Pass Port and Arcade commemorate Anzacs with limited-edition collection
Australian skateboard brand Pass Port and New Zealand retailer Arcade have teamed up to commemorate Anzac Day—showing that the spirit of brotherhood between the two nations continues. Arcade, in the Ironbank building on Karangahape Road and Cross Street in Auckland, has managed to cross many boundaries with its customers—and fashion is just one of […]
American TV legend, Dick Clark, dies at 82
Sara Lee TV producer and host Dick Clark has died of a heart attack, aged 82, at St John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., says his spokesman Paul Shefrin. Clark was best known for presenting the TV show American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989, which broke a number of new acts, and Dick Clark’s […]
Designing 007 opens at the Barbican in July, covering 50 years of James Bond design
Copyright ©1964 by Danjaq LLC and United Artists Corp. Above Sean Connery as James Bond at the Furka Pass, Switzerland, and the iconic Aston Martin DB5, during the making of Goldfinger (1964). With the 50th anniversary of the cinematic James Bond, exhibitions are being shown around the world to mark the occasion, but the Barbican […]
The enfant terrible comes of age: The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier shows in San Francisco
Elyse Glickman It may seem at first blush like somewhat of a surprise that an ambitious fashion-as-art exhibition starring Jean-Paul Gaultier, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: from the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, is creating a major buzz in San Francisco instead of New York or even Los Angeles. However, given San Francisco is […]
Ferdinand Alexander ‘Butzi’ Porsche, designer of the 911 and founder of Porsche Design, passes away
Above Butzi Porsche and the Porsche 901, later 911. Below Official photograph of Prof F. A. Porsche. One of the great names in design, Prof Ferdinand Alexander ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the designer of the original Porsche 911 and the founder of Porsche Design, passed away yesterday. The honorary president of Porsche AG was 76, and […]
Sponsored video: new Renault Twingo given away to couple in leap-year proposal
A Lucire special promotion In the 1980s, there was a concern that cars were beginning to look all the same: the same rectangular headlights, the grille-less look, slightly rounded corners, and pretty much the same proportions. Enter Patrick le Quément, the man heading design at Renault, who said: ‘The biggest risk of all is […]
Lucire update: from smoky eyes to exclusive shoes to kabuki theatre
For those following Lucire via their RSS readers, there are a few articles on the main part of the site that may be of interest. New York beauty editor Reiva Cruze gives her low-down on three of the collections at New York Fashion Week, with her special insight working behind the scenes. Additionally, […]
London markets itself for the Olympics, using Fashion Week as its hook
London has prepared to market itself in advance of the Olympics, and what better way to show off its up-to-the-minute nature than using the recently concluded Fashion Week? The videos shown here are from the London Media Centre, which states in summary: ‘As the countdown to the 2012 Olympics continues, the UK fashion industry […]
Montblanc’s pre-Oscar functions: Princess Charlene, Amber Heard, Teri Hatcher, Olga Kurylenko attend
John Shearer/Getty Images Donato Sardella/Getty Images Our west coast editor Elyse Glickman was at the Oscar functions last night and will file her story shortly, but we do have some images from the Oscar parties that had taken place the week before. Montblanc has really pushed its Collection Princesse Grace de Monaco this year, […]
Monica Bellucci is Dolce & Gabbana’s latest spokesmodel; Samsung goes behind the scenes at NYFW
Actress Monica Bellucci is the latest face for Dolce & Gabbana, joining Scarlett Johansson and Felicity Jones. Bellucci, 47, is a friend of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, and the limited-edition lipstick line named for her—the Monica Lipstick Collection—will hit stores on May 12. With six shades, the lipstick will retail at US$32 […]
