The Lancôme brand started in perfumes before branching out into the wide range of skin care and cosmetics, but now Mellerio dits Meller has taken it as an inspiration to create high jewellery. The famed jeweller, founded in 1613, has created a design to adorn 80 flasks of the limited-edition La vie est belle […]
The Body Shop celebrates 12 years of its Tea Tree range with super-sized additions
The Body Shop’s Tea Tree range is celebrating its 12th year in production with a limited-edition super-sized collection of natural, skin-friendly products. From its launch in 1993, exclusive to Australia and New Zealand, the demand for the little bottle that packs a punch allowed for wider global distribution one year later. Now, as one […]
Footnote New Zealand Dance celebrates its 30th anniversary this August with première and events
Above Footnote at its home at 125 Cuba Street. Footnote New Zealand Dance celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and on August 28–9, it will première 30Forward at the Wellington Opera House to mark the anniversary. The première will take place in Wellington, before heading to the Christchurch Arts Festival, Auckland’s Tempo Dance Festival, […]
Linden Leaves celebrates 20th anniversary with indulgent Gold range
Linden Leaves is celebrating its 20th anniversary with style, with its Gold range hitting New Zealand stores and www.lindenleaves.com on August 1. The six entries in the range begin with the Gold body lotion (150 ml, NZ$64·99), a moisturizer with a light shimmer effect, featuring red rice extract and certified organic amaranth protein, helping […]
Reasons to raise a glass as Stoneleigh, Mumm, Hennessy and Ardbeg celebrate around the world
Victor Boyko/Getty Images Top Mark Ronson celebrates with Champagne Mumm in Monaco. Above Julie Nollet, Raphaël Gérard, Hervé Mikaeloff, Olga Kisseleva, Bernard Peillon, Laurent Pernot, and François Xavier Desplancke pose at the ribbon-cutting ceremony during the Hennessy 250 Tour at the New Manege in Moskva. Below left The award-winning Stoneleigh Latitude Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2014. […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Salute, commemorating the centenary of World War I, to première May 22
Ross Brown Above Dancer Joseph Skelton. One of the most anticipated ballets from the Royal New Zealand Ballet, since news of it was announced in 2014, will première in Wellington on May 22. Salute, which comprises four dance works to mark the centenary of World War I, will tour Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Takapuna, Auckland and […]
Chris Jackson Harold Cunningham IWC Schaffhausen, with its CEO Georges Kern playing host, celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Portugieser watch line at the SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie) at the at the Palexpo in Genève on Tuesday, followed with its ‘Journey to the Stars’ gala dinner. Karolína Kurková and Adriana Lima […]
H&M celebrates 10 years of designer collaborations with new book launching November 6
Time has flown: it has been 10 years since Hennes & Mauritz began its designer collaborations, the first with Karl Lagerfeld. The company will release a book, The First Ten Years, coinciding with its Alexander Wang x H&M launch on November 6. At the time, Lucire called it a move toward ‘attainable luxury’: […]
Adding to the goody bags at Miss Universe New Zealand’s Dunedin Stiletto Camps were handy Mini Cuticle Oil+ packs from Orly. The Orly brand is already well known to those who know their nails and want to keep them strong and healthy—and Orly’s colours are DBP-, formaldehyde- and toulene-free. The Mini Cuticle Oil+ nourishes dry […]
Sponsored video: behind the scenes of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit–Air New Zealand safety video
A Lucire special promotion Air New Zealand, a member of the Star Alliance network, has already received a bit of press for its latest safety video, starring four current Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue models, and veteran Christie Brinkley, who was put on the map thanks to the annual, iconic magazine special. But what happened behind […]
