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Jessica Alba’s in the red spirit

December 3, 2008/11.17

Campari launched its 2009 calendar, starring Jessica Alba, at a celebrity event in Milano yesterday. We’ve featured a few of Mario Testino’s stunning images from the calendar, with Alba promoting the red spirit in each one, some subtly, some less so (with the Campari bottle being quite noticeable). Also noticeable: make-up has been getting a […]

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More of Anne Hathaway on Lancôme Magnifique

November 23, 2008/2.24

We’ve put up some extra images from behind the scenes of the Lancôme Magni?que TV commercial, starring Anne Hathaway and directed by Peter Lindbergh, this week. A video showing the making of the commercial was shown on the Lucire TV site last month. You may also like Anne Hathaway, behind the scenes on Lancôme Magnifique […]

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Charlize Theron, UN Messenger of Peace

November 18, 2008/6.09

In the main part of our site today, photographs of and quotations from Charlize Theron as she is inducted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a Messenger of Peace, focusing on violence against women. As we reveal, this matter is very near and dear to Theron’s heart, and she has spent a great deal […]

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Ryanair criticized again for calendar

November 15, 2008/0.45

Is Ryanair’s 2009 calendar, featuring 13 of its flight attendants in swimwear photographed by Mike Rosenthal in Spain, appropriate?    The airline has come under fire for its 2009 calendar, as it did for its 2008 one last year, with its critics accusing it of sexism.    Criticisms centre around Ryanair’s objectification of the flight […]

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South Island by Clio, sans Nicole et Papa

November 9, 2008/4.46

I was interested to find that there were still photographs from my 2007 South Island drive that hadn’t seen the public light of day. These were good shots of the Renault Clio 3 that the company had loaned to me. Outside Carey’s Bay Hotel, the Clio looked more 21st century than the 1990s cars parked […]

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Claudia Schiffer to front YSL’s spring ’09 campaign

November 6, 2008/11.15

We’re hearing that Claudia Schiffer will replace Naomi Campbell for Yves Saint Laurent’s spring–summer 2009 campaign. Schiffer has also shot for Dolce & Gabbana and Salvatore Ferragamo for that season.    Women’s Wear Daily reports that the YSL campaign was photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadib. Other media will no doubt seize upon […]

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Desert island match kicks off Sony Ericsson Championships

November 4, 2008/1.42

CLIVE BRUNSKILL/GETTY IMAGES Sony Ericsson staged a unique tennis game on Nov. 3 to commemorate the start of the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar. Ana Ivanovic of Serbia (above) and Elena Dementieva of Russia played a historic match on Palm Island in the middle of Doha Bay in the Arabian Gulf, with the Doha […]

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A look back at Kari’s Golden Globes suite ’08

November 3, 2008/5.47

For one reason or another, we didn’t get a chance to run the images from January’s Golden Globes Suite that Kari Feinstein organized. But these are too good to pass up, so before they get archived, they get shared. It’s been a while since we’ve seen Scott Baio.   Clockwise from top: Jodi Lyn O’Keefe […]

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Photographer Doug Rimington interviewed in Frame Lines

October 27, 2008/3.54

One of our favourite photographers, Doug Rimington, is featured in the latest Frame Lines magazine out of Australia. You can read a full interview with Doug, who got his first fashion gig at Lucire, in Frame Lines’ PDFs (either low-res, at 2·7 Mbyte, or high-res, at 5 Mbyte). You may also like The people of […]

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Indashio’s Brad Batory wins Glam God

October 24, 2008/1.20

Above: Vivica A. Fox with Brad Batory, winner of VH1’s Glam God. I love hearing about what some of our alums are doing. First up, Brad Batory of Indashio, who styled numerous shoots for us over the years and whom we met in 2003, has won VH1’s Glam God TV show.    I’m glad we […]

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