YSL, first of two bio-pics on Yves Saint Laurent, opens today amid controversy
Thibault Grabherr and Anouchka de Williencourt/SND Top Pierre Niney as Yves Saint Laurent and Guillaume Gallienne as Pierre Bergé in YSL. Above Pierre Niney as Yves Saint Laurent and Charlotte Le Bon as Victoire Doutreleau. The first of two bio-pics on fashion design legend Yves Saint Laurent opens today in France. YSL, directed by […]
Polaroid projection: originality in the digital age
In a modern context, we look to social media to promote us and to expand our visibility in the world. Images are posted and reposted, only to be reposted again. Even this blog is an attempt to promote what I want the world to see of myself, to reach more people than I see in […]
H&M plans Manila store; Women Expo Switzerland prepares for ’14; Victoria’s Secret opens at LAX
Hennes & Mauritz says it will open a store in the Philippines, its first foray into the southeast Asian region. The flagship store will open in 2014 inside SM Megamall, Manila. The company has already inked the deal. Another 2014 event is Women Expo Switzerland (WES), the only creative women’s exhibition in Switzerland, will […]
Updated May 17, 2013 at 12.46 p.m. GMT with videos from Jennifer Keishin Armstrong In the 36 years since The Mary Tyler Moore Show ended, we’ve had snippets of information here and there: TV specials celebrating various anniversaries, articles when the release of the disappointing Mary & Rhoda TV movie appeared, and retrospectives when Mary […]
Sponsored video: a retro men’s fashion look for Pringles’ latest campaign
A Lucire special promotion Kellogg’s has been a supporter of Lucire for years, especially in the early to mid-2000s when we ran a few things together. With the acquisition of Pringles, they’ve embarked on a fun, if slightly bizarre, advertising campaign that some of our UK readers can see. Its Fan vs. Sour Cream […]
Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta reunite for Christmas album: first video released
It’s not the first time that the movie version of the musical Grease has inspired a charity single—Britons of a certain age will remember Hylda Baker (‘She knows, you know’) and Arthur Mullard teaming up for a cover of ‘You’re the One that I Want’ in 1978—but this time, it is with the original stars, […]
Manolo Blahnik to receive Outstanding Achievement Award at 2012 British Fashion Awards
Manolo Blahnik The British Fashion Council has announced that Manolo Blahnik, CBE, whose name is intimately associated with high-end footwear design, will receive the Outstanding Achievement Award at this year’s British Fashion Awards. ‘This special award celebrates and recognizes one designer, who throughout their career, has made an impact on the global fashion industry,’ […]
Fiat 500 goes 1970s-trendy with Colour Therapy range
When we saw some of the publicity pictures of cars these past few years, we knew the 1970s were threatening to come back: bright greens at Ford, oranges at Subaru among them, as evidenced at Autocade. Fiat has been more explicit with its fashionable 500. The retro-chic car, which was inspired by the 500 […]
Video: a preview of Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style, opening on Friday
As previewed in Lucire in April, Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style is about to open at the Barbican Centre in London, focusing on the Bond look. Media were given a preview this week. Among the exhibits were one of the Aston Martin DB5s from Goldfinger, Scaramanga’s golden gun from The Man with […]
If you grew up in the ’80s, were female and discovered you liked ’70s progressive rock act Yes, chances are it was because of Trevor Rabin, the virtuoso guitar player who suddenly made it cool for everybody outside the band’s original white male audience to attend the shows and play the songs and their videos […]
