Sweden inaugurates its first national marine park
Sweden has inaugurated its first marine national park on its west coast, near the Norwegian border. Both Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, and Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, inaugurated the park at Kosterhavet, 150 km north of Göteborg. Marine life at Kosterhavet includes species found nowhere else in Swedish waters, and is a […]
New in stores this autumn, Rebecca Manners has created a collection called Safari Stripes for Made. These have been created by Fair Trade artisans in Kenya, with prices beginning at £50 for the brass rings’ cuff. You may also like Miksani introduces Carbon Neutral fashion range Messika launches book charting its rise, with Alice Dellal, […]
CocoonU might have the finest cashmere scarves this winter
Don’t they look sumptuous? Better yet, these 100 per cent cashmere scarves from CocoonU are organically and ethically sourced, with yarn from outer Mongolia. There, because of the colder climates, a higher-quality, lighter yarn is sourced, and the company claims it helps supports the lifestyles of the nomadic herders in outer Mongolia. It also points […]
Our good friend Thomaz has been in Ecuador to photograph fashion week there, and we have some shots from the event last month. Meanwhile, we’d like to give Sharyn Steel’s Struggling to Fly a bit of a plug. Sharyn started off as the only woman journalist at a newspaper in 1969, and rose through […]
Tomorrow, blogs might even drive print magazines
The ‘Insider’ section has now been facelifted for the first time, bringing it in line with the new pages on the Lucire website. It has also dawned on us that this blog celebrates its second anniversary. Lucire was a late convert to blogging, even though I had been blogging away—on a very irregular basis—since […]
If you came via the home page today, then you’ll know Lucire has a new look on the web. We haven’t put this design on all the pages yet—obviously this page, at the time of writing, still has the old look. But we are continuing to roll it out across the site and all subsequent […]
Former Miss California, Carrie Prejean, sues over firing
Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California who was stripped of her title, is suing K2 Productions, the franchise owner of Miss California USA, according to court documents filed in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles on Monday. K2’s Keith Lewis, the pageant’s executive director, and Shanna Moakler, a former Miss USA, are named […]
ShowStudio gets exhibition at Somerset House
Naomi Campbell, Bring and Buy, ShowStudio, 2005. Copyright by Nick Knight. Beginning during London Fashion Week, Somerset House will present an exhibition on ShowStudio, founded by Nick Knight. In 2003, both Lucire and ShowStudio were vying for a prize in the same category in the Webby Awards—which ShowStudio deservedly took that year. The exhibition […]
Huffer releases limited range for the Warehouse to support Sign On
New Zealand retail chain, the Warehouse, and iconic Kiwi brand, Huffer, have joined forces with a limited-edition range selling at NZ$29·99. The partnership is part of the Sign On campaign to reduce greenhouse gases: the T-shirts include a swing tag that doubles as a postcard that can be sent in support of the campaign. There […]
Wellington, the way you want it
[Cross-posted] I’ve posted a few things that are relevant to Wellington—my home—over at our new site, Your Wellington (yourwellington.org). The one that has had the most feedback over the last 24 hours (both on the blog and on Twitter) is a post I made about free wifi in the city and the need to have […]
