Musical magic from the tip of the baton: Lola Cristall attends a memorable performance at the David Geffen Hall in New York. […]
Yuja Wang performs her magic at the David Geffen Hall
January 23, 2023/3.45
Tag: Finland
Sweden’s king of swimwear, Panos Papadopoulos, reveals all in his new autobiography
May 16, 2022/5.45
Toward the end of next week, Panos Papadopoulos’s autobiography, Panos: My Life, My Odyssey, comes out in London, with an event in Stockholm following. This is an intimate memoir about Panos’s rise, from childhood poverty in Greece to the ‘king of swimwear’ in Scandinavia. Not only do I have an advance copy, I collaborated […]
Technically, a big change behind the scenes
February 7, 2022/9.52
You may be wondering why there have been few updates from Lucire over the past week. It’s not because we’re observing the lunar New Year holiday, but because during January, we were hacked by two parties. One we traced to Los Angeles, California, but the other’s IP address wasn’t as clear. We had planned […]
No Time to Die a fine send-off for Daniel Craig as James Bond
October 7, 2021/8.31
Eon Productions LLC/MGM Header image: Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) and James Bond (Daniel Craig) have their holiday plans upset. Above, from top: Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time to Die. The Aston Martin V8 from The Living Daylights makes a return. James Bond (Daniel Craig) and Cuban agent Paloma (Ana de Armas) prepare […]
Pininfarina at 90: creating the future with connectivity, data and AI
May 15, 2020/11.54
No doubt many of us have been forced into virtual environments with COVID-19, for those lucky enough to have benefited from the technological innovations of the last several decades. And companies like Pininfarina, the design house that has penned some of history’s greatest Ferrari cars, as well as more humble fare from mass-market manufacturers, recognize […]
January 5, 2020/13.02
Above, from top: Brian Cox, nominated for Succession. Mike Moh, nominated for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. London Brown (Ballers). Craig DiFrancia, nominated for Martin Scorsese’s Green Book. Before the ink dried on our list of New Year’s resolutions, we made our way to the Secret Room Red Carpet Style Lounge in honour of […]
July 26, 2017/2.14
At 300,000 ft², 1,278 exhibitors and more than 36,000 attendees, Cosmoprof North America continues its reign as the world’s leading beauty industry symposium and market-place. Every facet of the beauty industry was gorgeously represented at the plush and cool Mandalay Bay Convention Center, making attendees almost forget the unrelenting Las Vegas heat. It was a […]
Kate Upton on three covers for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2017, photographed by Yu Tsai
February 15, 2017/10.49
Yu Tsai/Sports Illustrated Above: Each of Yu Tsai’s covers for the 2017 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, on sale now in the US. As with 2016, Sports Illustrated has gone with three covers for its annual Swimsuit Issue—except this time, all three covers are of one model, Kate Upton. All three were shot in Fiji by […]
Lindex will open London store for spring 2015
August 20, 2014/13.45
Above An image from Lindex’s autumn 2014 campaign. Lindex, the Swedish brand now part of the Finnish Stockmann group, will open a store in London in spring 2015. The company has been gradually raising its profile over the last few years, including hiring actress Penélope Cruz to model one of its collections. This […]
Penélope Cruz models third part of Lindex’s summer 2013 campaign
May 13, 2013/8.24
Swedish brand Lindex, owned by the Stockmann group in Finland, has launched the last part of its summer 2013 campaign, starring Penélope Cruz. The first part, which broke on April 15, saw Cruz in Hollywood mode, playing on her Oscar-winning persona. The second part of the campaign, announced at the end of April, had […]
