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Victoria & Albert Museum to host Grace Kelly exhibition

December 30, 2009/4.33

Above Grace Kelly in a publicity shot for Rear Window. The Victoria & Albert Museum will showcase Grace Kelly’s wardrobe with over 50 of her outfits on show, including hats and the original Hermès Kelly bag. Grace Kelly: Style Icon runs from April 17 to September 26 in room 40 of the Museum.    Her […]

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Tyra Banks to end talk show in the spring

December 29, 2009/22.24

Tyra Banks has announced that her daytime talk show will end, with the last episodes to be made in the spring.    Even after the end of production, the show will continue to air for 2010–11, though with best-of episodes, says Variety.    The Tyra Show began in 2005, and has won Daytime Emmys in […]

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Volvo gives more info on electric C30 hatchback

December 19, 2009/2.14

Volvo showed an electric C30 some time ago. Still a concept, the company is showing more details, with a test fleet promised for 2010. The cars can run on electricity on a single charge for 150 km—which means it suits 90 per cent of European drivers.    Our video below has comments from Volvo, as […]

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Bentley lends its name to skis

December 18, 2009/10.32

Bentley has extended its brand again, this time to hand-made skis from Switzerland.    The skis, poles and ski bag have been created by Zai with input from Bentley’s Styling Studio.    The Zai skis are made in a limited edition of 250 numbered pairs, and début a new type of carbonfibre dubbed Zaiìra. The […]

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First official pic of the next Project Runway cast

December 16, 2009/12.44

Barbara Nitke One of the fashionistas’ favourite TV shows, Project Runway, returns on January 14, 2010, 10 p.m. EST/PST on Lifetime Television. The show returns to New York with Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and 16 new designers as they vie for a place at New York Fashion Week. You may also […]

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The Aston Martin V8 Vantage is my car of the decade

/12.31

Chelfyn Baxter Above The author with the Aston Martin V8 Vantage in 2006. [Cross-posted] Autocar is currently talking about what was the car of the decade. I remember in 1989, the magazine ran a series on the most beautiful cars of each decade, and named the most significant. That decade, the Ford Sierra was the […]

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Saab shouldn’t object to a Beijing courtship

December 14, 2009/10.25

Photographed by Meredyth Lewis/JY&A Media [Cross-posted] I know I blogged enthusiastically about the potential of Koenigsegg buying Saab to put its solar-powered car into production but, as we know, that deal has since fallen through. Saab’s future is uncertain again, even if Dutch company Spyker—which, like Koenigsegg, also makes specialty sports cars—has expressed an interest […]

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BMW ups the ante with even faster Z4

/5.34

We’ve already tested the BMW Z4 SDrive35i (how’s that for a mouthful?) and will publish a review in the near future, but the Bavarians have already upped the ante with the BMW Z4 SDrive35is. Débuting at the Detroit Motor Show, the NAIAS (North American International Auto Show), early in the New Year, the SDrive35is still […]

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Thinking environmentally: Abi Ferrin interview, COP 15 highlights

December 13, 2009/10.56

On the main part of the Lucire site today: our Paris and New York correspondent, Rola Saab, interviews Abi Ferrin. Rola purposely sought out Abi because of her environmental concerns, and her latest collection was inspired by the Osa rainforest in Costa Rica. Continue reading here.    As the UNEP’s first fashion industry partner, we […]

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A great finalé for the Palin book tour

December 12, 2009/6.07

[Cross-posted] Looks like the Palinomenon has continued, this time on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, where the former governor got her own back against William Shatner, who had lampooned two of her speeches and excerpts from her autobiography.    Judging by the audience applause, the response to Sarah Palin—you know, the Sarah Palin with […]

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