Ross Brown The Royal New Zealand Ballet premièred four new works tonight at the State Opera House, marking 125 years of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, the first country where women won the right to vote. Introduced by artistic director Patricia Barker, who had personal connections with each of the choreographers, the Strength & […]
Michael Kors launches third-generation smartwatches, including new Runway model
Michael Kors’s Access smartwatch collection, now in its third generation, sees the return of the Runway watch, but with new features, including heart-rate tracking, Google Assistant or Mobvoi Assistant, payment technology (Alipay or Google Pay), untethered GPS, and water resistance to 3 ATM. Wearers can show off their Instagram and Facebook photos on the watch […]
Behind the scenes with Lucire photographer Paula Sweet at the Ubud Village Jazz Festival
The typical offering of festival photographs usually includes moody musicians bathed in surreal light and smoke, enthusiastic crowds making the peace sign or holding lighters, and backstage views of musical instruments and equipment cases. Normally you don’t see the artistry from the photographer’s eyes. Lucire’s Paula Sweet covered the Ubud Village Jazz Festival and […]
On the Wellington high street: Mecca opens a new mega-store, while David Jones previews spring
What once housed the defunct Topshop in Wellington, New Zealand is now beauty mega-store Mecca. Combining the Cosmetica and Maxima concept stores, Mecca’s new 435 m² space will be the first of its kind in New Zealand, with offerings of over 100 exclusive brands. The open-plan design by O’Neil Langan also houses Mecca’s […]
Paula Sweet Above, from top: Insula’s Redha Benabdallah and Maher Beauroy. Javanese drummer. A traditional door at the museum. Traffic ground to a halt yesterday on the approach roads at the start of the sixth annual Ubud Village Jazz Festival, held in the gardens of the Art Museum in Ubud, Bali. Set among the traditional […]
Morgan and Pashley Cycles team up on hand-crafted bicycles
Morgan, best known for its hand-crafted cars with classical styling, and Pashley Cycles, the longest established British bicycle manufacturer, have teamed up to create two bicycles, the Pashley–Morgan 3 and the Pashley–Morgan 8. The new bicycles, launching this weekend, feature a hand-crafted frame and sporting features. The 8 features a frame-mounted race plate, black […]
Ford’s 10 millionth Mustang rolls off the production line
Ford has reached a milestone for its Mustang nameplate, with the 10,000,000th car coming off its production line at Flat Rock, Michigan. The 10,000,000th Mustang is a white convertible, with a 450 PS V8 under the hood. The specification is a tribute to the first serialized 1965 Mustang (retrospectively labelled a 1964½ model) that […]
San Francisco-based skin care power player Algenist is at it again, definitively proving that luxury retail skin care is more than pretty packaging and slick advertising. This principle was in action at a recent media launch party in downtown Los Angeles at the new Hudson Loft. The demonstrations revealed that microalgæ, the core of this […]
Estelle Curd crowned Miss Universe New Zealand 2018
Alan Raga Estelle Curd, a CRM, HR and H&S manager from Auckland, has been crowned Miss Universe New Zealand 2018 in front of a live audience at Skycity Theatre, watched by a local network TV audience on Bravo TV New Zealand and around the world on a live stream. The 27-year-old master’s degree holder […]
Doutzen Kroes and Hunkemöller preview Christmas campaign
Hunkemöller has previewed its Christmas lingerie campaign with Dutch model Doutzen Kroes. Kroes, who the label first signed for two years beginning in 2016, appears in the campaign with four models, Eli, Daria, Lieke and Bart. The Hunkemöller Christmas collection features lace, straps and rhinestones, in black, red, midnight blue and nude tones. […]
