Bentley to launch £1,000 limited edition of new James Bond book, Carte Blanche
Bentley has created a limited edition of the forthcoming James Bond book, Carte Blanche (for the regular hardback edition, US$15·49 at Amazon; £9·99 at Amazon UK), by Jeffery Deaver, to be released on May 26. It continues a long tie-up between Ian Fleming’s literary super-spy and the Bentley car brand. Bond owned three Bentleys […]
The fascination with Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding
Mario Testino Above Prince William and Kate Middleton’s choice of Mario Testino for the official engagement portraits led to the media dissecting everything from tradition to fashion. There have been many stories this month not just on the Royal Wedding, but on how unimportant the Royal Wedding is. It’s almost a backlash, as surveys go […]
Lucire update: Alber Elbaz interviewed, South Africa, and top 10 menswear
Above Lucire Paris editor Lola Saab with Lanvin creative director Alber Elbaz. If you’ve surfed through to our home page, you’ll have noticed that Lola Saab has interviewed Alber Elbaz, getting him to reveal his thinking behind Lanvin’s menswear collection for autumn–winter 2011–12. It’s not the only new article that we want to alert […]
Will Gisèle Bündchen keep her crown as the top-earning model in 2011?
Above Natalia Vodianova, appearing here for Etam lingerie, is expected to remain in the top 10 for annual earnings, based on Vicki Matias’s calculations. Every year, Forbes announces its table of the world’s top-earning models for the year. This year, we thought we’d try to make an educated guess on who might be in first […]
Why aren’t we happy that Jennifer Garner is the new Miss Marple?
Annie Leibovitz Above Jennifer Garner models the Gap’s Product Red parka—not really whom you’d expect to see as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. There were two interesting casting decisions made this week in showbusiness. One was generally favoured and both we and British Vogue reported it: the casting Karen Gillan, Doctor Who’s Amy Pond, as […]
Karen Gillan to play 1960s’ supermodel Jean Shrimpton in BBC bio-pic
BBC Karen Gillan, who came to fame with her Amy Pond role in Doctor Who, will play Jean Shrimpton—‘the Shrimp’, one of Britain’s most iconic models of the ’60s—in a BBC film to be shown on BBC Four. We’ll Take Manhattan focuses on the four-year love affair between Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. […]
Gucci helps with Grammy musical archives’ preservation efforts
The Image Gate/Getty Images for Gucci Gucci celebrated its partnership with the Recording Academy at Baselworld by showing off its Grammy timepiece and jewellery collection, and announcing a preservation project being handled by the Grammy Museum. Announced last October, the partnership sees Gucci supporting the Academy and, notably, this latest venture. Recently unearthed […]
Dame Elizabeth Taylor: a style icon remembered
We’ve thought about it and other than praising her charity work raising money for Aids, there isn’t a better tribute we can make to the late, great Dame Elizabeth Taylor, DBE, than showing her at her peak. Below is a video of her in Las Vegas with then-husband Eddie Fisher, in 1959. This video […]
A public thank-you to the Lucire team
To my loyal and hard-working team: thank you. This is a very public thanks to you all for getting us to a landmark: 101 articles picked up by Google News in the course of a month. While these numbers are tiny alongside the big sites, it’s not bad for an independent, niche publication […]
McLaren releases further videos of MP4-12C sports car, and hosts a visit from John Watson
Mike Dodd McLaren has released images showing more of its remarkable MP4-12C sports car, this time with former Formula 1 driver John Watson. Watson raced for McLaren and was the 1981 British Grand Prix winner, driving the MP4/1. He was invited to Silverstone to drive the new MP4-12C, a sports car that takes […]
