Lucire
The global fashion magazine March 28, 2024 
Out now: Lucire issue 48, with free shipping for UK and US

Labelhood kicks off Shanghai Fashion Week autumn–winter 2021–2 with hit live-streamed show

April 7, 2021/21.34

Labelhood, China’s first fashion incubator combining design and brand management, has presented its first show at the Tank Shanghai complex, opening Shanghai Fashion Week’s autumn–winter 2021–2 Shanghai Fashion and Lifestyle Carnival.    The show was hosted by beauty influencer Li Jiaqi, and streamed on his Taobao channel, which allowed audiences to purchase the items they […]

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Catching our eye: stand-outs at the 2017 ID Emerging Designer Awards

March 26, 2017/11.52

Thirty finalists were selected to showcase their capsule collections at the 2017 ID Emerging Designer Awards’ runway show. Hosted on a crisp autumn evening in the iconic Dunedin Railway Station, the finalists were chosen by a panel of judges from over 150 different entrants, with designers coming from all over the world.    Head judge […]

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Iranian-born Mahshid Mahdian wins Emerging Designers’ Award at ID Dunedin

April 4, 2014/7.59

Chris Sullivan/Seen in Dunedin Mahshid Mahdian, from Brera Academy, Milano, won the ID Dunedin Emerging Designers’ Award and its NZ$10,000 prize on Thursday night.    Mahdian’s collection, Shadow, was inspired by shadows in Burano Island in Venezia, and features geometrical shapes and innovative technologies.    The Tehrān-born designer was encouraged by Mittelmoda’s Stefano Sopelza to […]

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Home-town favourite, Rakel Blom, scoops top prize at ID International Emerging Designer Awards

March 14, 2013/19.41

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 […]

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Australians sweep most of the top prizes at ID Emerging Designers’ Awards 2012

April 1, 2012/9.04

Twenty-eight design graduates from some of the world’s most prestigious fashion schools descended upon Dunedin for the 13th annual ID Emerging Designers’ Awards last Thursday night. Entrants from as far afield as Austria and Israel brought inventive and masterfully constructed pieces, hoping to attract the attention of some of this industry’s top professionals. Events coordinator […]

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Stine Riis wins H&M Design Award 2012, showing at Stockholm Fashion Week

February 1, 2012/21.24

Above Stine Riis, winner of the H&M Design Award. København native Stine Riis, a 28-year-old graduate of the London College of Fashion, has been announced as the winner of the first Hennes & Mauritz Design Award. Her winning collection, called Decadence & Decay, was shown on the catwalk at Stockholm Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week earlier today. […]

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Mercedes-Benz launches C-Klasse coupé in Japan with Fashion Week designers

October 21, 2011/10.54

Mercedes-Benz Japan Above Mercedes-Benz Japan President and CEO, Nicholas Speeks, and Vice President, Kintaro Ueno, at the C-Klasse Coupé launch at Fashion Week. Mercedes-Benz presented its new C-class coupé for the Japanese market on the 17th, at a press event held right after Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week of Tokyo kicked off.    CEO and President of […]

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