Psy takes home four Mnet Asian Music Awards on ‘Gangnam Style’ wave
Psy, a.k.a. Park Jae-sang, took home four awards at the Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong on Friday, thanks to his hit ‘Gangnam Style’, which has surpassed even Justin Bieber in YouTube views, now numbering 850 million. He performed the song at the awards’ show and won awards for Song of the Year, […]
Montblanc announces Worldsecond project, taking snapshots of the world at 60 given seconds
A Lucire special promotion Montblanc, whom we feature regularly in these pages with its events, jewellery and other luxury products, has announced its Worldsecond project, specifically aimed at those using app-enabled smartphones. The Worldsecond project encourages people to take photos fromg their part of the world on their cellphones using the app, for both […]
Eva Herzigová opens luxury mall in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Vladimir Tretyakov/Getty Images Top Gregorio Marsiaj, Eva Herzigová, Capital Partners’ CEO Burak Oymen and model Teresa Maxova at the opening of Almaty’s Esentai Mall. Above A model on the catwalk during a fashion show to celebrate the launch of Capital Partners’ Esentai Mall. Forget the Romania-filmed parody of Kazakhstan in a certain American film: the […]
Paul Tanner Top Jessica Minh Anh of J Model Management poses on board Le Jean Bruel, wearing Les Folies De. Above War on Want campaigner Vera Weghmann puts a ’34p’ tag on an Adidas product at its flagship store in London. Lucire always looks after its alumni: Samantha O’Reilly, who was interning here last month, […]
Vogue Archive goes online for free for Wellington library users
Top The screen which you arrive at after clicking through to the Vogue Archive. Above A Jean Shrimpton spread from the Archive. Anyone with a current Wellington City Library card—one that has been active in the past two years—now has access to the entire archive of Vogue (the US edition) from 1892, for free. […]
Adidas and Alfred Dunhill have unveiled new videos showing off their products, while World has released a video featuring the making of its new flagship Britomart store. Adidas’s ‘Adidas Is All in’ campaign has new creative, with 30- and 60-second spots, featuring brand ambassadors such as FIFA World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, […]
MAC collaborates with photographer Chen Man on make-up range
Showing that fashion and beauty are moving eastward, MAC Cosmetics has teamed up with Beijing photographer Chen Man (陳曼), best known for her work for Shanghai’s avant-garde fashion magazine Vision. MAC calls the Chenman range, subtitled Love & Water, a ‘bold, sensual and lyrical colour collection’, based around her fascination for love and water, […]
Miss France and Scarlett Johansson among our most popular articles in ’11
TF1 Above Delphine Wespiser soon after being crowned as Miss France. Our article on her win was the most-read this year. Last year, quite a few readers were interested in the most visited news articles on the Lucire website. This excludes the features we have on the main part of the site. Nevertheless, it gives […]
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. […]
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol has German première alongside BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept
Andreas Rentz/Getty Images/Paramount Pictures We haven’t followed the press juggernaut for Tom Cruise’s new film, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (notice the shift of the colon from the original Mission: Impossible title in everything but the official logo) as it made its way from the Far East to western Europe, but the German première at BMW […]
