Lucire
The global fashion magazine March 29, 2024 
Out now: Lucire issue 48, with free shipping for UK and US

An appeal for Hasan

February 26, 2024/9.20

Behind the scenes with Lucire founder and publisher Jack Yan, with an appeal for a family in Gaza, the difficulties of becoming an Amazon seller, and the hopelessness of AI-written stories […]

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Pairing is caring: introducing K-beauty brand Cosrx

November 16, 2022/12.10

  Just when you thought K-beauty has faded into the mainstream landscape, emergent brand Cosrx has arrived on the scene. Its differentiation lies in a “less is more” philosophy, using a minimal number of highly effective natural extracts in concentrated doses to achieve visible results by treating skin with only the essentials it needs and […]

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Panos Papadopoulos launches his autobiography in Stockholm

June 1, 2022/14.26

  There’s no FOMO like the one you get when a book you’ve worked on for 10 months is launched—and your schedule (and, as it turned out, the ’flu), prevents you from attending the party on the other side of the world. But fortunately one of my best friends, Stefan Engeseth, attended in my place […]

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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 […]

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After the events of January 6, Emily Ratajkowski and others point to the real dangers

January 8, 2021/12.53

Inez & Vinoodh/Kérastase Above: Emily Ratajkowski (centre) in a new promotion for Kérastase, as promoted on her Instagram. But it’s what she wrote on Twitter that’s far more on point with the events of January 6 in the US. When you have US friends on all sides of the political spectrum—greens, Democrats, Republicans, libertarians—you tend […]

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Cooling off at Cosmoprof 2017

July 26, 2017/2.14

At 300,000 ft², 1,278 exhibitors and more than 36,000 attendees, Cosmoprof North America continues its reign as the world’s leading beauty industry symposium and market-place. Every facet of the beauty industry was gorgeously represented at the plush and cool Mandalay Bay Convention Center, making attendees almost forget the unrelenting Las Vegas heat. It was a […]

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Kate Moss by Mario Testino now in paperback; US, New Zealand release in April

February 4, 2011/11.51

Although news of Mario Testino’s book featuring his favourite muse, supermodel Kate Moss, has been around since 2010, publication of the paperback version of the lavish Taschen volume won’t be till this month in the UK. It’s heading to New Zealand through New Holland Publishers in April, at the price of NZ$150.    It’s astounding […]

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