A golfing summer: Lydia Ko and well known Kiwis team up as golf ambassadors
New Zealand is once again promoting women’s golf this November, as Kiwi Lydia Ko herself returns as one of seven high-profile She Loves Golf ambassadors. Also back are Toni Street, Laura McGoldrick and Jamie Curry, this year joined by She Loves Golf newbies Matilda Rice and Daisy Dagg. With a month of activities, Lucire readers […]
Gillian Saunders takes top honours at 2016 World of Wearable Art Awards’ Show, with Supernova
WOW New Zealand designer Gillian Saunders has scooped the Brancott Estate Supreme Award at tonight’s World of Wearable Art (WOW) Awards’ Show. Saunders, who had entered 15 garments before her winning entry, Supernova, has won eight awards prior to 2016, but this is the first time she has taken out the top prize. Saunders, […]
Brancott Estate and BlueChilli offer A$35,000 prize for the best, most innovative wine idea
From February 4 to March 6, Brancott Estate and BlueChilli have teamed up to find the best ideas on how to revolutionize the way people enjoy wine, with a cash prize of A$35,000 on offer. Their Winexplorer challenge seeks to find five finalists who have pitched their best ideas for wine through Brancott Estate’s […]
Win a luxury skin care pack with Lucire and Skin Institute
Before 2015 is out, Lucire has the pleasure of announcing another giveaway, this time in association with Skin Institute. Skin Institute is a multi-disciplinary specialist centre focusing on cosmetic medicine, skin cancer detection and treatment, clinical dermatology, vein treatment and surgery, and its 18th clinic has recently opened in central Wellington. To commemorate […]
New Zealand is promoting women’s golf during November, in the wake of Kiwi Lydia Ko regaining her world number-one position after winning the Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship, with a month of activities—while Lucire readers can get a fantastic giveaway as part of the She Loves Golf campaign (hashtagged #shelovesgolf). The campaign, with Ko, Toni […]
Spark to help one Kiwi hopeful into the fashion industry
Above The home page of the Spark My Potential website. Following on from its Spark Lab Fashion Month announcement, the New Zealand telco will support one New Zealander who wishes to start in the fashion industry. The successful applicant, to be announced on February 27 as Fashion Month concludes, will be supported through the […]
Absolut Vodka launches Andy Warhol limited-edition bottle into New Zealand
Absolut Vodka’s latest limited-edition bottle pays tribute to one of the greatest pop culture icons of all: Andy Warhol. Warhol was the first artist to create an original artwork for Absolut in the 1980s, for an advertisement simply titled, ‘Absolut Warhol’. The image has become iconic and arguably helped make the Absolut bottle recognizable […]
Georgia Alice, Lucy McIntosh, Sly Guild named as finalists for DHL scholarship
Above A design from the Georgia Alice look-book. Georgia Alice, Lucy McIntosh and Sly Guild are the three finalists for this year’s DHL Express Fashion Export Scholarship. Judges Dan Gosling (the inaugural winner, seven years ago, as co-founder of Stolen Girlfriends’ Club), John Kelly (Max Fashions), Paul Blomfield (Fashion Industry New Zealand) and Megan […]
Sarah Michelle Gellar to judge Specsavers’ Spectacle Wearer of the Year in New Zealand
Sarah Michelle Gellar is the New Zealand judge and ambassador for Specsavers’ Spectacle Wearer of the Year. Gellar, best known for her role in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, and who made a notable impression in last year’s The Crazy Ones—Lucire’s favourite US sitcom of ’13—alongside the late Robin Williams, joins a panel of judges […]
Dan Gosling of Stolen Girlfriends’ Club joins DHL Express Fashion Export Scholarship judges
Dan Gosling of Stolen Girlfriends’ Club is one of the judges of the seventh annual DHL Express Fashion Export Scholarship, a prize his label took out in the inaugural competition in 2008. Gosling joins Max Fashions CEO John Kelly, FINZ chairman Paul Blomfield, and DHL national strategic account manager for fashion and textiles Megan […]
