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Von Avi announces Amelia competition

November 19, 2009/23.35

Wanaka, New Zealand-based fashion accessories’ brand Von Avi, known for its handbags constructed from aircraft aluminium, is giving away an aviation-themed prize pack to coincide with the release of the film Amelia.    The pack is valued at NZ$1,200, and comprises the Bar Fly handbag constructed with aircraft aluminium (left), solid rivets and solid brass […]

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Twilight’s Christian Serrato appears nude in PETA’s latest campaign

November 13, 2009/0.23

Christian Serratos’s new poster for PETA, one of the long-running ‘I’d rather go naked than wear fur’ series, is well timed to promote the new movie, Twilight: New Moon.    The youngest actress to have appeared in one of the advertisements—Serrato is 19—her poster has imagery intended to remind audiences of the vampire flick, right […]

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Scarlett smoulders in retro campaign for Dolce & Gabbana

November 12, 2009/11.08

Earlier this year, Dolce & Gabbana broke its first campaign featuring actress Scarlett Johansson. In the latest advertisements for the brand’s l’Eau the One, Johansson is back, shot in black and white with a 1950s’ retro style. Our verdict: it’s great that D&G is celebrating curves over the waif look, and Johansson is a great […]

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Zhang Ziyi opens Omega’s flagship boutique in Singapore

October 30, 2009/3.11

Cindy Crawford may get in a western audience, but in the east, it’s Zhang Ziyi (章子怡) whom Omega relies on to give it the glamour factor.    The international Chinese film star launched its flagship boutique at ION Orchard in Singapore along with the latest Constellation collection on Tuesday. An exhibition for the Constellation range […]

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Chic runs from Petone to Paris

October 18, 2009/8.49

Douglas Rimington On the main part of the Lucire site today is a special travel promotion on Petone, a place which really surprised us. The historical area on Jackson Street is full of surprises, and for Wellingtonians who hold on to decades’ old views about what Petone is like, cast aside your notions. Jackson Street, […]

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Cindy Crawford, George Clooney rushing between dos

October 16, 2009/20.17

Omega Top The Saatchi Gallery with the new Omega advertisements up. Centre Cindy Crawford. Above George Clooney. Cindy Crawford, George Clooney and other celebs rushed from the première of Roald Dahl’s Fabulous Mr Fox to attend the launch of an Omega advertising campaign which features them. Still wearing their evening gear from the première, the […]

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Chanel to launch Coco Cocoon line, with Lily Allen fronting campaign

October 2, 2009/10.14

Some of you will have seen the ads for Coco Before Chanel on this website (currently on at the Penthouse Cinema here in Wellington), on the eve of its release in New York and Los Angeles. But in the real world of Chanel, we can show the below video featuring Lily Allen, the face of […]

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At the Venice Film Festival

September 4, 2009/13.11

Getty Images Here’s Rec 2 star Manuela Velasco—known to some readers as Ana Valverde in the hit Antena 3 series La chica de ayer (the Spanish Life on Mars remake)—wearing her Jæger-LeCoultre watch at the photo call for her film at the Venice Film Festival. She’s one of many stars at the Mostra Internazionale, which […]

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Elle Macpherson, filmed from her bedroom

September 2, 2009/14.09

To promote the new Elle Macpherson Intimates collection Bedtime Stories, the supermodel herself reads Tennessee Williams’s ‘Life Story’ in this promotional film for Bendon. You may also like Elle Macpherson Intimates enters continental European market It’s Heidi Klum Intimates as the German model takes over from Elle Macpherson at Bendon AmFAR auction brings out Naomi […]

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Olga Kurylenko models for 2010 Campari calendar: behind the scenes

July 22, 2009/14.49

We will have more shots of Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) modelling the 2010 Campari calendar shortly, but to whet your appetite, here are some of the making-of as it took place in Milano. Filippo Mutani is the photographer of these behind-the-scenes shots, while Simone Nervi is doing the honours for the actual calendar. Emily […]

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