Blogs are good for fashion, as long as we can find them
Above Journalist Simone Werle’s Style Diaries: World Fashion from Berlin to Tokyo uncovers the fashion blogosphere and the personalities behind some of the influential blogs. (Click for Amazon.com, Amazon UK and Amazon Deutschland.) The first time I encountered a fashion blog, I thought it was pretty crap. All its ideals aside, blogging, initially, seemed to […]
Trialling Viviscal as it gets more buzz in Hollywood
When the holidays arrive in Hollywood, you know the award-show season is not far behind. Along with the arrival of up-dos, a new crop of fragrances and glittery eye shadow, as well as red carpet-themed spa packages offered by top hotels, many women’s minds snap into self-improvement mode—and not just in terms of slimming down […]
Deckers launches another lawsuit over Ugg trade mark
On December 7, Deckers Outdoor Corp. filed suit in the US District Court in the Central District of California against Emu Australia, Inc. and Emu (Aus.) Pty. Ltd., claiming infringement over the Ugg Australia trade mark. Emu has this week issued a statement in response to the lawsuit, claiming that in Australia, Ugg has […]
Lucire gets its own search-engine command, and Elyse goes to Taiwan
I am pleased to report that fashion editor Sopheak Seng has been discharged from hospital—those who follow his Tweets know he was laid up there this weekend. Please feel free to send him some good wishes via his Twitter account at @fashiondarlin. Duck Duck Go, our search engine of choice, has very kindly added […]
ONA Spa goes back to (old) school
Above ONA West Hollywood spa’s treatment and waiting rooms. Below left Babor Hy-Ol. Bottom left Babor HSR Lifting Cream Rich. Bottom right Babor HSR Platinum cream. As you’ve seen on Lucire’s pages, classics are back, but with a modern twist. This holds true for the facial. Though a myriad of technical breakthroughs and curiosities have […]
Susan Stafford: a life well spent
From top Kato Kaelin with Pat and James van Patten. Billy Davis, Susan Stafford and Marilyn McCoo. Sean Kanan and Michele Vega. If you are a classic TV enthusiast or a person of a certain age, you will remember ’80s juggernaut game show Wheel of Fortune. Before Vanna White spent the decade turning letters with […]
Jake Gyllenhaal galore: Source Code UK trailer, Love and Other Drugs Australian trailer released
With all the talk going on about Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in Love and Other Drugs, it’s easy to overlook Source Code, another film starring the American actor. What caught our eye is the director—Duncan Jones—who gave us the cult science fiction movie, Moon. Gyllenhaal plays a decorated soldier, Capt Colter Stevens, who […]
Playboy launches Play It scents for women into Australian market
Playboy has successfully managed brand extensions for decades, be they into other editions or into clothing. Two years ago, the company signed a deal with Coty to produce a men’s fragrance. It’s now releasing a women’s fragrance—but how do you link a very masculine brand to a female market? Cleverly, the marketers have seized […]
Range Rover shows five-door Evoque: videos
The Range Rover Evoque, whose launch we covered earlier this year when Victoria Beckham was announced as a design executive for Land Rover, will spawn a five-door model, to be shown at the Los Angeles Auto Show on November 17. The sleek lines of the original are interrupted slightly with the extra door, and […]
The Alexander McQueen–Hells Angels fashion fiasco explained
On October 25, the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corp. took a different route when confronting someone with a ‘problem’ instead of the usual threaten-and-get-’em routine—going so far as to hiring intellectual property attorney Fritz Clapp from the central district of California. ‘There’s no doubt in my mind the designer had seen the death head mark,’ he […]
