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BMW reveals new Z4: first videos

January 5, 2009/12.02

The BMW Z4 came across as a far more butch sports car than the prissy Z3 that came before it, helped in no small part by the series of BMW Films starring Clive Owen. At the Detroit Auto Show, BMW reveals an all-new Z4 that’s longer and wider, with longer doors allowing for easier access, […]

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Claudia Schiffer next with beauty line?

January 4, 2009/11.28

Yet another supermodel might be launching a cosmetics’ range: Britain’s Daily Mail tabloid says Claudia Schiffer is planning a line for the summer, to sell alongside a jewellery range that bears her name.    Both Cindy Crawford and Elle Macpherson, Schiffer’s supermodel contemporaries from the 1980s and 1990s, have beauty ranges that they endorse.   […]

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TOMS Shoes, Rag-bag, Paul Newman among Medinge Brands with a Conscience winners

January 1, 2009/7.42

Above: A 2005 photograph of Paul Newman with ‘Paul’, an eight-year-old Victory Junction Gang camper, during the Las Vegas Champ Car 400. Among the Medinge Group’s Brands with a Conscience winners, announced today by the international branding think-tank, is TOMS Shoes, known for donating a pair to communities in need whenever one is bought. Annually, […]

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Back for 2009

/5.51

Happy 2009 to all our readers!    Things were a bit strange technologically over the last few weeks. For those who have noticed slight improvements in server speeds, your imagination is not playing tricks on you. The Lucire site is indeed faster, but to get here, we had to go to a new machine, change […]

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Breakfast at Shanti Home

December 30, 2008/17.12

While Stanley had grander breakfasts at Shanti Home, I was in a rush one morning. Chef Adil Khan promised he could rustle something up in five minutes and he was true to his word, as the masala omelette and mango juice (left) appeared very rapidly.    During less rushed mornings, the chef and his team […]

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Dawn in the ’hood

December 25, 2008/5.36

After Stanley Moss stayed at New Delhi’s Shanti Home earlier this year, I found myself confirming every word he wrote: it is truly a home away from home, exhibiting the very best of Indian hospitality.    Waking up to these views is a very amazing experience for Christmas week. The human emotions of kindness are […]

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Simply Paris dans la nouvelle ville

December 20, 2008/11.03

Simply Paris, famous in Wellington for its pastries and French cuisine, opened a new shop in the capital city’s fast-gentrifying Newtown district (at 112 Riddiford Street) on December 18. Pascal and Agnès Chivot welcomed such luminaries as HE Michel Legras, Ambassador of France; Her Worship Kerry Prendergast, Mayor of Wellington; Miss New Zealand Samantha Powell […]

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Stars help Juicy Couture open flagship store

/8.25

Juicy Couture decided to buck the doom and gloom of American economic news by opening its Fifth Avenue flagship store in New York City—and plenty of celebrities turned out to support founders Gela Nash-Taylor and Pamela Skaist-Levy. Juicy Couture—which Lucire has been covering for years as well—now emcompasses swimwear, sunglasses, intimates, kids’ and babies’ clothing, […]

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Lucire expands to cover web video with InTheSeen tie-up

December 14, 2008/11.40

Lucire, New Zealand’s internationally published fashion magazine, has formed an alliance with InTheSeen (intheseen.co.nz), which will provide original online video programming for the title at lucire.tv. This means that Lucire will enter 2009 covering print, web, mobile and online video media.    InTheSeen will provide custom, original programming for Lucire, initially in its New Zealand […]

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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy sues over nude photograph on bags

December 13, 2008/10.17

French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is suing Pardon, a Reunion-based clothing company, for using a nude image of her from a 1993 photo shoot on one of its bags. The caption reads, ‘Mon mec aurait du m’acheter du Pardon,’ or ‘My man should have bought me Pardon.’    Bruni-Sarkozy’s lawyer’s spokesman, Iqbal Akhoun, has told […]

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