Above: Karolína Kurková modelling the Victoria’s Secret–Hearts on Fire Fantasy Bra in 2006. Model Karolína Kurková and her fiancé Archie Drury have issued a statement saying the couple are expecting their first child. Kurková joins the other models of her era who are expecting children, including Gisèle Bündchen and Adriana Lima. Kurková, who models […]
Kate Moss tipped to join forces with Simon Cowell, Sir Philip Green
Left: Kate Moss’s Topshop range has been a success for the high street chain. Reports are emerging today, initially from an English tabloid, that supermodel Kate Moss will join forces with Sir Philip Green, the owner of Topshop, which whom she already cooperates, and Britain’s Got Talent’s Simon Cowell in a new business venture. […]
This came in from Mint Condition, the PR company and showroom in Auckland, New Zealand. We love the homage to Saul Bass, never mind that the labels being sold are really good! You may also like Behind the scenes of our 25th anniversary cover New Zealand Fashion Museum tells the El Jay story at Kirkcaldie’s […]
Getty Images On the site today: assistant fashion editor Bronwyn Williams talks about trends for 2011. A few weeks ago, we attended presentations from the Massey University trends’ students, and we found that the majority of forecasts they identified were in line with our thinking. Bron elaborates on these more, as well as the key […]
Twiggy’s 60th birthday exhibition hits London, September 19
Above: The iconic image of Twiggy, aged 16 and weighing 90 lb, photographed by Barry Lategan in 1966. It has been known that a book celebrating Twiggy’s 60th birthday, Twiggy: a Life in Photographs, will be published by the National Portrait Gallery this year, but only today has news emerged about the dates for an […]
Hong Kong Fashion Week opens, with sizeable exhibits
Hong Kong Fashion Week—more a trade fair than the fashion weeks that Lucire traditionally covers—opened at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on July 6, with 1,100 exhibitors taking part for the spring–summer 2010 season. We have some sights from the exhibitions and sound bites from this spectacular, and very comprehensive, event. The event […]
This combines not only Lucire’s beliefs in being kind to the environment—unlike other magazines, our association with the United Nations Environment Programme goes back to 2003, and we’ve been eco-minded for years before that—but my love of typography. New Zealand label Was makes its bags from recycled billboards, so there’s every chance one can get […]
Supermodel Christy Turlington returns in YSL campaign
Supermodel Christy Turlington, 40, is the new face of Yves Saint Laurent, fronting the fashion house’s autumn–winter 2009–10 campaign. Previously, Claudia Schiffer, one of Turlington’s contemporaries, had been the face of Yves Saint Laurent advertising. The campaign has been photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. The last YSL campaign to feature […]
Welcoming ‘techfashion’ at W-41
After assistant fashion editor Bronwyn Williams, intern Alice Palmer and I attended the trends’ presentations at Massey University yesterday (which were, incidentally, impressive), it was interesting to see this Dutch label, W-41, embracing another emerging trend: that of combining technology with fashion. At least one group of students touched on this, and seeing it in […]
AnnaLynne McCord, 2009’s “it girl”?
We’ve been noticing AnnaLynne McCord in more photographs of late in Lucire, and we wonder: is she the new “it girl” of 2009? McCord was spotted at the Raise Hope for the Congo event at Jane’s House in Hollywood on June 28, in an Eva Culture black strapless rusched dress (available at Curve) and Marcia […]
