New Zealand Fashion Week autumn–winter 2013, day three: from clean-cut to sublime prints

September 6, 2012/14.37

Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography Above Stolen Girlfriends’ Club’s apocalyptic-themed show took place in an underground car park, with fashion editor Sopheak Seng calling the label’s Dead End collection ‘to date, one of the label’s best’. Day three of New Zealand Fashion Week brought clean, Quaker-style clothing, a boar’s head reappearance and sublime prints. Salasai Opening […]

Queensland plays host to Prado masterpieces, and Hamburg Ballet, Philharmonic and State Opera

August 24, 2012/23.59

© Holger Badekow Dirk Messner Top The Hamburg Ballet performs A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Above The Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Brisbane has grown from strength to strength, ever since one of its mayors gave the city a fresh energy, involving the arts and youth in its progress. That energy has continued to fuel the city, and […]

Christian Louboutin in an in-depth interview with CNN: a preview

August 17, 2012/0.58

Our colleagues at CNN have provided us with two videos featuring the legendary Christian Louboutin, who recently spoke with Sara Sidner for Talk Asia. Louboutin discusses how he had no formal training, his trade-mark battle with Yves Saint Laurent, and the most ‘outrageous’ shoe he has ever made, a ruby-encrusted sandal. On his […]

Jaguar releases new video showing F-type prototypes as Paris launch nears

August 10, 2012/14.18

Jaguar’s new F-type sports car will make its global début at the Salon de Paris on September 27. The company’s latest video gives further glimpses into the historical new model, with Jaguar showing F-type bodyshells as well as a camouflaged verification prototype. The video has been narrated by Ian Hoban, Vehicle Line Director at […]

Fashion legend Anna Piaggi passes away, aged 81

August 7, 2012/13.41

Captain Catan, under Creative Commons Attribution 3·0 Anna Piaggi, the famed Italian fashion writer and editor, has passed away, aged 81. Piaggi had written for Vogue Italia and created the Italian magazine Vanity, with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, Karl Lagerfeld and Manolo Blahnik among her many fans. Piaggi was born in Milano […]

Cheryl Cole steps out in 1950s style for ‘Under the Sun’ video

July 27, 2012/11.44

Cheryl Cole’s video for her new song, ‘Under the Sun’, has been released, with a sexy time-warp theme. The Geordie songstress attracts the attention of every man in the video, which has props and fashions from almost every era from the 1940s to the present day. While Cole’s 1950s’ costume—a yellow brassière, cream […]

Video: Angelina Jolie at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where her engagement ring gets its first public airing

July 9, 2012/11.19

Angelina Jolie has débuted her engagement ring from Brad Pitt at the Sarajevo Film Festival on Saturday. While she didn’t make any comments about it, Jolie spoke of the Bosnian capital and the festival itself. Jolie was made an honorary citizen of Sarajevo in recognition of her film, In the Land of Blood and […]

BMW Art Cars on show in London for the first time

July 6, 2012/7.47

The BMW Art Cars will be on show in the UK for the first time from July 21 to August 4 at the NCP Car Park on Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch. The exhibition, Art Drive! The BMW Art Car Collection, has been brought to the UK by the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), BMW, […]

Video: a preview of Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style, opening on Friday

/0.20

As previewed in Lucire in April, Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style is about to open at the Barbican Centre in London, focusing on the Bond look. Media were given a preview this week. Among the exhibits were one of the Aston Martin DB5s from Goldfinger, Scaramanga’s golden gun from The Man with […]

Kim Kardashian, Kanye West at Paris couture week; Naomi Watts on set as Princess Diana

July 5, 2012/1.07

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West—or Kimye, as the media are beginning to refer to them—hit Paris’s couture week, attending the Stéphane Rolland show—or the remaining part of it, since the couple was an hour late. Rolland had waited nearly an hour for the pair to arrive, and decided to commence the show without them. […]