Lucire TV: fashion’s significant moments and trends of 2013
While we had our newsmakers, what else summed up 2013 in the fashion business? In a nutshell: Marc Jacobs’ departure from Louis Vuitton after 16 years and his last show at Paris Fashion Week, the return of Tom Ford and a big show to London, the revival of Schiaparelli under Christian Lacroix, the return […]
Ready for ’14: a new look for Lucire’s home page
Above Out with the old, in with the new—with J-Law doing the honours as the first cover girl of the new look. (It was Kylie Minogue a year ago.) Our home page has had a nip–tuck today. Well, it’s closer to a full redesign. During 2013, there seems to have been a trend toward […]
Polaroid projection: originality in the digital age
In a modern context, we look to social media to promote us and to expand our visibility in the world. Images are posted and reposted, only to be reposted again. Even this blog is an attempt to promote what I want the world to see of myself, to reach more people than I see in […]
British Airways celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema with Bollywood film event
British Airways’ film extravaganza, Silent Picturehouse, celebrated the centenary of Indian cinema in Mumbai last week, with Arjun Rampal, Malaika Arora Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Arjun Kapoor, Mandira Bedi, Chitrangda Singh, Minissha Lamba, and Sophie Choudry among the red-carpet VIPs. The event, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai, had Bollywood screenings in three cinemas […]
Lucire’s Instagram round-up, December 20
This week’s stylish Instagram moments include the absolutely stunning supermodel and former Victoria’s Secret “Angel” Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. This shot shows Rosie looking like a 1960s bombshell with big hair, winged lashes and a vixen-like expression: this look really suits her! Another awesome make-up look this week is from Miroslava Duma, who has become a regular […]
Kate Moss returns to front Stuart Weitzman’s spring 2014 campaign
Supermodel Kate Moss has continued her connection to Stuart Weitzman, this time modelling for its spring 2014 advertising campaign with images by Mario Testino. The chief image is simple, shot in black and white and with Moss donning Stuart Weitzman’s latest minimalist heel, called ‘The Nudist’. Her make-up has a nude look, and her […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
