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 […]
Live at Six is a play for our media-obsessed times
Downstage’s brand is one of participation: look back through the theatre’s history and it’s been about innovation and democratization. The clue’s even in the name. Live at Six, the new production currently on at Downstage, embodies its ethos beautifully. Theatregoers are expected to bring their smartphones to film an incident that takes place in […]
Cheryl Cole sues Now over MC Harvey claims; Katy Perry, Russell Brand sign divorce documents
In entertainment news today, Russell Brand and Katy Perry have parted in an amicable fashion, according to reports. Perry signed her divorce documents with her trade-mark smiley face, while Brand is not making any claim on his ex-wife’s fortune. The couple did not have a prenuptial agreement. Forbes had reported that between May […]
British media get excited over Cheryl Cole’s 28th birthday party
Never believe ‘sources close to’ in media, those well meaning folk who use their own constructs to read a situation—or those who simply invent gossip to fuel their importance. We’re not exactly falling for the news that there is an Ashley and Cheryl Cole reconciliation, even if the footballer was seen attending his ex-wife’s 28th […]
Lady Gaga shocks with massive platform heels at CFDA awards
David X. Prutting/Billy Farrell Agency Lady Gaga loves to shock, and she did so again at the CFDA awards at the Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York on Monday night. Donning a turquoise wig and enormous platform heels—which made it so hard to walk she literally needed support—Gaga accepted the Fashion Icon Award […]
Lady Gaga guest-edits Metro newspaper in London
Lady Gaga, 2010’s (and 2011’s) mistress of publicity and fame, has stepped in to the editor-in-chief’s chair at Metro UK, as guest editor for a day. The singer wore a choker, bra top and black pants as she took the editor’s chair. She then led an editorial meeting where she discussed LGBT and equality […]
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 […]
A question to readers: may we change our RSS feeds to summaries?
When we first started offering an RSS feed for Lucire in the late 2000s, we set it up to work as we did on other sites: providing users with full feeds. In the early 2000s, when I began blogging, I understood that full feeds were preferred. This previous month, however, saw a record number […]
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 […]
