Chanel has opened a temporary boutique at Courchevel in the French Alps for the winter. The 180 m² store features a minimalist décor with the odd flash of colour. It also has stunning views over the entire Courchevel valley. Chanel retails its fragrances, fine jewellery, watches, and the cruise 2011–12 and spring–summer 2012 collections […]
Clive Owen and Megan Fox attend Russian launch of Vertu Constellation
Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images Actors Clive Owen and Megan Fox were at the launch for the Vertu Constellation luxury cellphone in Moskva last night, along with Russian A-listers. Held at the Volkhonka Arts Centre near the Kremlin, the event was hosted by Vertu president Perry Oosting. Singer Anastasia livened up proceedings. Vertu has not […]
CK One unveils global advertising campaign for spring ’11
Steven Meisel Calvin Klein, Coty (the fragrance licensee) and Warnaco (which runs Calvin Klein Underwear and licenses the brand for jeans and swimear) have unveiled the spring advertising campaign for CK One. The campaign, created by Fabien Baron in cooperation with Calvin Klein’s internal ad team, breaks its teasers on February 23 globally, leading […]
Left Our simulation of our Lucire Nokia Ovi app with our news items. Above Nokia’s screen shot of the new Lucire app. While we continue to wait for Apple to approve our Ipad application (how many months has it been now?), Nokia, thankfully, has Lucire’s Ovi app ready to go after four working days. […]
Kiwi entrepreneurs launch Snapr to share mobile photos
[Cross-posted] My friend Edward Talbot (son of fashion designer Helen Talbot), and his friend and business partner Rowan Wernham, launched their Snapr (sna.pr) service today. It’s the ideal way to share geotagged photographs in the 2010s, and I expect these guys to do some great things as Snapr takes off. Snapr was the only […]
Samsung introduces a more eco-friendly phone
We’re a bit dubious hearing the words eco-friendly and cellphone uttered in the same sentence, when you consider how many unwanted handsets are clogging up landfills around the world. But Samsung has announced just that: the Blue Earth cellphone with a touch screen. The touch-screen idea has been around for decades—some of us might […]
Welcoming ‘techfashion’ at W-41
After assistant fashion editor Bronwyn Williams, intern Alice Palmer and I attended the trends’ presentations at Massey University yesterday (which were, incidentally, impressive), it was interesting to see this Dutch label, W-41, embracing another emerging trend: that of combining technology with fashion. At least one group of students touched on this, and seeing it in […]
Lucire expands to cover web video with InTheSeen tie-up
Lucire, New Zealand’s internationally published fashion magazine, has formed an alliance with InTheSeen (intheseen.co.nz), which will provide original online video programming for the title at lucire.tv. This means that Lucire will enter 2009 covering print, web, mobile and online video media. InTheSeen will provide custom, original programming for Lucire, initially in its New Zealand […]
We’re glad to note that our Austrian friends at Fashionof?ce.org have joined us in offering a mobile service. For those who want extra news from Europe, as well as shopping tips, point your cells and mobile devices to www.fashion.at/mobile. Ours, of course, can be found at lucire.info—you can get a feel of the text-driven service […]
Sony Ericsson’s FanWalk brings MTV and Walkmans together
Sony Ericsson and MTV have hosted a FanWalk, where 100 music lovers from Europe, the Middle East and Africa participated in a nine-day, 400 km pilgrimage from London to Liverpool from October 29. The 100 were selected from 3,000 applicants who uploaded an online casting video to fanwalk.tv. They have been uploading personal daily […]
