Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures to be released October 18
Reel Art Press’s latest celebrity volume is by Pattie Boyd, herself a talented photographer who was right in the centre of ’60s pop culture, and had been married to Beatle George Harrison and guitarist Eric Clapton. She inspired Harrison’s ‘Something’ and Clapton’s ‘Layla’ and ‘Wonderful Tonight’. It has been 15 years since her autobiography, […]
Panos Papadopoulos launches his autobiography in Stockholm
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 […]
Sweden’s king of swimwear, Panos Papadopoulos, reveals all in his new autobiography
Toward the end of next week, Panos Papadopoulos’s autobiography, Panos: My Life, My Odyssey, comes out in London, with an event in Stockholm following. This is an intimate memoir about Panos’s rise, from childhood poverty in Greece to the ‘king of swimwear’ in Scandinavia. Not only do I have an advance copy, I collaborated […]
Stefan Engeseth gives away his book, One, in the interests of peace
I always thought One: a Consumer Revolution for Business was one of Stefan Engeseth’s best books, if not the best. He recently posted on Linkedin: ‘readers have told me that the book can lead to a better understanding of people and society (which can end wars).’ In the interests of peace, he thought he’d […]
Margot Robbie on books, as part of Chanel’s Les Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon
The series Les Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon was previewed in 2020 when Charlotte Casiraghi was made a Chanel ambassador. The project brings together female writers and actresses to share their perspectives on literature, and the latest instalment features Margot Robbie. ‘I was a voracious reader when I was little,’ recounts Robbie, ‘and I think I […]
New book steers readers through the world of haute and luxury brands
Already named one of the top branding books of 2021 by The Branding Journal, Philippe Mihailovich and Caroline Taylor’s Haute ‘Luxury’ Branding: the High Luxury Pyramid has appeared in a US English edition, fresh for 2022. Lucire publisher Jack Yan authored the foreword. Mihailovich had been a long-time member of Medinge Group, which Yan […]
SMoss’s third Capt Blackpool book, The Jade Lion, out now
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 […]
André Leon Talley, former Vogue editor-at-large, dies at 73
André Leon Talley as pictured on the cover of his 2020 memoir, The Chiffon Trenches. The enigmatic former Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley, 73, has died in hospital in White Plains, New York, from an unknown illness, according to his literary agent. Born in Washington, DC in 1948 but raised by his maternal grandmother […]
Manfred Baumann’s Face to Face shows intimate, personal celebrity portraits
Manfred Baumann Manfred Baumann has released a new book with celebrity shots, called Face to Face, featuring international stars who have posed for him and his Leica such as Martin Sheen, Olivia Newton-John, William Shatner, John Malkovich, Sylvester Stallone, Kathleen Turner, Ron Perlman, Thomas Kretschmann, Danny Trejo, Gene Simmons, Jean-Claude van Damme, T. J. Thyne, […]
SMoss’s Great Again charts the course of the Trump presidency
Lucire travel editor Stanley Moss, writing as SMoss, has put together a limited edition volume documenting the presidency of Donald J. Trump, available in both a hardcover collectors’ edition and a smaller paperback. Entitled Great Again, the book begins with a cover showing a worn ‘Make America Great Again’ cap discarded on the […]
