Mary Katrantzou creates Design Museum Christmas tree; Nespresso offers cashback
Above Mary Katrantzou’s design for the Design Museum Christmas tree. First View Mary Katrantzou has designed the Design Museum’s Christmas tree this year, incorporating patterns from her autumn–winter 2012–13 collection. The collection included a collaboration with Swarovski and Lesage. The tree, measuring 3 m tall, will use Katrantzou’s patterns with a Christmas take on […]
Angelina Jolie will step back from acting to concentrate on family
Angelina Jolie says she will step back from acting when her children reach their teens in a TV interview with Britain’s Channel 4. The star, who raises six children with fiancé Brad Pitt—Maddox, 11, Pax, 9, Zahara, 7, Shiloh, 6, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 4—says, ‘I’m going to have to give up the […]
Video: media catch Prince William departing hospital after visiting Duchess of Cambridge
The British media have been going all out in the last day covering the pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, with news that she has been admitted to King Edward VII Hospital with acute morning sickness. Journalists, photographers and TV camera operators were stationed outside the Hospital to catch a […]
Videos: the Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant—the news analysed
The news of HRH the Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy means we have plenty of videos from our colleagues at ITN, on the announcement itself, on the rules of primogeniture (the baby will be third in line to the throne, regardless of gender), the obligatory comparison between the Duchess and Diana, Princess of Wales, and even […]
Scarlett Johansson to front Dolce & Gabbana’s upcoming The One Desire fragrance
Scarlett Johansson will be the face of Dolce & Gabbana’s latest fragrance, The One Desire, continuing her role as a spokeswoman for the brand. The campaign, photographed by Terry Richardson, launches in Italy next month, with an international roll-out soon after. The scent was developed by Givaudan, in association with P&G Prestige, Stefano […]
Lead-up to Miss France 2013 still bumpy over potential disqualifications
December is a big month for us when it comes to covering beauty pageants, with news of the Miss France telecast traditionally our most-read story of the year on the Lucire website. There has been slightly less of the “battle of the pageants” scandal in France this year, with Geneviève de Fontenay, la dame […]
Summer Rayne Oakes’s Extinction, on environmental challenges, goes live on Vimeo, YouTube
Summer Rayne Oakes’s environmental short art film, Extinction (or eXtinction to give the official title), has just gone live at Vimeo and YouTube. Summer Rayne, who appears in the 2013 Pirelli calendar shot by Steve McCurry, made Extinction in 2011, when it did the circuit at various film festivals across the world. The […]
Psy takes home four Mnet Asian Music Awards on ‘Gangnam Style’ wave
Psy, a.k.a. Park Jae-sang, took home four awards at the Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong on Friday, thanks to his hit ‘Gangnam Style’, which has surpassed even Justin Bieber in YouTube views, now numbering 850 million. He performed the song at the awards’ show and won awards for Song of the Year, […]
We always thought Deadfall was a movie by Bryan Forbes in the 1960s, but it’s actually a new film starring Eric Bana and one of our reader favourites, Olivia Wilde. Getting her hair looking right at the Thursday première came down to celebrity hairstylist David Babaii again, using the IT&LY range of hair products. […]
