Goodness and Noa Noa welcome the winter blues
Nikita Brown Photography When the scene gets quiet, you can always trust our own fashion and beauty editor, Sopheak Seng, to helm a show to get things buzzing again. In collaboration with Goodness, which was the first out of the gate at a two-label show at Caffè l’Affaré last Thursday, Wellington fashionistas and guests escaped […]
Taormina Film Fest opens, with Claudia Cardinale, Margareth Madè, Raoul Bova
Tullio M. Puglia Valerio Pennicino The 60th Taormina Film Fest has started in the picturesque Sicilian town, with Maserati as a sponsor, and Claudia Cardinale, Margareth Madè and Raoul Bova among the red-carpet arrivals that we’ve spotted. Cardinale arrived for the screening of Manoel de Oliveira’s Gebo et l’ombre, in which she stars. Other […]
Lucire’s Instagram round-up, June 6: Natalia Vodianova nude to Lupita Nyong’o’s nails
Model Natalia Vodianova made headlines with her Instagram this week, showing off a nude image with her breastfeeding son, photographed by Paolo Roversi. The photograph was dedicated to her husband, Antoine Arnault, for his birthday. It was later revealed by Vodianova on her Instagram that the photographer was Roversi, who ‘was one of the […]
Fiat 500 goes 1970s-trendy with Colour Therapy range
When we saw some of the publicity pictures of cars these past few years, we knew the 1970s were threatening to come back: bright greens at Ford, oranges at Subaru among them, as evidenced at Autocade. Fiat has been more explicit with its fashionable 500. The retro-chic car, which was inspired by the 500 […]
Five fashionable filmmakers craft Fiat 500 by Gucci flicks
On Monday, Fiat and Gucci presented five short films promoting the Fiat 500 by Gucci model, which launched in 2011. The latest incarnation of the Cinquecento was launched in 2007 and has since gone on to be Fiat’s hero model. In some countries, it’s the only Fiat on sale. The films appear to […]
Fiat shows Gucci edition of 500; Jaguar commemorates E-type anniversary with official book
To commemorate Gucci’s 90th birthday, Fiat has unveiled the 500 by Gucci on the first day of Moda di Milano. The car will also be shown at the Salon de Genève from March 3 to 13, in a dedicated Gucci pop-up store. In other motoring- and anniversary-related news, Jaguar has commissioned a book […]
Abarth adds 500C and Punto Evo to range
Fiat continues to push Abarth as a marque, as it once was, with performance models of its 500C—the pretty convertible that Elle Macpherson launched last year—and Punto Evo. The Abarth Punto Evo is a more straightforward hot hatch, a development of the earlier Grande Punto, which is aimed at the Ford Fiesta class and […]
Alfa Romeo Giulietta débuts today
Alfa Romeo’s new Giulietta, which was shown at the Salon de Genève in March, débuts today (April 13). The car will steadily be launched throughout Europe in May. In some ways, the new Giulietta, which replaces the 147, takes the design language begun with the 8C Competizione and MiTo (Lucire’s Car to Be Seen […]
Fiat Punto Evo includes methane, LPG variants
Fiat has launched a revised version of its Grande Punto supermini, now called the Punto Evo. The good news: the MultiAir engines, which include diesel units, are better for the environment. Never mind all the infotainment equipment in the new model; Fiat also launches a methane engine as well as an LPG one. (While Kiwi […]
An improved Alfa Romeo MiTo, Lucire’s Car to Be Seen in
Lucire’s Car to Be Seen in for 2009, the Alfa Romeo MiTo, now has a MultiAir version, which means more power (105, 135 and 170 hp) and torque but, more crucially for our readers, reduced (by 10 per cent) carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas oxide emissions. It’s even more of a reason for us to […]
