The fashion world is still talking about virtual phenomena but traditional methods are going to last the distance, writes Jack Yan […]
November 14, 2022/10.08
Category: media
November 8, 2022/3.45
Founder and publisher Jack Yan on why Lucire will use its Mastodon account more for social media going forward […]
Publisher’s diary: Feedspot’s top 50, computers in cars, and a new mayor
October 12, 2022/0.59
Founder and publisher Jack Yan with a summary of recent events, beginning with Lucire’s surprise appearance on a top-50 fashion magazines’ list […]
Jacinda Ardern at Chatham House: providing greater depth on the Christchurch Call
July 5, 2022/4.28
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 […]
A 25th anniversary retrospective: leading up to Lucire’s launch in 1997
June 2, 2022/3.28
Above: Lucire’s holding page, as archived by the Internet Archive on October 17, 1997. There was no semicolon in JY&A Media; this appears to have been a bug from the Archive’s spider, as explained here. Normally, I wouldn’t be browsing the Internet Archive for old Lucire pages, especially as I have all of them […]
European Human Rights’ Commissioner urges UK Home Secretary not to extradite Julian Assange
May 18, 2022/10.52
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 […]
Brands need special spaces in the metaverse, rather than mixing it with everyone
March 30, 2022/12.05
There were three stories in Lucire during March on virtual worlds. First, Riveka Thevendran took us into gaming fashion with a brief journey into its history, for a feature originally published in print. Secondly, DeepBrain announced that Chinese state TV channel CCTV will have an AI anchor. And thirdly, Kate Moss now has an avatar […]
A tribute to the uniquely creative and brilliant David MacGregor
November 28, 2021/9.45
Wayback Machine at Archive.org Above: A 2000 screenshot of Emale, created by David MacGregor. I was very saddened to learn of the passing of my friend David MacGregor, with whom this magazine collaborated in the early 2000s. But David was much more than the creator of Emale (eMALE in its official form), New Zealand’s […]
Larisa Love works her magic on Jamie Chung with Joico’s Lumi10 professional hair colour solution
October 11, 2021/4.39
Will Tee Yang/Sans 35 Studios Every so often, the right beauty remedy not only comes around at the right time, but also takes very little time to do its job. This is the premise of Joico’s latest salon innovation, Lumi10, a quick professional permanent hair colour solution that delivers 100 per cent grey coverage in […]
Revamping Lucire to look sharper on mobile devices
October 10, 2021/9.48
The astute among you will have seen some changes taking place on a few pages in Lucire’s online edition. First one article was switched to a new template, then it was the home page (where there’s a slider with three stories), and now all the news pages (which are run on the Wordpress content management […]
