Gucci helps with Grammy musical archives’ preservation efforts
The Image Gate/Getty Images for Gucci Gucci celebrated its partnership with the Recording Academy at Baselworld by showing off its Grammy timepiece and jewellery collection, and announcing a preservation project being handled by the Grammy Museum. Announced last October, the partnership sees Gucci supporting the Academy and, notably, this latest venture. Recently unearthed […]
A Lucire update: from Vivienne Westwood to our favourite coats
For our RSS readers, there are a few features on the main part of our site that you will want to pop by and see. Jobs.co.nz’s winner, Kate Goodbehere, who won a prize to be Lucire’s fashion editor for a day, has penned her article—a top 10 on coats, supervised by fashion editor Sopheak […]
Dame Elizabeth Taylor is late for her own funeral
Dame Elizabeth Taylor was late for her own funeral—at her own request. In accordance with her wishes, the 79-year-old actress’s service began 15 minutes after the publicized time. Dame Elizabeth has been laid to rest at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, after a private service held outside Los Angeles. […]
Elizabeth Arden, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Vanessa Hudgens pay tribute to Dame Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Arden, which licensed Dame Elizabeth Taylor’s name and likeness for its fragrances, has issued a statement on the actress’s passing. ‘It is with deep sadness that we learned of the passing of Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress, activist and businesswoman. As her business partner in the fragrance industry, we have held her in […]
Dame Elizabeth Taylor: a style icon remembered
We’ve thought about it and other than praising her charity work raising money for Aids, there isn’t a better tribute we can make to the late, great Dame Elizabeth Taylor, DBE, than showing her at her peak. Below is a video of her in Las Vegas with then-husband Eddie Fisher, in 1959. This video […]
The 2011 BNP Paribas Open: having themselves a ball
Joe Scarnici While film buffs look to Hollywood as the physical embodiment of America’s “good life”, Indian Wells (two hours from LA without traffic, and just east of Palm Springs) takes on a similar glow when the BNP Paribas Open comes to town in March. Instead of rolling out the red carpet, of course, the […]
Getting Uma Thurman’s Ceremony hair
It’s nice to see Uma Thurman continue to make the news—this time through celebrity hairstylist David Babaii, who gave the actress her look at the Los Angeles première of Ceremony. To achieve the look, according to his PR: ‘Babaii prepared Uma’s freshly washed and conditioned hair by massaging a dime-size amount of Couture Colour […]
Celebrities donate to Japan to varying degrees
This is all well and good: ITN’s report about celebrities donating to organizations working with the Japan earthquake and tsunami. The Sandra Bullock report, we can understand, deserves applause, and Demi Lovato has done a good thing so early in her career: both are donating amounts from their own pockets. But is this the same […]
Prince William and Kate Middleton tour Northern Ireland; third Bridget Jones movie rumoured
The pre-wedding Wills and Kate publicity machine is in overdrive. With news of HRH Prince William visiting Australia and New Zealand shortly to pay tribute to the victims of the Queensland floods, the Pike River mining disaster and the devastating Christchurch earthquake, there is also a video from ITN featuring him and fiancée Kate […]
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 […]
