Sponsored video: Renault Clio’s ‘va va voom’ button
A Lucire special promotion Today, Lucire has come full circle. One of the earliest stories on the web for our group was on the Renault Clio’s Nicole and Papa campaign, created in the early 1990s by Publicis. The Clio, which was the first Renault to hit the best sellers’ lists consistently in the UK, was […]
Ride4Life, raising money for the Neonatal Trust, hits Wellington
Jack Yan/Lucire Lucire is already a huge fan of Project Born, which raises money for the Neonatal Trust. So when we heard Ride4Life 2013, benefiting the same charity, would be passing through Wellington, naturally, we wanted to get on board to help this worthy cause. The fundraising event sees a core team of eight […]
Online poll puts Mercedes-Benz A-Klasse as 2012’s most beautiful car
The online poll for the Most Beautiful Car of 2012, run by Eurosport, Festival Automobile International, J. C. Decaux, Bell & Ross, Le Point and Automobiles Classiques, has been won by the new, W176-series Mercedes-Benz A-Klasse. In second place was the third-generation Mazda Atenza, followed by the Renault Clio IV and the BMW 3er-Reihe […]
Getting Nicole Kidman’s look at the Producers’ Guild and SAG awards
Since it’s awards’ season in Hollywood, celebrity hairstylist David Babaii has been hard at work again, this time working on Nicole Kidman. At the Producers’ Guild Awards (top), Kidman had a fringe and a half-up, half-down do. Babaii used IT&LY Hairfashion’s eco-friendly, cruelty-free Purity Design Line. He began with blow-drying, with a mixture of […]
Lucire’s on Ipad and Android; plus a round-up of some of our latest features
As officially announced in time for our 15th anniversary, Lucire is now available on the Ipad (and Iphone and Ipod Touch) as well as Android. You can check out the Ipad app here, available via Magzter at the Apple App Store, while Google Play has our Android app. There is a charge of US$6·99 per […]
Lucire updates: from new cars to Wonderland, not to mention our downloadable issue
There’s been plenty on the main part of the Lucire website that readers may have missed over the last month. In the ‘Living’ section, publisher Jack Yan has tested the BMW X3 Xdrive20d and, perhaps more down to earth for the majority of our readers, the Renault Mégane 2·0 CVT—well timed as New Zealand readers […]
New Zealand Fashion Week New Gen designers create four special BMW X1s
They’re not quite the famous BMW Art Cars, but they come close: four of the New Gen design labels at New Zealand Fashion Week have created their own BMW X1 vehicles, using inspiration from their collections to decorate the SUVs. Dmonic Intent, Silence Was, Daniel K and Arielle Mermin worked with BMW, Omnigraphics and […]
Cheryl Cole steps out in 1950s style for ‘Under the Sun’ video
Cheryl Cole’s video for her new song, ‘Under the Sun’, has been released, with a sexy time-warp theme. The Geordie songstress attracts the attention of every man in the video, which has props and fashions from almost every era from the 1940s to the present day. While Cole’s 1950s’ costume—a yellow brassière, cream […]
BMW Art Cars on show in London for the first time
The BMW Art Cars will be on show in the UK for the first time from July 21 to August 4 at the NCP Car Park on Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch. The exhibition, Art Drive! The BMW Art Car Collection, has been brought to the UK by the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), BMW, […]
Acclaimed car designer, Sergio Pininfarina, dies aged 85
The celebrated automotive designer, Sergio Pininfarina, whose name graced some of the most memorable Ferraris and other cars, died last night in Torino. He was 85. Pininfarina was the second generation of the family in automotive design, the son of founder Battista ‘Pinin’ Farina. Sergio Farina was born in Torino on September 8, […]
