BCBG Max Azria releases Magnum Belgian Chocolate Wrap, fashion with a chocolate scent
Top The BCBG Max Azria for Magnum Belgian Chocolate Wrap. Above BCBG Max Azria chief creative officer Lubov Azria modelling the wrap. Unilever’s Magnum already established itself as a fashionable brand, teaming up years ago with Karl Lagerfeld and Rachel Bilson. This time, Magnum has teamed up with BCBG Max Azria with their BCBG Max […]
HTC taps into body art for One M9; Jourdan Dunn fronts campaign
HTC’s One M9 cellphone will get a body art-inspired design with a limited edition to be released this year, as part of its HTC Ink campaign. The design, by Cally-Jo Pothecary, will be engraved on the back of some of the M9s, while HTC will also release temporary, metallic body-art transfers to consumers. […]
Nepal earthquake advice and list of aid agencies
The horrors of the earthquake in Nepal will be known to most readers by now, with the latest death toll at 3,700 at the time of writing. The news has hit home more as one of the juniors on our team, Kayla Newhouse, was in Kathmandu on Saturday. She remains there with water and […]
Jacob’s Creek introduces Double Barrel range—red wines aged in whisky barrels—in New Zealand
Jacob’s Creek’s new Double Barrel range has made it across the Tasman, with Kiwis now able to sample chief winemaker Bernard Hickin’s successful concept of finishing wine in aged whisk(e)y barrels, the reverse of ageing whisky in old wine barrels. He believes that this hasn’t been done before, and the company has opted to use […]
The Royal Ballet announces its 2015–16 programme, including four world premières
Above Steven McRae as Florizel in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale, which will be revived for the Royal Ballet’s 2015–16 season. Photograph copyright ©2014 by Johan Persson. Above Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, performed in 1965. Photograph copyright ©1965 by Leslie E. Spatt. The Royal Ballet has announced its 2015–16 season under its director, Kevin […]
Coachella west: rocking at Debbie Durkin’s Rock ’n’ Rolla Ecoluxe Lounge at the Avalon
The Emmy Awards kick off the protracted fall—winter “award show season”, and of course, Emmys’ week would never be a true pre-party without the presence of Debbie Durkin (@producerdeb on Twitter), noted sustainable TV–film product-placement professional. However, as the MTV Movie Awards and the internationally covered Coachella music festival outside Palm Springs, Calif. mark the […]
IWC Schaffhausen hosts 2015 Beijing International Film Festival dinner; Peter Chan honoured
Emmanuel Wong In Lucire 30’s ‘Red alert’ by Geneviève Hole, we noted how brands continued to focus their attentions eastward, and the trend continues with IWC Schaffhausen sponsoring its third Beijing International Film Festival. The fifth edition of the festival sees IWC return as an official sponsor and partner, spying an opportunity to promote […]
It’s all about the eyes with the Body Shop’s latest releases
The Body Shop focuses on the eyes with its latest releases. It has launched two Matte Kajal eyeliners, in white and black. One complaint we often see at Lucire with kohl eyeliners is the difficult application, especially as some need three or four passes before getting any colour. The Body Shop’s Italian-made Matte Kajals—the Body […]
John Varvatos opens in Detroit with black-carpet party, with Alice Cooper rocking his best
Loreen Sarkis Tasos Katopodis Detroit is undergoing a renaissance, at least in terms of its reputation across the US. A few years ago, Eminem promoted Chrysler as being proudly from Detroit, a city that has been through it all, and John Varvatos now celebrates the place with a new store, opening with a VIP party […]
Camilla Rutherford Perriam, the luxury merino label from Christina Perriam, will show at ID Dunedin Fashion Week next week. The event begins on April 18 and runs to April 26. The last time she showed was under the Christina Perriam label in 2002. Her autumn–winter 2015 collection is structured and edgy, using New Zealand-sourced […]
