Hennes & Mauritz has released its full set of Conscious Exclusive images for 2018, with Christy Turlington Burns, Aamito Lagum, and Giedrė Dukauskaitė modelling, in photographs by Mikael Jansson, who has worked with the Swedish retailer over many campaigns. The collection, previewed in Lucire in February, hits select H&M stores on April 19, with […]
Spring 2019 should see the completion of the Hard Rock Hotel New Orleans and the Residences at the Hard Rock Hotel New Orleans, an 18-storey building on what the company describes as a ‘landmark’ corner in the French quarter. It will be blocks away from the sixth largest convention centre in the US, and it’s […]
Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns fronts H&M Conscious Exclusive’s 2018 campaign
Mikael Jansson Lucire is UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner. Christy Turlington Burns, one of the original supermodels, stars in the 2018 H&M Conscious Exclusive campaign, to be released on April 19, 2018. New Zealand’s H&M Sylvia Park store will be the first to retail the new line. The collection of womenswear, shoes and […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s highly anticipated The Piano: the Ballet premières February 23
Ross Brown/RNZB Above: Abigail Boyle as Ada in The Piano: the Ballet. Arguably the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s most anticipated production of the year, The Piano: the Ballet, will have its world première in Wellington on February 23, presented in association with the New Zealand Festival and the Auckland Arts’ Festival. Inspired by the […]
Designer Trish Peng and florist Melissa Connor collaborate for New Zealand Flowers’ Week
Tom Hollow Designer Trish Peng has teamed up with the National Flower Promotion Group to celebrate New Zealand Flowers’ Week this week. A korowai was (traditional Māori cloak) covered in lilies by Melissa Connor of Melissa Jane Flower Studio, and paired with Trish Peng’s Hope gown. The concept originated with Connor, who first created […]
Mr Porter launches Mr P. own label; the Daily Edited has a New Zealand pop-up for one day only
Mr Porter has announced its own label, Mr P., débuting today (November 7) on its website. The collection will feature core staples, with five limited-edition capsules per year. Their muses for this first capsule are the School of London artists of the 1960s. The collection comprises 53 items, including 24 available year-round and 29 […]
Baz Luhrmann’s The Secret Life of Flowers film for Erdem × H&M released
Two men in Erdem × H&M clothes, with a noticeable floral pattern, head to the countryside in a Mercedes-Benz R107, to ‘Redham Gardens, where it is always spring’—and so begins another artistic journey by filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, for H&M. The film, dubbed The Secret Life of Flowers, starring Tom Rhys Harries, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, […]
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 […]
Oppo launches R11 in New Zealand, with sales beginning August 28
One of China’s fast selling smartphone brands, Oppo, has launched its flagship R11 in New Zealand, with dual 20 megapixel cameras (20 Mpixel and 16 Mpixel rear, 20 Mpixel front), a f/1·7 aperture, a 14-bit Qualcomm Spectra 160 ISP image processor, and a Snapdragon 660 platform. In lay terms, it’s one of the sharpest phones […]
Harlem-Cruz Ihaia crowned Miss Universe New Zealand 2017
Alan Raga Harlem-Cruz Ihaia was crowned Miss Universe New Zealand 2017 at Skycity Theatre before an international audience in 51 countries, including a national television audience watching live on Bravo TV in New Zealand and a stream right here at Lucire. The 19-year-old bilingual kohanga reo teacher from Napier won both the Entrepreneurial Challenge, […]
