Bonnie Lautenberg’s new exhibition at the Boca Museum of Modern Art considers the connections between the film and art worlds, with some astonishing pairings […]
Boca Raton exhibition considers connections between film and art
July 14, 2022/12.58
Category: history
June 23, 2022/13.11
In another entry for our 25th anniversary, Jack Yan recalls some of the people who helped get us to this milestone […]
The return of Nicole and Papa: Renault tells real-life stories to promote Mégane E-Tech
June 18, 2022/22.53
We’ve already heard the ‘Johnny and Mary’ song return to Renault commercials, and now it’s the turn of Nicole and Papa, Renault UK’s iconic daughter-and-father duo who helped get the original Clio into the country’s top-ten sellers in the early 1990s. This time, it’s the all-electric Mégane E-Tech that’s the star of the commercials, […]
Revlon files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
June 16, 2022/6.36
With financial difficulties, and competition from more prominent brands, the 90-year-old cosmetics’ group files for bankruptcy protection in New York. […]
Behind the scenes: Lucire wins award from Luxlife; Komoneed interview on sustainable fashion
June 6, 2022/5.52
It’s nice to know that 25 years after Lucire’s founding, we can still win an award for being a pioneer. Luxlife (officially styled LUXlife) recently announced its Health, Beauty and Wellness Awards, and we were named its Most Pioneering Online Fashion Magazine. We did provide some background info to them, including how we started […]
A 25th anniversary retrospective: leading up to Lucire’s launch in 1997
June 2, 2022/3.28
Above: Lucire’s holding page, as archived by the Internet Archive on October 17, 1997. There was no semicolon in JY&A Media; this appears to have been a bug from the Archive’s spider, as explained here. Normally, I wouldn’t be browsing the Internet Archive for old Lucire pages, especially as I have all of them […]
Sweden’s king of swimwear, Panos Papadopoulos, reveals all in his new autobiography
May 16, 2022/5.45
Toward the end of next week, Panos Papadopoulos’s autobiography, Panos: My Life, My Odyssey, comes out in London, with an event in Stockholm following. This is an intimate memoir about Panos’s rise, from childhood poverty in Greece to the ‘king of swimwear’ in Scandinavia. Not only do I have an advance copy, I collaborated […]
New Elsa Schiaparelli retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs from July
May 12, 2022/9.06
Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs will host a new retrospective on Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973), entitled Shocking! Les mondes surréalistes d’Elsa Schiaparelli (Shocking! The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli), and running from July 6, 2022 to January 22, 2023 in the Christine & Stephen A. Schwarzman fashion galleries. Schiaparelli drew much of her inspiration from […]
Laura Ashley, partnering with IMG, could make comeback through licensing
April 13, 2022/22.54
Mabalu/Creative Commons 4·0 Above: Laura Ashley dresses from the 1970s. Laura Ashley could be making a bigger comeback, if its owner’s partnership with IMG bears fruit. Laura Ashley dates from the early 1950s and started in a flat in Pimlico. The brand’s dresses were particularly popular in the 1970s, when the floral, lengthy look […]
Margot Robbie on books, as part of Chanel’s Les Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon
April 12, 2022/9.32
The series Les Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon was previewed in 2020 when Charlotte Casiraghi was made a Chanel ambassador. The project brings together female writers and actresses to share their perspectives on literature, and the latest instalment features Margot Robbie. ‘I was a voracious reader when I was little,’ recounts Robbie, ‘and I think I […]
