E! says Karolína Kurková is world’s sexiest woman
Above: Karolína Kurková in La Perla, as featured in Lucire in 2001. E! Entertainment Television has named Karolína Kurková as the world’s sexiest woman for 2008. Model Bar Rafaeli and actress Angelina Jolie took second and third places. Rounding off the top 10 were Gisèle Bündchen, Scarlett Johansson, Adriana Lima, Heidi Klum, Penélope […]
Charlize Theron, UN Messenger of Peace
In the main part of our site today, photographs of and quotations from Charlize Theron as she is inducted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a Messenger of Peace, focusing on violence against women. As we reveal, this matter is very near and dear to Theron’s heart, and she has spent a great deal […]
‘Milliner to the stars’ opens showroom
Her handiwork has dazzled on the dance floor, won awards and is set to feature in Peter Jackson’s upcoming film The Lovely Bones. Such is the demand for her fancy hats and quirky fascinators that milliner Amy Jansen-Leen has opened her first atelier—Amy Jansen-Leen Millinery—in Te Aro, Wellington. With the race day season kicking […]
La Milonga: romance and tango at Miami Short Film Festival
Wandering Films and Minx Films’ short film, La Milonga, has been chosen as an official selection of the Miami Short Film Festival. The festival will take place November 17–23. La Milonga will screen on November 20 at 7 p.m. at the Tower Theater. Now in its seventh year, the Miami Short Film Festival was […]
I have a feeling that tomorrow, we will hear that the Ford Ka, as driven by Olga Kurylenko in Quantum of Solace, will be European Car of the Year. It has a good chassis, it’s a subcompact car that ?ts modern European sensibilities, and it has cross-Europe appeal. Our second pick would be the Alfa […]
Omega has launched a Quantum of Solace special watch, tying in to the new MGM–Columbia Pictures movie starring Daniel Craig. The watch that Craig, as Ian Fleming’s agent James Bond 007, wears is in fact different from the promoted one, which you can get a preview of in this commercial. You may also like Chanel […]
Celebrating the US presidential election
It’s no surprise that some celebrities ranging from Peter Fonda to Heidi Montag got out in anticipation of an Obama win in the US presidential elections last night, and US west coast editor Elyse Glickman and correspondent Leyla Messian were out to cover them. While in most elections, people would stay at home, we noted […]
A look back at Kari’s Golden Globes suite ’08
For one reason or another, we didn’t get a chance to run the images from January’s Golden Globes Suite that Kari Feinstein organized. But these are too good to pass up, so before they get archived, they get shared. It’s been a while since we’ve seen Scott Baio. Clockwise from top: Jodi Lyn O’Keefe […]
Bond and feminism: our preview of Quantum of Solace
Olga Kurylenko as Camille, entering Medrano’s suite at Perla De Las Dunas, Bolivia, in Eon Productions’ Quantum of Solace. Photographed by Karen Ballard. With the worldwide première of the new James Bond ?lm, Quantum of Solace, almost upon us, we decided to run an article originally destined for the print edition of Lucire online today. […]
Zack and Miri’s title’s in the name of fun
Readers may have noticed a few ads on the Lucire site for the Kevin Smith movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Don’t worry: we haven’t gone R18 on the audience: it is a comedy and if you do click through, there’s nothing objectionable. The mini-site itself has an age verification page just to be […]
