Known for combining glamour and energy in modern fashion, Roberto Cavalli was often the life and soul of the party […]
Roberto Cavalli passes away in Firenze, aged 83
April 12, 2024/23.37
Tag: 2010s
A look at our history: the 25th anniversary montage
January 30, 2024/8.56
Jack Yan shares a graphic that’s so far only been seen in print: a montage we created at the time of our 25th anniversary in 2022, showing the landmark moments in our print editions’ history […]
Music legend Tony Bennett passes away, aged 96
July 21, 2023/23.06
With 20 Grammy Awards to his name, Tony Bennett will be remembered for a career that spanned eight decades, finding success initially in the 1950s, and to new legions of fans from the 1980s on […]
The cars I tested, but didn’t write up—till now
August 21, 2022/0.46
Some cars we’ve evaluated in Lucire haven’t wound up in our pages. Jack Yan looks at a selection that didn’t warrant full features […]
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 […]
Publisher’s picks: a selection of our favourite Lucire print covers
March 11, 2022/20.21
With our 25th anniversary, I’ve been wanting to look back through some of our shoots. Originally I had the idea of looking back at our favourite photographers, but that proved impossible, as there are so many styles and approaches that we can’t fairly rank one above another. In the overwhelming majority of cases, we’ve loved […]
SMoss’s third Capt Blackpool book, The Jade Lion, out now
March 4, 2022/0.28
As many of you know, our travel editor Stanley Moss has penned a number of fiction titles, among them two novels starring Capt Harry Blackpool, a veteran of His Majesty’s Guards and a secret agent, and storylines that take you on a grand tour of 19th-century society (and a little of the 18th in […]
Welcome to our 25th anniversary year
January 3, 2022/12.30
This year, 2022, marks our 25th anniversary. It is a landmark, and we’ve been incredibly blessed to have made it to a quarter-century. When I started Lucire I had hoped it would be around in 2022 and beyond, but I couldn’t have foreseen the many changes on our planet over the last 25 years. […]
Revamping Lucire to look sharper on mobile devices
October 10, 2021/9.48
The astute among you will have seen some changes taking place on a few pages in Lucire’s online edition. First one article was switched to a new template, then it was the home page (where there’s a slider with three stories), and now all the news pages (which are run on the Wordpress content management […]
Account restored: we’re back on Instagram
October 6, 2021/2.44
Lucire’s Instagram account has been reinstated, with Instagram parent company Facebook claiming that there had been a breach of its terms of service. I am personally thankful for those who responded to me and restored the account. Their email states, inter alia, ‘You can’t attempt to create accounts or access or collect information in unauthorized […]
