youthful age of 73, legendary British rocker Spencer Davis is still on his game. Back in 1967, his hit single ‘Keep on Running’ knocked the Beatles out of the top slot on the British Hit Parade, paving the way […]
Keeping an eye on wedding gown trends for 2012–13
Top Claire Pettibone. Above Junko Yoshioka. The wedding season is gearing up in America as summer progresses. This year is one of the biggest wedding years in Hollywood. As Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s engagement spread across the globe, influencing the wedding market, another movie star, Matthew McConaughey, and Camila Alves recently tied the knot. […]