Designer Trish Peng and florist Melissa Connor collaborate for New Zealand Flowers’ Week
Tom Hollow Designer Trish Peng has teamed up with the National Flower Promotion Group to celebrate New Zealand Flowers’ Week this week. A korowai was (traditional Māori cloak) covered in lilies by Melissa Connor of Melissa Jane Flower Studio, and paired with Trish Peng’s Hope gown. The concept originated with Connor, who first created […]
New launches: natural skin care solutions for the season
We haven’t sampled this new range yet, but we have heard that Dermaviduals has launched a customizable, pure line called Dermaviduals Deco. Dermaviduals’ managing director, Reika Roberts, notes: ‘Made from the highest quality ingredients, skin caring substances and natural moisturizers, Dermaviduals Deco is free from fragrances, preservatives, emulsifiers, artificial colours, mineral oils, silicones and amines. […]
Holden releases Equinox SUV, with segment-leading performance and value
Simon Watts/Holden Holden has shown its Equinox crossover to New Zealand media, at an event in the Taranaki, with an ambitious target to reclaim the C-segment SUV market. The Equinox—which our international readers may recognize with a Chevrolet badge—takes over from the Korean-sourced Holden Captiva, a car that débuted over a decade ago in […]
Gigi Hadid and Stuart Weitzman collaborate on two new shoe designs
Top: Stuart Weitzman creative director, Giovanni Morelli, with Gigi Hadid. Above: The Stuart Weitzman Eyelove collection. Model Gigi Hadid has collaborated on two more shoe designs with Stuart Weitzman, pointed-toe mules dubbed the Eyelove and Eyelovemore. A promotional film called The Season of Living, starring Hadid and directed by Cameron Duddy, has débuted to […]
A glimpse into £140 million of Ferraris at the Design Museum’s Ferrari: under the Skin exhibition
Luke Hayes As revealed in Lucire in September, the Design Museum has opened its exhibition celebrating Ferrari’s 70th anniversary, called Ferrari: under the Skin. We can now see inside the exhibition and some of the most coveted Ferrari models in history. The cars are worth £140 million. The exhibits include original drawings, and Enzo […]
Doing strategy: how Adidas is creating the new
When developing strategies, organizations look both forward and back. They draw on the capabilities that define the past and they look towards a shifting future to uncover opportunities. Yet as Leinward, Mainardi and Kleiner observe in their book Strategy that Works, there is a large gap between planning a strategy and executing it.¹ Managers rarely […]
Felicity Jones is Clé de Peau Beauté’s new face; campaign breaks January 2018
Dave J. Hogan/Getty Images Felicity Jones (BAFTA and Academy Award nominee for her role as Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything; and Jyn Erso in Rogue One: a Star Wars Story) is Clé de Peau Beauté’s latest spokeswoman, with her first appearance scheduled for January 2018. Jones succeeds Amanda Seyfried, who has represented […]
Above, from top: Faces at Behrman Public Relations’ post-Emmy party: photographer Karen French and model. Tafiq Akhir of Tafiq’s Physiques. At Organic Spa Magazine’s LA event: ISUN founder Bonnie Gulick. Chef Charles Chen. A Los Angeles Dodgers-headlining World Series aside, there’s no better place to spend an “Indian summer” night in southern California than on […]
Andreas Rentz, Matthias Nareyek, Gisela Schober, Franziska Krug Condé Nast’s German edition of GQ handed out its Men of the Year Awards at the Komische Oper in Berlin last night, with David Gandy, Philipp Lahm, Thom Browne, and the film Willkommen bei den Hartmanns among those honoured. Showing that GQ Deutschland put his infidelity […]
Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who costume revealed, along with a Tardis makeover
BBC/Steve Schofield The BBC has released its first official image of Jodie Whittaker in her new costume as the Doctor in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who. Since being announced as the first actress to take on the role, succeeding 12 men (more than that if guest actors, aborted series and the big-screen […]
