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MAC collaborates with photographer Chen Man on make-up range

March 13, 2012/0.30

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, […]

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The US will vote on internet censorship: why this will matter to many of you

January 17, 2012/12.33

How appropriate that the 2,000th entry in the ‘Insider’ section of the Lucire website would be devoted to something very important to the internet.    On January 24, the US will vote on internet censorship, despite the opposition of the majority of American citizens, with the Protect-IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop […]

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Simon Cowell dons $65 Together bag; Bentley launches V8 Conti GT at £123,850

January 13, 2012/14.58

Nothing like a celebrity endorsement to get the press noticing. And this time, it’s Simon Cowell, who has been spotted on a Slipstream superyacht docked at St Bart’s with a Together bag, from designers Thursday Friday.    A Twitter user alerted Thursday Friday, a label that launched in December 2010, founded by Olena Sholomytska and […]

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Beyoncé Knowles talks 4; Transformers 3 hits Shanghai

July 15, 2011/12.44

Paramount Pictures/Getty Images Beyoncé Knowles talks about her growing up, provides some footage of her performing as a child, and shows some of the behind-the-scenes preparations for her album, 4, in the clip below.    The album is still holding on to its number-one slot for the second week. The name is derived from Knowles’s […]

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Gong Li discusses career, beauty, and L’Oréal

May 13, 2011/10.29

With Gong Li the most searched-for celebrity yesterday on this website, here’s an interview with the famed Chinese actress from Cinémoi, recorded at the Festival de Cannes on day one.    Through an interpreter, Li, wearing Lanvin, discusses her career, her aim to have control over her roles (‘I choose the film I love the […]

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Citroën announces DS5 crossover at Auto Shanghai

April 18, 2011/23.37

Citroën has announced its DS5 at Auto Shanghai, the Shanghai Motor Show. Originally touted as a crossover (blending saloon, coupé and off-roader), the result is more a sleek all-wheel-drive hatchback that carries on the design theme of the smaller DS3 and DS4.    The DS5 features Citroën’s Hybrid4 diesel technology: 200 PS, four-wheel drive, electric […]

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