Joseph Altuzarra, Rihanna, Lupita Nyong’o, Raf Simons, Tom Ford on stage at the CFDA awards
Joe Schildhorn/BFAnyc.com Matteo Prandoni/BFAnyc.com Joseph Altuzarra has been named the womenswear designer of the year, and Rihanna the fashion icon of the year, at the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s (CFDA) Fashion Awards, in association with Swarovski, at Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center. Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who presented Rihanna’s award, […]
Miss France 2014 your top story, and Princess Madeleine your favourite newsmaker
Bruno Ehrs/Kungahuset Above HRH Princess Madeleine of Sweden was the person you searched for the most this year. We’ve told you who we thought 2013’s newsmakers were. But who did you want to read about this year? In first place: HRH Princess Madeleine of Sweden. The younger of HM King Carl XVI Gustaf’s daughters […]
Mike Marsland Top Harry Styles, winner of the British Style Award this year. Above The two Christophers who took the top awards: Christopher Bailey (left) and Christopher Kane (right). Christopher Kane won the coveted prize of womenswear designer of the year, and Christopher Bailey, MBE, for menswear (for Burberry) at this year’s British Fashion Awards […]
Suzy Menkes to be honoured at 2013 British Fashion Awards
Julien Hekimian Suzy Menkes, OBE will receive the British Fashion Council’s (BFC) Special Recognition Award this year, for her 25-year-long career at the International Herald–Tribune. Menkes has been style editor for the newspaper, now rebranded as the International New York Times, since 1988, and is hugely respected by her peers and the fashion industry. […]
Don’t forget: Lucire 31 is out, available for tablets and in print
Above As shown on Facebook yesterday, a banner ad campaign has launched promoting the print and tablet editions of Lucire, even though issue 31 has been published for some weeks. If you haven’t checked it out already, you should do so: Lucire issue 31 is out. Since the print editions are collectible, limited editions, they […]
Princess Madeleine responds to tabloid tracking down her and Chris O’Neill on honeymoon
Via Facebook The Swedish tabloid press has tracked down HRH Princess Madeleine and her new husband, Chris O’Neill, who are honeymooning after a grand Royal Wedding in Stockholm on Saturday. The Royal Court, wishing to guard the newlyweds’ privacy, had remained silent on their travel plans, but Expressen has published photos taken via a […]
Wordpress has summarized the year of this news section, and told us something we know already: that our story on Marine Lorphelin being crowned Miss France 2013 was the biggest of the year. This also correlates with our Facebook fan page numbers. It also put France as one of the top countries accessing Lucire […]
Lucire issue 29 is out, starring Laura Vandervoort
It was uncharacteristically quiet in the news pages in Lucire on Monday, for a very good reason: the release of issue 29 in print and PDF. The latest issue features Laura Vandervoort (Smallville, V, Ted) on the cover, photographed by Courtney Dailey, styled by Lei Phillips, with make-up by Jamie Dorman and hair by […]
Lucire turns 15: bring on the future
I’ve written so many editorials about Lucire’s history for our various anniversaries that now we’ve turned 15, I feel like I’d just be going over old ground. Again. I’d do it maybe for the 20th or 21st, but the story has been told online and in print many times. But 15 is a bit […]
Fashion legend Anna Piaggi passes away, aged 81
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 […]
