Lucire
The global fashion magazine May 15, 2024 
Out now: Lucire issue 48, with free shipping for UK and US

A tribute to our friend, George Bowler

February 17, 2023/23.00

A tribute to our friend George Bowler, a Victoria University and Grasse Institute of Perfumery alum, and a supporter of our magazine since the early days. Jack Yan looks back […]

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Thoughts on 9-11, ten years on

September 11, 2011/12.40

Every September 11, I feel compelled to write an editorial about that September 11. New York Fashion Week was on, just as it is now, and I was back at HQ in New Zealand, mere weeks after being in NYC myself.    Seventeen hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time, our September 11, 2001 passed uneventfully. […]

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Honouring 9-11

September 11, 2009/14.07

I don’t think we could let September 11, 2009 pass without marking what had happened in the United States eight years ago. As with this year, the day fell during New York Fashion Week, and as the publisher I had a few things to contend with.    I had returned to Wellington from Manhattan only […]

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