Open season on European tourists
Hugh Llewelyn/Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic licence The season for extra vigilance is upon us, as tourists gear up for coming vacation travel. Already a friend was robbed in Marseille a few weeks ago, her US passport stolen from a room safe (!) in a five-star resort. Criminal gangs target older tourists, and they’re aware […]
Video interview: Alexander Wang on his collaboration with H&M, at the Coachella Music Festival
Above H&M’s Margareta van den Bosch and New York designer Alexander Wang. Alexander Wang (王大仁) is the next designer to collaborate with Hennes & Mauritz, with the announcement made on Saturday at the Coachella Music Festival in Palm Springs, Calif. Online above is video footage from the event, featuring interviews with Wang, Kate Bosworth and […]
We still want our MTV: the Secret Room celebrates the great outdoors
A decade ago, the MTV Movie Awards was Young Hollywood’s kick-off party to summer. In more recent years, it became the unofficial Oscar season “after-party” with its strategic move to April. That said, the pre-MTV Movie Awards festivities planned by Rita Branch and Amy Boatright of the Secret Room (which made the SLS Hotel’s Garden […]
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia, spring–summer 2014–15: the Innovators, Ae’lkemi, Aje
Ultimo TAFE Sydney Institute of Fashion The Innovators’ show featured the work of several recent graduates from the Ultimo TAFE school of fashion, carefully selected as promising future stars. I am always delighted to see fashion which is, like the name indicates, truly innovative and unspoiled by commercial reality. However, most of the garments were […]
Michael Lo Sordo, via Instagram Top Michael Lo Sordo, spring–summer 2014–15. Above Maticevski, spring–summer 2014–15. Michael Lo Sordo’s show was interesting from the moment you walked in. It was an original idea to install a sculpture on the catwalk to add interest, around which the models weaved as the glided down the catwalk. The mood […]
Tragedy strikes family again as Peaches Geldof, 25, found dead in Kent
Above Peaches Geldof pictured last year at the launch of the fourth-generation Mini. Peaches Geldof, daughter of Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates, has been found dead at an address in Wrotham, Kent. The ambulance service pronounced her dead, and police are working to establish the cause of death. A spokesman for Kent […]
Lucire features the first day of videos from the spring–summer 2014–15 collections at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia, including Aurelio Costarella and Carla Zampatti, and interviews with Costarella and Alex Perry. An extensive line-up of Hollywood goddess-inspired frocks was presented in Solaris, Aurelio Costarella’s spring–summer 2014–15 show. Costarella, once again, dares to dream and create […]
Hairstylist George González gives blow-out tips for Cindy Crawford’s look on Oprah’s Lifeclass
Hairstylist George González, of George the Salon, worked on supermodel Cindy Crawford’s hair for her guest appearance on Oprah’s Lifeclass on April 2. Says González, ‘I made sure to round brush starting at the bottom to build weight. Then, I finished the blowout by styling the sections at the top to minimize volume. The […]
Iranian-born Mahshid Mahdian wins Emerging Designers’ Award at ID Dunedin
Chris Sullivan/Seen in Dunedin Mahshid Mahdian, from Brera Academy, Milano, won the ID Dunedin Emerging Designers’ Award and its NZ$10,000 prize on Thursday night. Mahdian’s collection, Shadow, was inspired by shadows in Burano Island in Venezia, and features geometrical shapes and innovative technologies. The Tehrān-born designer was encouraged by Mittelmoda’s Stefano Sopelza to […]
Emma Watson, about to graduate, ponders the next stage of her life
Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Above Emma Watson at the Berlin première of Noah last month. Gracing the April issue of Elle Australia, Emma Watson gives readers the opportunity to realize that despite all her success, she just wants to be normal, and she doesn’t want to be criticized for calling an ‘eraser’ a ‘rubber’, a mistake, […]
