Horsing around with Sue Wong for New Year in LA
Elyse Glickman Sue Wong not only has it all, but can certainly share her good fortune with great gusto. She usually opens the Cedars, her 1920s-era Hollywood mansion, to serve as a backdrop for informal fashion shows. However, on this auspicious New Year’s Eve, her home (which itself had many lives, from the home of […]
Style this week: the Audrey Hepburn look—wherever you’re going, I’m going your way
The concept for this week’s style profile began while I was shoe shopping at local Wellington-based store, Shoezies. This shop is full of exquisitely made, usually hand-crafted, European brand shoes. I came across these forest green, sling-back, pointy-toe, kitten heels and fell in love. I am celebrating the comeback of kitten heels as they are […]
YSL, first of two bio-pics on Yves Saint Laurent, opens today amid controversy
Thibault Grabherr and Anouchka de Williencourt/SND Top Pierre Niney as Yves Saint Laurent and Guillaume Gallienne as Pierre Bergé in YSL. Above Pierre Niney as Yves Saint Laurent and Charlotte Le Bon as Victoire Doutreleau. The first of two bio-pics on fashion design legend Yves Saint Laurent opens today in France. YSL, directed by […]
Chinese film pioneer, Sir Run Run Shaw, passes away at age 107
Top Sir Run Run Shaw. Centre On the set of one of the films he produced, Meteor, with Natalie Wood, director Ronald Neame, and Sean Connery. Above Harrison Ford in Blade Runner. Sir Run Run Shaw, the Hong Kong movie mogul and founder of television network TVB, passed away today at age 107. He […]
Grand Prix photography exhibition opens at Getty Images Gallery on February 6
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch Top Michael Schumacher comes to the Mercedes-Benz pits at the Shanghai Grand Prix, April 17, 2011. Centre John Surtees and others do the opening sprint at Le Mans, July 21, 1964. Above Nina Rindt waiting for her husband Jochen to pass by. He had a fatal accident at Parabolica just moments after […]
Ready for ’14: a new look for Lucire’s home page
Above Out with the old, in with the new—with J-Law doing the honours as the first cover girl of the new look. (It was Kylie Minogue a year ago.) Our home page has had a nip–tuck today. Well, it’s closer to a full redesign. During 2013, there seems to have been a trend toward […]
Polaroid projection: originality in the digital age
In a modern context, we look to social media to promote us and to expand our visibility in the world. Images are posted and reposted, only to be reposted again. Even this blog is an attempt to promote what I want the world to see of myself, to reach more people than I see in […]
Nelson Mandela: the last portrait photo shoot
Photographer Adrian Steirn’s film, 21 Icons South Africa, was released in the summer, and featured footage with Nelson Mandela, who passed away Thursday night South African time, aged 95. Mandela was a symbol of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, and was incarcerated by the country’s government for his active opposition to the racist, anti-democratic […]
Ford releases official 2015 Mustang photos and details
’Stangers—diehard fans of the Ford Mustang—will have already seen it due to leaks of the official photographs half a day ago. Lucire ran the leaked photos on our Facebook page. But now, we can officially talk about the unveiling, in six cities around the world—New York, Dearborn, Michigan, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Sydney and Barcelona—of the […]
Cartier: le style et l’histoire opens at le Grand Palais after gala event
Rindoff Petroff/Castel Cartier: le style et l’histoire opens on December 4, showcasing the renowned brand in a retrospective organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux–Grand Palais. The Cartier Collection has been shown in 25 exhibitions worldwide since 1983, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the British Museum, Lisboa’s Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Beijing’s […]
