Our search box is back in action, and continues to respect your privacy
Switching from Duck Duck Go, which appears to have lost thousands of our pages from its results, to Mojeek, means our search is now with an independent company that has had a longer history of not tracking its users […]
David Yarrow’s Aspen features Alessandra Ambrósio, Brooks Nader, Kate Bock, Aleska Genesis
The Scots photographer’s six images, shot at iconic locations around Aspen, are for sale as archival pigment prints in two sizes from the Gallery […]
GHD launches 2022 limited-edition Pink collection for breast cancer awareness
The Pink collection is back with new orchid pink versions of four favourite GHD tools, all in aid of Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand […]
Jacinda Ardern at Chatham House: providing greater depth on the Christchurch Call
The Q&A following New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s address at Chatham House on Sunday was arguably more insightful, touching on topics ranging from climate change to the geopolitical order, but it is her thoughts on social media that touch our prior concerns here at Lucire […]
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
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, […]
Behind the scenes: Lucire wins award from Luxlife; Komoneed interview on sustainable fashion
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 […]
Dr Martens × Heaven by Marc Jacobs shows spring ’22 collaboration
What were we just saying about the 1990s? It’s very much in vogue right now (as you can read in Lucire issue 45) and it’s something Dr Martens has tapped into with its second collaboration with Heaven by Marc Jacobs, this time for spring–summer 2022. Working with Heaven creative director Ava Nirui, Dr Martens […]
European Human Rights’ Commissioner urges UK Home Secretary not to extradite Julian Assange
Above: Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, has written a letter to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel not to extradite Julian Assange. The Assange case appears to have met with a blackout from many quarters of the mainstream media. In her […]
Sweden’s king of swimwear, Panos Papadopoulos, reveals all in his new autobiography
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 […]
