The Firebird a triumph for the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Loughlin Prior
Stephen A’Court Every element came together for the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s The Firebird Loughlan Prior’s The Firebird is a triumph for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, one that raises Prior’s own high standards, perfectly suited to the strengths of the company and its regular collaborators. Its première at the Opera House in Wellington […]
Piki Poma creates sustainable fashion made from innovative recycled fibre
Sisters Mirna Litović and Ida Babić have created their sustainable label, Piki Poma, with a skirt, two dresses and a scarf made from Repreve, a 100 per cent recycled fibre made from transformed PET plastic bottles. The Baal skirt, Fabela slip-on dress, Tago tunic–dress and Momi scarf have a textured, crushed, and pleated appearance. […]
Miss France 2021, Amandine Petit, goes electric blue with her Peugeot e-208
Miss France 2021, Amandine Petit, has taken delivery of a Peugeot e-208 GT from the company’s dealership in Caen in Normandie, with Victor Mary, marketing director of the Mary group, handing her the keys. Petit has chosen a blue e-208, the all-electric B-segment hatchback from the French car maker. Since its launch in […]
Made out of What?!: a digital magazine considers sustainability and style
How to merge sustainable vision and fashion? A tough call, and many are still rushing at the answer. A few years ago the American art visionary Denise Domergue established a not-for-profit to engage the first half of that question in the context of art. The Made Out of What?! initiative has mounted exhibitions, sponsored […]
Protest Sportswear releases fourth Green Up challenge: cleaning up Costa Rica
Protest Sportswear is walking the talk with two surfers—Alazne Aurrekoetxea and Laura Coviella—heading to Costa Rica to help clean up the shores as part of their Green Up the Ocean project. They helped with the efforts to collect single-use bottles, and tied them together with some bamboo and turned them into a “green” board. […]
Karnit Aharoni shows off latest designs for spring–summer 2021
Greg Alexander/Méphistopheles New Zealand- and UK-educated, France-based Karnit Aharoni, profiled earlier in Lucire, has shown new entries for spring–summer 2021, inspired by her grandmother and the photographs of her from the 1930s. Aharoni has chosen to combine the 1930s inspiration with the wild west, on the basis that we currently live in times of change […]
Pressology launches beauty range with Ayurvedic principles
Pressology, founded in San Francisco by cell and molecular biologist Sally Nasser, is a conscious plant-based Ayurveda beauty brand using USDA-certified organic formulations to heal and enhance the skin. Ingredients include Moringa oil, lentils, turmeric and jasmine, and the products are all made in San Francisco by strong women of colour. Nasser has a […]
Institute of Positive Fashion Forum aims to make real change for sustainable development
The Institute of Positive Fashion Forum will take place digitally on June 10, and runs from 9 a.m. to a final event with Stella McCartney commencing at 6.10 p.m. The thought leadership event is designed to galvanize the fashion industry—one of the planet’s major contributors to environmental harm—into action, ahead of COP26. Tickets […]
Nomos Glashütte scores product design win at Green Good Design Awards
The Chicago Athenæum’s Good Design Awards have honoured Germany’s Nomos Glashütte six times for its watches, and now the Green Good Design Awards, which focus on sustainably produced products, have highlighted the company once more for its Tangente Update watch in its product design category. Its latest incarnation, the Tangente Neomatik 41 Update, features […]
Monokel Eyewear introduces biodegradable sunglasses
Stockholm archipelago-based Monokel Eyewear has always made sunglasses that last, but its latest collection ensures that they do—only up to a point. Its spring–summer 2021 collection, anchored on the Edvard Munch quotation, ‘From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity,’ is fully bio-based and biodegradable, with […]
