Welcome to our 25th anniversary year
This year, 2022, marks our 25th anniversary. It is a landmark, and we’ve been incredibly blessed to have made it to a quarter-century. When I started Lucire I had hoped it would be around in 2022 and beyond, but I couldn’t have foreseen the many changes on our planet over the last 25 years. […]
During the course of 2021, I came across a number of magazine covers from the late 1960s and early 1970s. The era has been the subject of a few pieces from me in the print editions of Lucire, especially the stylistic parallels, but one thing that has not followed suit, apart from some independent […]
Two months: the long process of getting our Twitter account back
We don’t know if it was our letter to Twitter’s lawyers that did it, but as of the 17th—the deadline we gave Twitter for a response—we regained access to our account. The process from losing our account in October to the repeated attempts to regain it was unnecessarily drawn out and at times farcical. […]
A tribute to the uniquely creative and brilliant David MacGregor
Wayback Machine at Archive.org Above: A 2000 screenshot of Emale, created by David MacGregor. I was very saddened to learn of the passing of my friend David MacGregor, with whom this magazine collaborated in the early 2000s. But David was much more than the creator of Emale (eMALE in its official form), New Zealand’s […]
Revamping Lucire to look sharper on mobile devices
The astute among you will have seen some changes taking place on a few pages in Lucire’s online edition. First one article was switched to a new template, then it was the home page (where there’s a slider with three stories), and now all the news pages (which are run on the Wordpress content management […]
Manfred Baumann’s Face to Face shows intimate, personal celebrity portraits
Manfred Baumann Manfred Baumann has released a new book with celebrity shots, called Face to Face, featuring international stars who have posed for him and his Leica such as Martin Sheen, Olivia Newton-John, William Shatner, John Malkovich, Sylvester Stallone, Kathleen Turner, Ron Perlman, Thomas Kretschmann, Danny Trejo, Gene Simmons, Jean-Claude van Damme, T. J. Thyne, […]
Bienvenue à nos lecteurs français: Lucire KSA now published in English and French
Top and centre: Lucire KSA issue 31, in English and in French. Above: One of the articles in French inside the magazine. I’m very grateful to the team at Lucire KSA, who have created the first Lucire in French this month. They had an opportunity to reach Francophone readers, and the first issue is now […]
Made out of What?!: a digital magazine considers sustainability and style
How to merge sustainable vision and fashion? A tough call, and many are still rushing at the answer. A few years ago the American art visionary Denise Domergue established a not-for-profit to engage the first half of that question in the context of art. The Made Out of What?! initiative has mounted exhibitions, sponsored […]
Four faces on the rise getting noticed in social media
Felix Graf Alisia Ludwig Saloni Agarwal Anthony Evans We often look to see where the emerging talent is—once upon a time we identified nascent labels that became big, and we’ve occasionally done it with models and actors, too. German model Alexa Breit crossed the one million mark on her Instagram, rising rapidly from 2,000 […]
SMoss’s Great Again charts the course of the Trump presidency
Lucire travel editor Stanley Moss, writing as SMoss, has put together a limited edition volume documenting the presidency of Donald J. Trump, available in both a hardcover collectors’ edition and a smaller paperback. Entitled Great Again, the book begins with a cover showing a worn ‘Make America Great Again’ cap discarded on the […]
