Lucire
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Out now: Lucire issue 48, with free shipping for UK and US

Levi’s, Opening Ceremony launch collaboration

February 9, 2010/10.04

Ryan McGinley Levi’s and Opening Ceremony have announced a co-branded venture with a US-made range of cords. The spring 2010 collection, entitled Levi’s Cords by Opening Ceremony, takes the Levi’s 505 jean as a base and introduces a new palette of colours including teal, fuchsia, lavender, olive, curry, navy and optical white.    In addition […]

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Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief show at NYFW benefits CARE

February 5, 2010/17.33

Tickets have just gone on sale for Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief fashion show, to take place during the fall 2010 collections at New York Fashion Week.    Taking place on February 12 at 7 p.m., tickets cost between $100 and $150 and are available via Ticketmaster.com.    The runway show will be hosted by […]

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First official pic of the next Project Runway cast

December 16, 2009/12.44

Barbara Nitke One of the fashionistas’ favourite TV shows, Project Runway, returns on January 14, 2010, 10 p.m. EST/PST on Lifetime Television. The show returns to New York with Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and 16 new designers as they vie for a place at New York Fashion Week. You may also […]

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Claudia Schiffer and others commemorate children’s rights’ convention

November 9, 2009/21.48

The fall of the Berlin Wall is not the only 20th anniversary being celebrated this month. UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassadors have recorded a series of PSAs to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which takes place on November 20.    Supermodel Claudia Schiffer appears in one PSA (above) […]

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Twelve things you might not have known about Lucire

October 20, 2009/11.00

This post has gone online exactly 12 years since Lucire went live on the internet (October 20, 1997, 6 a.m. EST), to commemorate our anniversary.    Since those humble beginnings, Lucire has branched out from the web and into international print editions. And rather than go on about our history as we did in editions […]

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The Beautiful Life was out of step

September 27, 2009/1.39

The CW   Above Nico Tortorella and Mischa Barton in The Beautiful Life. We didn’t think the CW’s The Beautiful Life would last long, but we didn’t expect it to be canned after two episodes.    It didn’t help that one of its stars, Anglo-American actress Mischa Barton, sought psychiatric treatment months before the series’ […]

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Gisèle Bündchen is UNEP’s new ambassador

September 21, 2009/14.09

Today on the Lucire site: we have news that supermodel Gisèle Bündchen has followed in our footsteps by partnering with the UNEP. As Lucire pioneered the idea of partnering the UNEP with the fashion industry, we’re delighted to see the environmental organization find someone as high-profile as Gisèle.    Meanwhile, we have a road test […]

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Doloris Petuna jewellery now on sale in the UK

September 15, 2009/11.34

Courtney Prince’s Doloris Petunia jewellery is now available in the UK at the Hannah Zakari boutique. From New York, Prince’s range was named after her dog, and takes its inspiration from her 96-year-old grandmother, mixing the old with the new.    Hannah Zakari’s Rachael Lamb has the same tastes we do when she identifies the […]

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Honouring 9-11

September 11, 2009/14.07

I don’t think we could let September 11, 2009 pass without marking what had happened in the United States eight years ago. As with this year, the day fell during New York Fashion Week, and as the publisher I had a few things to contend with.    I had returned to Wellington from Manhattan only […]

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New York Fashion Week

September 10, 2009/9.59

And so it begins. New York Fashion Week, spring–summer 2010, sponsored once again by Mercedes-Benz. Brian Ach/Mercedes-Benz You may also like New York Fashion Week spring–summer 2013, day six: sparkling Custo Barcelona, NYFW autumn–winter 2009–10 American Express presents Diane von Fürstenberg—a special show for cardmembers Tommy Hilfiger, NYFW fall–winter 2009–10 Brian Reyes, NYFW fall–winter 2009–10 […]

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