Lucire
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Panos Emporio celebrates 25th anniversary in Stockholm tonight

February 10, 2011/13.07

Top From Panos Emporio’s latest beachwear collection. Above Models rehearse for tonight’s 25th anniversary catwalk show. Tonight, Panos Emporio, Sweden’s leading beachwear label, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a grand party in Stockholm.    Panos Papadopoulos, whose odyssey has been told before in the pages of Lucire, will celebrate a quarter-century since his company’s founding […]

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Designer snippets: Pierre Garroudi, Panos Emporio, Nicholas Jermyn, Jennyfer

October 24, 2010/11.28

On the main part of the Lucire site, two stories about European designers. First, Pierre Garroudi might hail from Teheran, but he has a workroom in London, which our photographer Doug Rimington visited. It’s a beautifully shot story, as you can imagine from Doug.    Secondly, Panos Papadopoulos, a good friend of this magazine, celebrates […]

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Roberto Cavalli, Elena Santarelli and Karolína Kurková launch Dea glasses

September 30, 2010/10.29

Above Roberto Cavalli, flanked by Elena Santarelli and Karolína Kurková at the launch—both with and without sunglasses. Above Edoardo Tabacchi, Franca dall’Ara (Salmoiraghi & Viganò), Roberto Cavalli, and Maurizio Marcolin. Above Roberto Cavalli and Karolína Kurková. Above One of the two Roberto Cavalli Dea designs, commemorating his 40th anniversary. Roberto Cavalli, celebrating his label’s 40th […]

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Jaguar shows XJ75 concept at Pebble Beach—video

August 14, 2010/13.08

Nick Dimbleby Top The Jaguar XJ75 Concept, showing at Pebble Beach today. Above Jaguar celebrates the 75th anniversary of its name. Starting with the front, then going right to left: the famous Appleyard Jaguar XK120, registration NUB 120, of 1949; 1951 Jaguar C-type; 1954 Jaguar D-type; 1961 Jaguar Lightweight E-type; the Jaguar Mark 2 saloon; […]

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Range Rover, Victoria Beckham show new Evoque model

July 2, 2010/0.51

Victoria Beckham was one of the guests at the launch of the Range Rover Evoque, held in conjunction with Vogue at Kensington Palace yesterday.    Beckham, who was announced as the company’s creative design executive, said she was looking forward to working with Range Rover design director Gerry McGovern.    ‘I’m incredibly excited to be […]

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Land Rover celebrates 20 years of the Discovery

November 17, 2009/21.47

In many respects, we’re lucky the Land Rover Discovery is still around. In 1989, the British motor industry was excited by the prospect of a new model from Land Rover that would bridge the gap between the iconic Defender model and the Range Rover, which had become ever more plush in the 1980s. Tipped to […]

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Twelve things you might not have known about Lucire

October 20, 2009/11.00

This post has gone online exactly 12 years since Lucire went live on the internet (October 20, 1997, 6 a.m. EST), to commemorate our anniversary.    Since those humble beginnings, Lucire has branched out from the web and into international print editions. And rather than go on about our history as we did in editions […]

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Honouring 9-11

September 11, 2009/14.07

I don’t think we could let September 11, 2009 pass without marking what had happened in the United States eight years ago. As with this year, the day fell during New York Fashion Week, and as the publisher I had a few things to contend with.    I had returned to Wellington from Manhattan only […]

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Manuel Bozzi commemorates Woodstock’s 40th

July 15, 2009/6.45

Pisa-based jewellery designer Manuel Bozzi has released his Flying Standard Gibson pendant to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock on August 15. Bozzi, according to his company, is a rock and roll fan, and the new pendant is a continuation of an earlier theme he started. He already knows the Gibson Flying V Standard guitar […]

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Mini United celebrates 50 years of an icon

May 27, 2009/14.07

Last weekend, 25,000 enthusiasts from over 40 countries attended the Mini United Festival at Silverstone to celebrate the 50th anniversary of an automotive icon. It’s hard to believe that the Mini celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, having cemented itself as one of the 20th century’s most significant cars and a style icon in its […]

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