Leona Lewis is the Body Shop’s new ‘brand activist’
After a successful year where Lily Cole promoted the Body Shop through her channels, the ethical beauty retailer has announced that Leona Lewis will be its new ‘brand activist’, to use the company’s term. It’s not altogether inaccurate: instead of simply posing in photo shoots for the brand, the Body Shop expects that its […]
Paula Sweet The area around Palm Springs, California has made a gradual transformation in recent history from retirement community to trendy retreat. Known internationally for its film festival, music festival, as a tennis and golf paradise, gay destination, and popular health tourism mecca, the desert community has a new aspect that goes beyond simple cosmetic […]
The Body Shop releases new lip gloss, Rainforest hair oil, all with Fair Trade coconut oil
These smell fantastic and fruity—and their formula contains vitamins E and B5, and Community Fair Trade organic virgin coconut oil. The Body Shop’s latest lip glosses are released in nine new shades in flavours (this is not an understatement—you should see how this office smells) of plum, peach, strawberry, mango, lychee, coconut and watermelon, among […]
Video: media catch Prince William departing hospital after visiting Duchess of Cambridge
The British media have been going all out in the last day covering the pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, with news that she has been admitted to King Edward VII Hospital with acute morning sickness. Journalists, photographers and TV camera operators were stationed outside the Hospital to catch a […]
Summer Rayne Oakes’s Extinction, on environmental challenges, goes live on Vimeo, YouTube
Summer Rayne Oakes’s environmental short art film, Extinction (or eXtinction to give the official title), has just gone live at Vimeo and YouTube. Summer Rayne, who appears in the 2013 Pirelli calendar shot by Steve McCurry, made Extinction in 2011, when it did the circuit at various film festivals across the world. The […]
Project Born’s 2012 show slicker and more imaginative than ever
Dusk VFX/© Project Born Ltd. Kerp Photography/© Project Born Ltd. Having attended the first Project Born, I thought I would have been prepared for what the cast and crew would do, but the slickness of this year’s presentation was at a higher level. It took the team a full two years to conceive this year’s […]
Margaret Hema arrives “home” at a new location in Courtenay Place
I’m really impressed with Margaret Hema’s new rooms at Courtenay Place, Wellington, New Zealand, which one visits strictly by appointment. Hema, whom I first interviewed for Lucire in the mid-2000s, is the renowned æstheticienne and facialist, known not only for her unequalled treatment skills but for a small range of premium organic skin care products […]
Grown releases new white tea and phyto anti-ageing moisturizer
Grown’s Anti-Ageing Contour Sculpting White Tea & Phyto Moisturizer is the result of extensive research into the healing constituents within plants. The result is a natural, organic anti-ageing moisturizer, which eliminates the synthetics and petrochemicals found in many of its competitors. Its rich formulation can be used day or night, and is formulated to […]
Amy Winehouse’s death, one year on: Mitch Winehouse on how he plans to commemorate it
It’s hard to believe that one year has passed since Amy Winehouse’s tragic death aged 27 on July 23, 2011. Her father, Mitch Winehouse, says he will spend the first anniversary surrounded by friends and family. ‘It’s going to be very difficult … We’re going in the evening about 7.45 to Amy’s house with […]
Katy Perry has landed in Australia to promote her new documentary film, Part of Me. She donned a gold strapless dress at the Sydney première, as shown below in the ITN video. Meanwhile, Sir Elton John and the surviving members of Queen, as well as American Idol winner Adam Lambert, are in Kyiv, Ukraine […]
