Alexander McQueen’s Sarah Burton triumphs at Paris Fashion Week with autumn–winter 2012–13
Sarah Burton triumphed in Paris in her fourth collection for Alexander McQueen. The McQueen brand has been about blending the fantastic with elegance, taking fashion beyond its accepted boundaries without losing mainstream appeal. It’s meant to be a challenge to our expectations, and the autumn–winter 2012–13 collection was no exception, with Burton building on […]
Paris Fashion Week, autumn–winter 2012–13: Giambattista Valli, Chloé, Pedro Lourenço
Our latest Paris Fashion Week autumn–winter 2012–13 videos feature Giambattista Valli, Chloé and Pedro Lourenço, as well as a new highlight reel. Giambattista Valli also took a geometric approach for autumn–winter 2012–13, with prints for dresses, tops and trousers. He also adopted plaid and a tweed look, and wasn’t afraid of injecting colour—red, usually […]
Lamborghini shows its ‘extreme’ Aventador J; Rolls-Royce updates Phantom range to Series II
Top Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Lamborghini and the new Aventador J. Above Rolls-Royce has updated its Phantom line to Series II. Lamborghini has shown its Aventador J at the Salon de Genève. A barchetta design with two small wind deflectors—making it the lowest car the Italian exotica manufacturer has ever made—the J is […]
Paris Fashion Week, autumn–winter 2012–13: Costume National, Issey Miyake
Above Issey Miyake began his show by demonstrating the innovative steam-stretch fabric on the catwalk. Both Costume National and Issey Miyake pushed envelopes at Paris Fashion Week: one stylistically, the other technologically. Costume National’s New Wave, No Wave, Dark Wave collection for autumn–winter 2012–13 was explained in Ennio Capasa’s show notes: ‘My women have […]
Our latest three videos from Paris Fashion Week’s autumn–winter 2012–13 shows are from Haider Ackermann, Viktor & Rolf and Vivienne Westwood Gold Label. Haider Ackermann showed one of the best collections at Paris this season: a dramatic, stylish affair with an ingenious use of folds and flaps in his jackets, high-waisted trousers, curved panelled […]
Breitling and Omega release watches to celebrate Bentley and James Bond
Breitling has released a limited-edition run of its Bentley GMT chronograph with a second time-zone display. There are 250 pieces of the new watch, which features an exclusive rubber strap, the Calibre Breitling 47B certified movement, 38 jewels and water resistance to 100 m. The dial measures 49 mm. These days, James Bond wears […]
We have two more videos from Paris Fashion Week—Isabel Marant and Sonia Rykiel—and one from Christian Louboutin’s show at the Crazy Horse cabaret. Isabel Marant’s cowboy shirts and bright jeans made the American frontier very feminine, complemented by suede trousers, satin shirts, lace blouses and cowboy boots. Pink, red, navy and gold kept the […]
Lady Gaga is giving back with the Born This Way Foundation. The new foundation, set up by Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta, was launched at an event hosted by Oprah Winfrey at the Sanders Theater at Harvard University. The star has put up US$1·2 million of her own money to get it […]
Sponsored video: Twinings débuts second animated ad, Hill
A Lucire special promotion It’s been a few years since we caught up with Stephen Twining and the events at his firm, but our British readers will have been seeing Twinings’ animated advertisements on the site over the last few weeks. The next instalment, entitled Hill, and the reason for this sponsored post, follows […]
Making sharing simpler (we hope)
Top The old news page layout, with two sets of buttons. Above Slimmed down as of today, hopefully making things easier to understand. We’ve had a very minor nip-tuck to our news pages, and if readers have few issues with it, we’ll be rolling out these changes to the rest of the site gradually. […]
