Lucire
The global fashion magazine February 12, 2025 
Out now: Lucire issue 50, with free postage for UK

Well-being in the desert

February 24, 2013/11.09

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 […]

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Project Born’s 2012 show slicker and more imaginative than ever

November 1, 2012/18.45

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 […]

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Margaret Hema arrives “home” at a new location in Courtenay Place

October 25, 2012/11.57

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 […]

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Grown releases new white tea and phyto anti-ageing moisturizer

July 30, 2012/1.29

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 […]

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Sound, soul and surprises

/5.50

If you grew up in the ’80s, were female and discovered you liked ’70s progressive rock act Yes, chances are it was because of Trevor Rabin, the virtuoso guitar player who suddenly made it cool for everybody outside the band’s original white male audience to attend the shows and play the songs and their videos […]

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