Photographer Cat Garcia is behind a new book, Our Time, which showcases 60 of the UK’s most inspiring people, including pop artist Sir Paul Smith, Bella Freud, Sir Peter Blake, Kate Moross, Fergus Henderson, Polly Morgan, Giles Deacon, Gavin Turk, Beatrix Ong, Julie Verhœven, Robbie Honey and Gary Card. Garcia spent a day with […]
Lucire’s style round-up: fashionable Instagrams this week, December 17
In this week’s fashion Instagram round-up I have first included my new obsession: Australian model Bambi (Steph) Northwood-Blyth. Here Bambi takes a bathroom selfie in super-cute retro overalls and a white sweater underneath. The other model featured this week is Texas-born 17-year-old Binx Walton. The spring ’14 up-and-comer looks airport-chic in a black-on-black outfit. […]
Jason Merritt Carrera y Carrera may have spent a good part of the last 12 months targeting the Chinese market with its snake-themed designs, but it’s also captured the imagination of younger celebrities. It pointed out today to Lucire that Modern Family’s Sarah Hyland chose its Granada ring for the première of The Hunger Games: […]
A silky showcase as For Every Minute leads up to Christmas
For Every Minute showcased its sleepwear and loungewear last Friday at Coco Wellington, with co-designer Kenzy Cheeseman (the other half of the partnership, Faye Lowe, is fulfilling new-Mum duties) greeting customers and personally recommending items for boudoir and home. Oyster Bay and Antipodes water supported the event, which saw everything at Coco themed to […]
BFAnyc.com The Chanel Métiers d’Art show on Tuesday, December 10 saw designer Karl Lagerfeld unveil a venue designed to resemble a Dallas rodeo. The event took place at the Dallas Fair Park, known for its stunning art-déco architecture, transformed to host the Chanel Paris–Dallas 2013–14 collection. The dramatic event began with a showing of […]
Lucire’s Instagram round-up, December 13
This week’s Instagram round-up first consists of some local posts. Lucire’s incredible fashion editor, Sopheak Seng, has outdone himself again this week with a shoot produced by Arcana Imperii for Industry New Zealand’s Men’s Hairdresser of the Year 2014 finalist Michael Beel’s collection. Be sure to check out the shoot. On our Lucire Instagram we […]
Fashion photographer Kate Barry, daughter of John Barry and Jane Birkin, found dead in Paris
Above, from top Among Kate Barry’s work were these portraits of Carla Bruni (for Elle) and Sophie Marceau. Fashion photographer Kate Barry, 46, has been found dead outside her 16th arrondissement apartment in Paris, according to French police. Barry, who was the daughter of the late film composer John Barry and actress Jane Birkin, […]
Lucire’s style round-up: fashionable Instagrams this week, December 10
This week’s style Instagram round up cannot be complete without my favourite Russian fashion writer and style icon, Miroslava Duma. Miroslava stuns in a blue- and yellow-toned printed baby-doll dress. The look is completed with a truly elegant retro-curled bob and minimal make-up. Fellow fashion writer and Swedish blogging-babe Elin Kling also made the cut […]
Sylver & Shackel celebrates first anniversary with new jewellery collections
Luke Calder Sylver & Shackel celebrated its first anniversary at Willis York in Wellington. Its jewellery collection featured in a beautiful installation at the Wellington salon, and Lucire loved its boudoir feel. Founders Sylvie Poupard-Gould and Joanna Shackel find their materials from vintage finds: they visit auction houses to source, rescuing antique pieces, then […]
Miss Orléanais, Flora Coquerel, crowned Miss France 2014
TF1 Miss Orléanais, Flora Coquerel, has been crowned Miss France 2014, during the live telecast Saturday night and into the small hours of Sunday morning on French network TF1. The 19-year-old, nearly six foot tall, works in international trade, and in her spare time, practises dancing and plays badminton. Her hobbies include film, fashion […]
