Jenny Craig announces latest international celebs
Jenny Craig, Dr Billy Ingram Jenny Craig continues to use star power to promote its programmes. In the US, it has announced that Nicole Sullivan (Rita Rocks) is its latest celebrity client; in Australasia, Australian Idol judge Ian Dickson (‘Dicko’) launches its Jen4Men programme. Sullivan is targeting a loss of 16 kg (35 lb) […]
I finally saw The September Issue last Monday, a bit after our Christchurch writer, Jolene Williams, who filed the official Lucire review. I agree with her words but need to add one thing: for 90 minutes, I was constantly reminded of work and probably was the only person walking out of the cinema more wound […]
Lucire’s view: The September Issue
Above Stills from The September Issue. Vogue editor Anna Wintour is likened to the Pope in R. J. Cutler’s documentary The September Issue. With a divine omnipotence, a single-arched eyebrow reduces flamboyant designers to stuttering school boys. A flick of her bony, bangled wrist condemns a $50,000 photo shoot to the scrap heap. Her […]
Gisèle Bündchen is UNEP’s new ambassador
Today on the Lucire site: we have news that supermodel Gisèle Bündchen has followed in our footsteps by partnering with the UNEP. As Lucire pioneered the idea of partnering the UNEP with the fashion industry, we’re delighted to see the environmental organization find someone as high-profile as Gisèle. Meanwhile, we have a road test […]
I don’t think we could let September 11, 2009 pass without marking what had happened in the United States eight years ago. As with this year, the day fell during New York Fashion Week, and as the publisher I had a few things to contend with. I had returned to Wellington from Manhattan only […]
Sweden inaugurates its first national marine park
Sweden has inaugurated its first marine national park on its west coast, near the Norwegian border. Both Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, and Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, inaugurated the park at Kosterhavet, 150 km north of Göteborg. Marine life at Kosterhavet includes species found nowhere else in Swedish waters, and is a […]
CocoonU might have the finest cashmere scarves this winter
Don’t they look sumptuous? Better yet, these 100 per cent cashmere scarves from CocoonU are organically and ethically sourced, with yarn from outer Mongolia. There, because of the colder climates, a higher-quality, lighter yarn is sourced, and the company claims it helps supports the lifestyles of the nomadic herders in outer Mongolia. It also points […]
Our good friend Thomaz has been in Ecuador to photograph fashion week there, and we have some shots from the event last month. Meanwhile, we’d like to give Sharyn Steel’s Struggling to Fly a bit of a plug. Sharyn started off as the only woman journalist at a newspaper in 1969, and rose through […]
Getty Images Here’s Rec 2 star Manuela Velasco—known to some readers as Ana Valverde in the hit Antena 3 series La chica de ayer (the Spanish Life on Mars remake)—wearing her Jæger-LeCoultre watch at the photo call for her film at the Venice Film Festival. She’s one of many stars at the Mostra Internazionale, which […]
Former Miss California, Carrie Prejean, sues over firing
Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California who was stripped of her title, is suing K2 Productions, the franchise owner of Miss California USA, according to court documents filed in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles on Monday. K2’s Keith Lewis, the pageant’s executive director, and Shanna Moakler, a former Miss USA, are named […]
