Lucire
The global fashion magazine May 6, 2024 
Out now: Lucire issue 48, with free shipping for UK and US

Falvé: a high-quality entrant in menswear

March 17, 2013/9.21

Nikita Brown/Nikita Brown Photography For husband-and-wife team Dan and Emma Johnstone, design has always run deep within their blood, Dan with a background in graphics and Emma in fashion. So like all great things it was inevitable they would join forces. Their creation is the newly founded label Falvé (Emma’s maiden name).    Although a […]

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Home-town favourite, Rakel Blom, scoops top prize at ID International Emerging Designer Awards

March 14, 2013/19.41

Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography Otago Polytechnic graduate Rakel Blom won the ID International Emerging Designer Awards last night in Dunedin, with a collection that tapped into the Zeitgeist of global communities and cross-cultural connections.    Blom, who originally hails from Iceland, told Lucire, ‘My biggest passion is travelling,’ and that she had ventured through Asia […]

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Victoria’s Secret celebrates Swim 2013 in LA with Alessandra Ambrosio, Candice Swanepoel, Karlie Kloss

March 13, 2013/17.39

To commemorate Victoria’s Secret releasing the latest of its Swim 2013 catalogues, Alessandra Ambrosio, Candice Swanepoel and Karlie Kloss have modelled items from the collection in Los Angeles: the Fabulous push-up bikini, the Very Sexy bandeau, and the Unforgettable demi bikini. Victoria’s Secret also announces the return of the Beach Sexy Bikini Mixer, where customers […]

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Finnish designer Piia Hänninen débuts spring collection with revamped website

/11.22

Finnish designer Piia Hänninen, whose collections are based around sustainability and ethics, has relaunched her website with a new look, in time for her spring–summer 2013 season.    Hänninen’s new collection, Zebra in the Savannah, can be purchased via her website, while buyers and media can check out her autumn–winter 2013–14 collection, Wolf and Cherrywood. […]

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Rembrandt and Wayward Heir tell a sophisticated story for autumn–winter 2013

March 12, 2013/10.17

Top From Rembrandt, the navy pinstripe Cooper-Lotus suit with blue neat Metropolis shirt, striped Italian silk tie, paisley silk pocket square, and 1950s mother-of-pearl tie bar. Above Charcoal mouline Hawke-Lotus suit, with teal Fairlie V-neck jersey, white Metropolis shirt, bottle green Italian silk tie, and silver silk pocket square. One of New Zealand’s great names […]

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