Carolyn Enting pays tribute to New Zealand-born journalist and former Daily Telegraph fashion director Hilary Alexander, OBE, who passed away on her 77th birthday on February 5 […]
A tribute to Hilary Alexander, 1946–2023
February 10, 2023/4.19
Category: media
January 9, 2023/9.17
The UK tabloid media are in Prince Harry’s crosshairs in ITV’s Harry: the Interview. Jack Yan gives his reaction to the Prince’s frank interview with Tom Bradby […]
Our year in tech: how different 2023 looks from 2022
January 7, 2023/21.34
Technology has always impacted on what we do at Lucire, and 2022 saw some big changes. Jack Yan looks at the last 12 months […]
November 14, 2022/10.08
The fashion world is still talking about virtual phenomena but traditional methods are going to last the distance, writes Jack Yan […]
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 […]
