Happy 2021 to our readers and supporters! Twenty twenty was tough, and along with the rest of you, we felt it. But believe it or not, commercially it wasn’t our toughest year—you can look back at 2005–6 for that, and long-time readers will recall that by January 2006 there were preciously few articles being […]
Pierre Cardin, visionary designer, dies aged 98
Claude Iverné/Creative Commons 3·0 Top: Pierre Cardin’s official portrait in 1992. Above: The cover of the book accompanying Pierre Cardin’s 60th anniversary retrospectives in 2010. Legendary fashion designer Pierre Cardin died December 29 aged 98, according to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, of which he had been a member since 1992. Born Pietro Costante Cardin […]
Adi Constantin/Unsplash Above, from top: The real 2015 and one photo that summarizes the decade: Kendall and Kylie Jenner go shopping for Ugg shoes in New York, and take a selfie. The 2015 of fiction: Michael J. Fox outside a cinema in Back to the Future Part II (1989). Still from Ridley Scott’s 1982 film […]
Personal thoughts on the passing of Sir Sean Connery, 1930–2020
Danjaq SA/United Artists The iconic image of Sean Connery and the Aston Martin DB5 in a publicity still from Goldfinger. Many movie fans were greeted with sad news with the passing of Sir Sean Connery at 90 in the Bahamas. Sir Sean had been unwell for some time, according to his son Jason, and […]
Cover design notes on our 23rd birthday
We’ve happily been able to add a few more covers to the montage we published last year on the occasion of our 22nd anniversary. Now 23, we thought an update was in order, and we’ve included our latest issue, which you can order now. The story of Lucire’s founding has been covered elsewhere, during […]
Chanel celebrated the opening of the retrospective exhibition Gabrielle Chanel: Manifeste de Mode (Fashion Manifesto), held at the newly renovated Palais Galliera, the City of Paris Fashion Museum, with its ambassadors Vanessa Paradis, Anna Mouglalis, Angèle, Caroline de Maigret, Charlotte Cardin, Gaspard Ulliel and Sébastien Tellier. Other celebrities included Irène Jacob, Camille Razat, Karidja Touré, […]
Bollinger releases No Time to Die limited-edition gift box, featuring James Bond and DB5
After coming to a stop earlier this year because of COVID-19, the publicity machine for the 25th Eon Productions James Bond picture, No Time to Die, is cranking up again as the movie nears its postponed November 2020 release date. Following Land Rover, which ran promotions earlier this year for its Defender model featuring […]
At Venezia: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romola Garai and Miss Marx, Mare fuori, and Mandibules premières
Iosip Mihail Day four at the 77ª Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica di Venezia, the Venice Film Festival, saw the Corradi Cinema Lounge at the Ausonia Hungaria host director Susanna Nicchiarelli and actress Romola Garai, there for the première of their film, Miss Marx, a biopic about Eleanor, Karl Marx’s daughter, who addressed issues of feminism […]
Putting the brakes on fast fashion
Lucire is UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner. Abigail Beall’s statistics in a recent BBC report about clothing recycling make sobering reading. She writes, ‘Around 85% of all textiles thrown away in the US—roughly 13 million tonnes in 2017—are either dumped into landfill or burned. The average American has been estimated to throw away around […]
Karlie Kloss, Kaia Gerber, Lewis Hamilton invest in W magazine
Tim Walker Dua Lipa, photographed in March 2020 for W. W magazine, formerly at Condé Nast, is now under the ownership of a group of investors led by Karlie Kloss. Variety reported that editor-in-chief Sara Moonves said she had assembled a group of investors under a joint venture called W Media. Other investors […]
