Source4Style launches today, seeking to revolutionize the business of fashion
Summer Rayne Oakes and Benita Singh’s Cartier award-winning venture, Source4Style, which helps designers source sustainable fabric through a well designed, transparent website, launches its second version today. Lucire has the low-down in the main part of the site, and this story forms part of some of our next 2012 print and other non-web editions. […]
Summer Rayne Oakes’s Extinction shown in full, online, for a limited time
Summer Rayne Oakes, who has a long association with Lucire, tells us that her short film, Extinction (eXtinction to give its official capitalization) can be viewed for a very limited time (a total less than two days from the time of this post) on Dailymotion. You can view the film at this link or […]
Bees Blessing launches premium, all-natural cordials
Stephanie Osmond Earlier this month, Bees Blessing launched its new range of all-natural cordials at the Empire in Petone, New Zealand, serving food and drinks, and demonstrating recipes (including lemon honey mojitos, cucumber socks fizz and spiced syrup marinade). The new range comprises New Zealand’s only honey-sweetened all-natural cordials, says the company, which makes […]
Collective thinking puts Starfish on the catwalk
Above Starfish’s Laurie Foon, championing sustainability and living the brand. As a pioneer in the field of ethical business practices and sustainability, it should come as no surprise that New Zealand designer Starfish is the first fashion label to win a New Zealand Sustainable Business Award. Appropriately, Starfish director and head designer Laurie Foon has […]
Scarlett Johansson, Archbishop Tutu and others highlight food crisis forecast by Oxfam
Scott Weiner/Calvin Klein Cosmetics If recent food price rises have families in shock, Oxfam has a worse outlook in the next 20 years if urgent action is not taken to change the system, says the charity charged with fighting global poverty. Oxfam’s Growing a Better Future report forecasts that maize and other key staples […]
At Cannes: Fan Bing Bing, Sonam Kapoor, Niels Schneider, and Tree of Life
Stéphane Kossmann/Renault/Getty Images Above Sonam Kapoor (in Jean Paul Gaultier) and Fan Bing Bing raise the glamour stakes at the Cannes Film Festival. Celebrities on the red carpet on Sunday included Sonam Kapoor, Vincent Perez, Olivia Ruiz, Michèle Laroque, Fan Bing Bing, Jacques Lang, Michel Hazanavicius and Jean Dujardin. Among our interviewees, brought to […]
Eco-fashion label EcoSkin now distributed in the UK by Kailique
US eco-fashion label EcoSkin, founded by Sandy Skinner, has delivered collections for a few years—and has now found an exclusive UK distributor, Kailique. EcoSkin is best known for pioneering the use of Sorona corn, a polymeric fibre manufactured by du Pont in an environmentally sound way. The company claims that Sorona production requires 30 […]
A honey theme drives Louis Vuitton’s windows
Stephane Muratet In April 2009, Louis Vuitton installed three beehives on the roof of its Parisian HQ on the rue de Pont Neuf. Its first batch of honey is now ready for spring, celebrated through creative displays at many of its store windows worldwide till May. It is a nod to biodiversity. As Louis […]
The Jojoba Company to launch natural skin care range in New Zealand
The Jojoba Company’s natural skin care range, based on pure Australian jojoba, will be released through pharmacies in New Zealand in February. Pure Golden Jojoba, the hero product of the range, is said to nourish and moisturize skin ‘remarkably close to our body’s naturally produced sebum that skin instantly accepts and absorbs it,’ according […]
Hélèna Christensen on climate change: politicians’ ‘groundhog day’ is costing lives
Hélèna Christensen is one of the most active supermodels: today as an Oxfam Global Ambassador and photographer, she is raising awareness of climate change. Through her photography, Christensen has been documenting the plight of villages that are experiencing more extreme weather patterns. Christensen’s photographs will be exhibited in 2011–12 to continue raising awareness […]
