If you look at the shoot ‘Wednesday’s Child’ in issue 26 of Lucire in New Zealand (photographed by Doug Rimington, styled by Sara Smeath, make-up and hair by Kaori Harigae, and modelled by Clemency of Chadwick Models), you might think these are familiar. These unpublished black-and-white shots are off Doug’s ?lm camera, and we’re thinking […]
New TKstore on Auckland’s High Street
Turet Knüfermann has opened a new store on Auckland’s fashionable High Street. TKstore sells Turet’s own IPG label as well as other fashionable brands. We’re really proud of seeing Turet’s expansion since ?rst seeing her collection at L’Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week, and it’s all down to hard work. More at our Fashion Features’ index […]
One more from our Miss Universe New Zealand ’08 shoot
Doug Rimington has a few behind-the-scenes shots from Tuesday’s shoot with Miss New Zealand Samantha Powell. I snapped one to ?nish off a roll of ?lm myself, which is below. This was shot in pretty dark conditions, f5·6, 1/30 sec, on my Voigtländer Bessamatic. Rebecca Connor, the reigning Miss Wellington and a top-?ve ?nisher herself […]
New Zealand’s new beauty portal
BeautyandSkin.co.nz is the new portal dealing with beauty products in New Zealand. Lucire has chatted to Matt G. Clark, one of the driving forces behind the site, and he has talked about how he envisages the site to be an objective source about beauty products. While there’s backing from Æsthetic Solutions, readers can look forward […]
Behind the scenes on Samantha Powell’s shoot
The weather is delightful today, but we had to wait till the late afternoon (i.e. after working hours) to see any sun yesterday during Miss Universe New Zealand Samantha Powell’s shoot. She was already suffering from food poisoning so she wasn’t in the best health, but was an absolutely wonderful sport despite our dragging her […]
We’re photographing Sam, so pray for good weather
Left: It’s not even that good a quality (the technical aspects, not the subject) but this is one of the more regularly pirated shots of Samantha Powell online. Some blogging services have been kindly getting it removed from around the web on our behalf—one had this shot and another one of Jennifer Hawkins from this […]
Ford Focus: 100 years since the Model T
What better way to commemorate the centenary of the Ford Model T than with a test drive of the modern-day equivalent, the basic Ford Focus hatchback? This appears on Lucire today, and the text link to the free supplement on the home page has now been ?xed—so you can download pages from the print edition […]
We’re preparing to shoot Samantha Powell, Miss Universe New Zealand 2008, on Tuesday. Photographer Doug Rimington is ?ying in from Sydney tonight and I collect him at the airport in a BMW 120i Cabriolet that the company has lent to me; and the Tissot Fabulous Garden watch has arrived, delivered personally by Grif?ths McKay & […]
WOW: a big toast in Civic Square
We had an unusual call from Hayley Dryland earlier today about New Zealand’s biggest toast on record to launch this year’s 20th anniversary Montana World of Wearable Art (WOW) show. Katherine Thomson, currently interning with us, and I drove down to Civic Square to see a targeted 500 people raise their glasses of Montana Reserve […]
Lucire issue 26: download your free supplement here
Left: On your newsstands, Lucire no. 26, with cover by Kelly Thompson. Below left: The cover to the downloadable free supplement, with cover by Morand/Zwirner Photography (the full shoot appears in the newsstand edition). Issue 26 of Lucire is on the newsstands, but we realize some readers overseas mightn’t want to order it online if […]
