Pioneering Korean designer André Kim, 74, dies
André Kim, 74, one of South Korea’s greatest fashion names, died Thursday night, his son Kim Joong-Do announced earlier today. André Kim was being treated for pneumonia at Seoul National University Hospital. He was admitted to hospital last month, and was also being treated for his earlier colorectral cancer. Kim was less […]
Free radicals from Starfish: fashion that moves
From top Starfish’s Bounce Boléro runner dress. The Springer frock. Four ways of wearing the Starfish Swirler. Starfish’s summer 2010–11 collection, Free Radical, is inspired by one of New Zealand’s modernist artist Len Lye’s fascination with art that moves, the mystery of motion and the celebration of energy that is life. Lye’s ideologies are […]
Prince Albert and Charlene Wittstock are engaged
HSH Prince Albert of Monaco II, 52, is engaged to his long-time girlfriend Charlene Wittstock, the Prince’s Palace announced today. Miss Wittstock, 32, a South African, is a former Olympic swimmer. No date has been set for the wedding, although by protocol it would have to be at least six months from the […]
Karen Elson, Libby Callaway speak at couture exhibition
Victoria & Albert Museum Above Zémire evening ensemble by Christian Dior, autumn–winter 1954–5. Cellulose acetate, with the skirt lined with layers of silk and net. The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tenn. is showing an exhibition entitled The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957, from June 18 to September 12. […]
Twilight film studio sues Bella Swan jacket designers
Above left The BB Dakota jacket at the core of the lawsuit. Above right Kristen Stewart, as Bella Swan, wearing the jacket. Summit Entertainment LLC, the studio behind the Twilight film franchise, is filing suit against BB Dakota, Modcloth and Metropark. BB Dakota created the jacket worn by Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan character in the […]
Renault, Mercedes-Benz make pushes in film
Getty Images Above Melissa Theuriau and Mathilda May at Cannes, stepping out of Renault Vel Satises. Craig Blankenhorn Above Carrie and co. with the new Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse cabriolet and the Maybach limousines. Two car companies really pushed their marketing last week. Renault has had fairly good exposure for its poor-selling Vel Satis saloon as the […]
Cannes closes with more glamour, and Emmanuelle Béart in a suit
We are as guilty as many media for covering a lot of the opening of the Festival de Cannes, but less of the closing. On the last few days, we spotted Mary J. Blige and Camilla Belle in Gucci, while at the closing ceremony last night, jury member Kate Beckinsale wowed us in Nina Ricci […]
From Cheryl Cole to the fitness “boot camp”
Sean Gallup for de Grisogono/Getty Images For those of you catching up with Lucire on your RSS feeds, a little note to say that we were among the first media to get you pics from Cheryl Cole’s performance at the de Grisogono dinner party, where she entertained some of the stars at the Festival de […]
Some of our favourite dresses (so far) at the 63rd Festival de Cannes
Getty Images Venturelli/WireImage Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Tony Barson/WireImage Olivier Borde/Getty Images Getty Images Giorgio Armani We promised readers late last week that we would have some images from the Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival) that were not from Giorgio Armani, who had sent us quite a few ahead of the other designers. […]
Armani shows its Cannes opening ceremony outfits
Giorgio Armani Here are some of the Armani-designed outfits from yesterday’s opening ceremony at the Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival). As revealed earlier this week in Lucire, Robin Hood star Russell Crowe wore a black one-button shawl collar microfibre Giorgio Armani tuxedo. His wife, Danielle Spencer, wore a Giorgio Armani Privé white silk […]
