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, […]
The US will vote on internet censorship: why this will matter to many of you
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 […]
Simon Cowell dons $65 Together bag; Bentley launches V8 Conti GT at £123,850
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 […]
Beyoncé Knowles talks 4; Transformers 3 hits Shanghai
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 […]
Global round-up: international fashion; Japanese inspiration; Jessica Alba talks motherhood
The main part of the Lucire website has had some international fashion round-ups. Not only have fashion editor Sopheak Seng and Paris editor Lola Saab made their picks from the New York fall collections (with more to come), but Joanna Mroczkowska has filed her report from Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week in Poland, and, importantly, Yuka […]
Entertainment news: Zhang Zi Lin on modelling; more from Fashion for Relief; Oprah’s farewell
Stéphane Kossmann/Renault/Getty Images China’s biggest model at present, former Miss World (2007) Zhang Zi Lin, one of L’Oréal Paris’s many faces, talks about her early aspirations, her career in modelling, and her Elie Saab (‘one of my favourite designers’) dress that she wore to the première of Tree of Life at the Festival de Cannes. […]
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt walk the red carpet, while Naomi Campbell puts on a charity show for Japan
Stéphane Kossmann/Renault/Getty Images Tree of Life’s première at the Festival de Cannes brought out star Brad Pitt and his wife, Angelina Jolie (in a strapless mocha-coloured Atelier Versace gown in silk mikado), probably the most recognized actress in the western world at the moment. Joining them on the red carpet were fellow stars Sean Penn […]
Ian Gavan Top Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon and John Taylor of Duran Duran. Above Vanessa Hudgens attends the Belvedere Red party at Cannes. Last year it was Cheryl Cole and de Grisogono, but this year, Duran Duran rocked the audience at a private party for Belvedere Red at the Festival de Cannes […]
Gong Li discusses career, beauty, and L’Oréal
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 […]
Citroën announces DS5 crossover at Auto Shanghai
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 […]
