Dita von Teese joins fans in Melbourne to celebrate her new Von Follies lingerie collection
Lucas Dawson/Lucas Dawson Photography The people at Style Counsel are as good as their word, sending us these photographs from last Friday’s “black carpet” event at the Urban by Target store on Chapel Street, Melbourne, starring Dita von Teese. The American burlesque dancer and celebrity, who has launched her Von Follies lingerie collection in […]
MAC collaborates with photographer Chen Man on make-up range
Showing that fashion and beauty are moving eastward, MAC Cosmetics has teamed up with Beijing photographer Chen Man (陳曼), best known for her work for Shanghai’s avant-garde fashion magazine Vision. MAC calls the Chenman range, subtitled Love & Water, a ‘bold, sensual and lyrical colour collection’, based around her fascination for love and water, […]
Bobbi Kristina Brown speaks out about Whitney Houston on Oprah special
As previewed last week in Lucire, Oprah Winfrey interviewed Whitney Houston’s brother, Gary, her sister-in-law, Patricia, and her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, for a special episode of Oprah’s Next Chapter. The special managed to achieve record ratings for Winfrey’s network, OWN, with 3½ million total viewers. In the clip below, Winfrey talks to Bobbi […]
Pirelli showcases its latest fashion alongside winter tyres at sub-zero event
Pirelli held its Snow on Board event at the Igora Park skidrome north of St Petersburg earlier today, showing off not just its tyres, but its latest snowboard developed with Burton, and its new-season Pzero fashion items. On board were F1 driver Vitalij Petrov, and Russian models Eugenia Volodina (who featured in the 2005 Pirelli […]
Taylor Swift is music industry’s biggest earner, says Billboard
Royal Caribbean Above Taylor Swift performing on Allure of the Seas, last year. Swift, the biggest earner in music in 2011 in the US, got to the top slot through sales, royalties and touring. Below left Swift’s highly successful Speak Now album. Billboard has put 22-year-old country star Taylor Swift in top spot as the […]
Lacoste Live heads to Brooklyn for spring 2012 campaign
A Lucire special promotion Mark Hunter Last September, Lacoste took its Live campaign to Berlin. This season, for spring 2012, it’s Brooklyn, New York, with a campaign featuring street tape artist Aakash Nihalini, Amanda Warner from the electro duo MNDR and Leyla Safai from the punk–hip-hop group HeartsChallenger. It’s fitting, too, that the spring […]
Behind the scenes at Vivienne Westwood Gold Label
Stanley Moss Top Vivienne Westwood being interviewed at the after-party in Paris. Typical reports on the runway shows in Paris focus on fashion fashion fashion. We need to be reminded that months of preparation precede this 20-minute walk in the sun, an atmospheric explosion of sound and light and motion. Lucire was invited by […]
Rihanna appears in steamy Armani jeans commercial
Rihanna has appeared in a new minute-long advertisement for Armani jeans, with the singer heading to Twitter to tell her fans, ‘Enjoy.’ While selling jeans, the black-and-white footage largely features the singer wearing underwear. The ad is literally steamy: in the commercial, Rihanna turns on the hot water tap in her bathroom, the […]
Oprah Winfrey interviews Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and other family
Oprah Winfrey has interviewed Whitney Houston’s brother, sister-in-law and daughter for a special commemorating the late singer airing this weekend on her own network. In the video clip below, Patricia Houston was asked if she expected her sister-in-law would die an early death. She replied, ‘The handwriting was kind of on the wall. […]
Paris Fashion Week, autumn–winter 2012–13: Collette Dinnigan, Akris, Anthony Vaccarello, Elie Saab
Piero Biasion/BIA As Paris Fashion Week begins drawing to a close, we show off photographs from Collette Dinnigan, and videos from Akris, Anthony Vaccarello, and Elie Saab. Collette Dinnigan showed a romantic collection in the ballroom of Le Meurice Hotel, but it was tinged with a darker feel. The collection, entitled Highlander, took inspiration […]
