Supermodel Tatjana Patitz dead at 56 from metastatic breast cancer
One of the original supermodels, Patitz was active in modelling from the 1980s to 2019, and was one of the industry’s most sought-after faces during the height of her career […]
Five from 1999: a more experimental, optimistic time
Uploading five old articles (originally removed for space reasons when server hard drives were smaller) reminds Jack Yan of the internet culture of the late 1990s […]
Dr Martens × Rick Owens collaboration: extravagant boots with ’90s grunge
Rick Owens’ non-conformist nature finds itself on two Dr Martens boots […]
XOXO brings back Hugs & Kisses with Ellie Thumann
Shane LaVancher As we indicated both online and in print, the 1990s are definitely back in vogue, with XOXO reviving its Hugs & Kisses campaign—this time with model and YouTuber Ellie Thumann. Thumann follows in the footsteps of Claudia Schiffer, Adriana Lima, Miranda Kerr, Tyra Banks, Alessandra Ambrosio, Chrissy Teigen and others. Shane LaVancher […]
In another entry for our 25th anniversary, Jack Yan recalls some of the people who helped get us to this milestone […]
The return of Nicole and Papa: Renault tells real-life stories to promote Mégane E-Tech
We’ve already heard the ‘Johnny and Mary’ song return to Renault commercials, and now it’s the turn of Nicole and Papa, Renault UK’s iconic daughter-and-father duo who helped get the original Clio into the country’s top-ten sellers in the early 1990s. This time, it’s the all-electric Mégane E-Tech that’s the star of the commercials, […]
A 25th anniversary retrospective: leading up to Lucire’s launch in 1997
Above: Lucire’s holding page, as archived by the Internet Archive on October 17, 1997. There was no semicolon in JY&A Media; this appears to have been a bug from the Archive’s spider, as explained here. Normally, I wouldn’t be browsing the Internet Archive for old Lucire pages, especially as I have all of them […]
Dr Martens × Heaven by Marc Jacobs shows spring ’22 collaboration
What were we just saying about the 1990s? It’s very much in vogue right now (as you can read in Lucire issue 45) and it’s something Dr Martens has tapped into with its second collaboration with Heaven by Marc Jacobs, this time for spring–summer 2022. Working with Heaven creative director Ava Nirui, Dr Martens […]
Sweden’s king of swimwear, Panos Papadopoulos, reveals all in his new autobiography
Toward the end of next week, Panos Papadopoulos’s autobiography, Panos: My Life, My Odyssey, comes out in London, with an event in Stockholm following. This is an intimate memoir about Panos’s rise, from childhood poverty in Greece to the ‘king of swimwear’ in Scandinavia. Not only do I have an advance copy, I collaborated […]
Fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier dead at 78
Above, from top: Princess Diana, London, 1990. Nadja, New York, 1995. Nude, St Barthélemy, 1994. Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé at the Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 2002. Gisèle Bündchen for Chanel, 2014. Celebrated fashion photographer, Patrick Demarchelier, died Thursday aged 78. No cause of death was given as news of his […]
