Founder and publisher Jack Yan has a few thoughts as Lucire turns 26—and he’s not going to retell the story about the day we started […]
Thoughts as we reach our 26th anniversary
October 20, 2023/10.30
Tag: 1997
Today’s choice of story is so unlike Lucire’s first full day 25 years ago
October 21, 2022/11.21
Jack Yan explains why we’ve put our print story about Olivia Macklin on to the web today, 25 years after we first went online […]
October 20, 2022/15.37
After some build-up articles during 2022, we’ve finally got there—our 25th birthday. Jack Yan gathers his thoughts […]
June 23, 2022/13.11
In another entry for our 25th anniversary, Jack Yan recalls some of the people who helped get us to this milestone […]
A 25th anniversary retrospective: leading up to Lucire’s launch in 1997
June 2, 2022/3.28
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 […]
October 20, 2017/11.00
There goes 20 years. Normally when we celebrate a birthday, we do what most magazines do: there’s a story on our founding, some of our best covers, and a nod to the past. I’ll be right up front: despite having thoughts of doing all of that, we haven’t planned anything for this particular day, October […]
Companies behind Wellington label Starfish appoint liquidators
May 10, 2013/4.20
Above From Starfish’s heyday: the summer 2010–11 collection, Free Radical. The companies behind Starfish have appointed liquidators, according to public notices placed in metropolitan newspapers today. Both Starfish Retail Ltd. and Starfish Wholesale Ltd. went into liquidation as of May 8, with creditors expected to make their claims with Price Waterhouse Coopers in Wellington, […]
Lucire turns 15: bring on the future
October 21, 2012/9.45
I’ve written so many editorials about Lucire’s history for our various anniversaries that now we’ve turned 15, I feel like I’d just be going over old ground. Again. I’d do it maybe for the 20th or 21st, but the story has been told online and in print many times. But 15 is a bit […]
October 20, 2010/13.08
Above The first issue of Lucire in 1997. Below right Lucire’s first iPad cover. n hour ago, we turned 13. Normally this wouldn’t have merited much of a mention, since 13’s not the sort of number people tend to celebrate. But I happened to be up, after a long day catching up on emails post-election, […]
Ralph Lauren, Luxe Boutique open online stores in UK
October 14, 2010/12.27
This was the sort of news item that would come in via the press release wires and be easily missed: ‘Polo Ralph Lauren will further extend its e-commerce reach with the launch of Ralphlauren.com in the United Kingdom this October.’ It’s taken 10 years for the ecommerce site to cross the Pond, with the […]
