http://lucire.com/insider Behind the scenes at the various editions and businesses of Lucire. Fri, 09 May 2008 11:37:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [Cross-posted] Sometimes I surprise myself on what comes up in blog comments. In a thread about the Iraq war and the short memories of nations over on Vox, I wrote the following. And as I wrote, I believed this to be a possible truth. To go forth in the future we ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080509/leadership-comes-from-the-grass-roots-not-institutions/ Neutrogena has partnered with Self magazine and Jennifer Garner to unveil what the company calls The Roadmap to Healthy Skin, a viral campaign discussing sun safety and skin cancer awareness.    The Roadmap appears in the May 2008 issue of Self, stressing the importance of self-examination to prevent skin cancer and ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080508/neutrogena-jennifer-garner-partner-on-sun-safety/ Some of the most famous women in the world are lending a hand to celebrate Moms this Mother’s Day and also raise awareness about an important women’s health issue affecting thousands of women each year.    Oprah Winfrey, Sharon Stone, Courteney Cox Arquette, Faith Hill, Jennifer Garner and Olivia Newton-John have ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080506/oprah-jennifer-garner-olivia-newton-john-and-others-auction-pink-gloves-for-charity/ More details are emerging about the Naomi Watts advertisements for Thierry Mugler Angel, from the New York, rather than French, end of the business: Naomi Watts was the inspired choice for Thierry Mugler, over and above her beauty and her star image. Displaying a modern touch, the actress projects a personality ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080506/more-on-the-naomi-watts%e2%80%93thierry-mugler-angel-campaign/ Chanel has chosen Jean-Pierre Jeunet to direct the next No. 5 advertising film, starring actress Audrey Tautou starring in the lead role.    Jeunet had directed Tautou already in the César- and BAFTA-winning Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie in English) and Un long dimanche de fiançailles (The Long Engagement). The ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080506/audrey-tautou-jean-pierre-jeunet-collaborate-on-chanel-no-5-ad/ Actress Naomi Watts is the new face of the Thierry Mugler Angel fragrance, it was announced ahead of her début at the Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.    The company says that Watts is ‘A true embodiment of the fragrance itself and all it ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080505/naomi-watts-is-new-face-of-thierry-mugler-angel-fragrance/ People has released its ‘Most Beautiful People in the World’ issue for 2008 and we have a few videos from our colleagues there from behind the scenes. Special LA correspondent Julie Jordan takes us through why Kate Hudson became the cover girl and narrates some footage of shoots for the ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080503/people-announces-most-beautiful-people-for-08/ Gisèle Bündchen, whose face promotes products from Disney to Nivea and Aquascutum, is the world’s top-earning model, according to Forbes.    The magazine’s latest table of what it calls the top 15—there are actually 16 models—puts Bündchen’s earnings over the last 12 months at US$35 million, more than double that of Heidi Klum, ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080502/forbes-lists-worlds-top-16-earning-models-and-supermodels/ I finally came across the full text of the press release attacking Massey University over its story on its alum Rhonda Grant, Miss Universe New Zealand’s second runner-up.    You can read the statement from the Association of University Staff’s president, Assoc Prof Maureen Montgomery, via Scoop. I think she was ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080502/easy-targets-from-the-anti-rhonda-grant-release/ Pageant judge and Lucire publisher Jack Yan has defended Miss Universe New Zealand second runner-up Rhonda Grant after criticisms about a Massey University story from the Association of University Staff.    ‘It’s the usual story of pulling down someone because of her looks or her success,’ he says. ‘I believe she’s been ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080501/miss-universe-new-zealand-judge-hits-back-at-criticisms-of-contestant/ It’s not that we haven’t kept up with the row over the Miley Cyrus photographs taken by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair, which sexualize the teenage star, but I have to draw the line somewhere when it comes to news coverage.    There are quarters in fashion publishing which would deem ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080430/the-sex-obsessed-world-of-the-miley-cyrus-photographs/ Our editor-at-large Summer Rayne Oakes has been named the fourth best dressed person by the Sustainable Style Foundation, up from fifth last year. Congratulations! Number one by ’09! http://lucire.com/insider/20080430/summer-rayne-oakes-ranked-fourth-best-dressed/ UK model of the moment, Agyness Deyn, will release a single, according to British media today.    It will be her first foray into music, in collaboration with New York-based band Five O’Clock Heroes.    Deyn contributed some vocals to the song, ‘Who’, and will appear in the video. http://lucire.com/insider/20080430/agyness-deyn-branches-into-music/ For those who felt that 13 Mbyte for the free 52 pp. Lucire PDF supplement was too much, we have now created a 72 dpi version at 6 Mbyte. The original theory was that if there are people downloading music and movies, then 13 Mbyte might not be too much—but ... http://lucire.com/insider/20080430/a-faster-download-for-the-free-lucire-supplement/ ‘Oh, duck! I canardly believe it! The new Mini Cooper S Clubman!’    One of the shots we won’t publish (in print) from my 35 mm roll. http://lucire.com/insider/20080430/ducks-and-mini/