Polaroid projection: originality in the digital age
In a modern context, we look to social media to promote us and to expand our visibility in the world. Images are posted and reposted, only to be reposted again. Even this blog is an attempt to promote what I want the world to see of myself, to reach more people than I see in […]
French media have fewer controversies in Miss France 2014’s lead-up
Miss France Above The 33 contestants for Miss France 2014 in swimwear. Without an active guerre de Miss being played out in front of the French media, the proceedings seem a bit quieter for Miss France 2014. Now that Miss France and its former director, Geneviève de Fontenay, have settled their legal dispute, with […]
H&M plans Manila store; Women Expo Switzerland prepares for ’14; Victoria’s Secret opens at LAX
Hennes & Mauritz says it will open a store in the Philippines, its first foray into the southeast Asian region. The flagship store will open in 2014 inside SM Megamall, Manila. The company has already inked the deal. Another 2014 event is Women Expo Switzerland (WES), the only creative women’s exhibition in Switzerland, will […]
Paul McGann appears in ‘The Night of the Doctor’ as Doctor Who’s cultural impact felt
As the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who nears—its première is on November 23, along with an international simulcast—the BBC has released a short mini-episode, ‘The Night of the Doctor’, starring Paul McGann. The episode is an unexpected gift to fans, after McGann told the press that he was not involved in the […]
Something for everyone at the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Tower Tutus on Tour
The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Tower Tutus on Tour, which débuted at the St James Theatre in Wellington last night, offers something for everyone—especially younger ballet-goers, who will enjoy the second half. As the intent of Tutus on Tour is to showcase the RNZB in different centres, especially those that might not have had […]
Kustom Kulture returns at the Huntington Beach Art Center
Stanley Moss Lucire had the pleasure of attending tonight’s VIP opening of Kustom Kulture II, presented by the Huntington Beach Art Center, a 20-year anniversary tribute to an original exhibition presented at the Laguna Art Museum in 1993. Curated by C. R. Stecyk, Paul Frank and Greg Escalante, the exhibition directs a contemporary […]
New beauty brand KD One gives back to the community with Africa Day events
As Wellington gears up to Africa Day this Saturday, with a 12-hour celebration at the Wellington Town Hall beginning at 11.30 a.m., there’s a distinctively non-African name behind the scenes doing the make-up for the fashion show on the day, as well as the smaller Taste of Africa event at Te Papa from 6 p.m. […]
Wellington artists Tai and Kaaterina Kerekere have just opened their latest exhibition, My Culture Is Not a Trend, at Thistle Hall, on the corner of Cuba and Arthur Streets in New Zealand’s capital city. The couple’s paintings take pride of place, expressing personal aspects of Māoridom, culture, womanhood, family, and identity, relevant not only […]
Home-town favourite, Rakel Blom, scoops top prize at ID International Emerging Designer Awards
Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography Otago Polytechnic graduate Rakel Blom won the ID International Emerging Designer Awards last night in Dunedin, with a collection that tapped into the Zeitgeist of global communities and cross-cultural connections. Blom, who originally hails from Iceland, told Lucire, ‘My biggest passion is travelling,’ and that she had ventured through Asia […]
Javier de Frutos arrives for his Royal New Zealand Ballet première, The Anatomy of a Passing Cloud
Maarten Holl Top Dimitri Kleioris and Antonia Hewitt in The Anatomy of a Passing Cloud. Above Award-winning Venezuelan director and choreographer Javier de Frutos. With the Royal New Zealand Ballet gearing up to three premières this month in Made to Move—Wellington gets the first glimpse of these on February 27—award-winning Venezuelan choreographer Javier de Frutos […]
