Australians sweep most of the top prizes at ID Emerging Designers’ Awards 2012
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 […]
Madonna’s Truth or Dare fragrance commercial film revealed
Last November, we revealed that Madonna would release a Truth or Dare fragrance, and now the promotional video has come out on the eve of its April launch. The advertisement shows the 53-year-old singer before a soft-focus lens, wearing lingerie, reminiscent of some of her earlier videos. As with her coffee-table book Sex, […]
If you believe the publicity, The Hunger Games is poised to be the next teen sensation. The first in four films adapted from the popular novel, an artistic relationship between Hollywood stylist Cherry Petenbrink and Joico to establish the film’s look has begun. Petenbrink says she wanted the look to be ‘trend-setting and visionary, […]
Video: Meryl Streep, Jean Dujardin, and The Artist are the big winners at 2012 Oscars
Jeff Kravitz/Wireimage Pascal Le Segretain/Wireimage Top Meryl Streep and Jean Dujardin, Best Actress and Best Actor in the press room at the 84th Academy Awards. Above Jean Dujardin wearing the Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox. In our Oscar footage from last night, we first have Meryl Streep’s acceptance speech, for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron […]
Getting the Huffer autumn–winter 2012 hair look
Huffer’s autumn–winter 2012 collection revisited the glory days of communist Russia. Hair director Greg Murrell of Ryder for KMS California created a look at New Zealand Fashion Week that truly embodied the collection. While staying true to the label’s ‘heritage of functionality’, the collection referred to the military style in an earthy palette of […]
Stolen Girlfriends’ Club and KMS California create fun, edgy hairstyles
Described as a ‘motley crew of surfers done good’, New Zealand designers Marc Moore, Luke Harwood and Dan Gosling of Stolen Girlfriends’ Club (SGC) have garnered a cult following in the country. Their latest creations, compiled to create the autumn–winter 2012 collection, Here Lies the Bones, is a balance of free-spirited energy with a darker […]
Getting Stolen Girlfriends’ Club’s hairstyles: Greg Murrell and KMS’s tips
While we’re preparing our report from Rosemount Australian Fashion Week in Sydney, our friends from Stolen Girlfriends’ Club and KMS have shared with us behind-the-scenes hair images and a how-to. Greg Murrell of Ryder directed the hair for Marc Moore, Luke Harwood and Dan Gosling’s latest collection, The Big Comedown. Stolen Girlfriends’ Club […]
Getting Glee glamour hair with KMS California’s Clive Allwright
In our newest video, Clive Allwright, international creative director of KMS California, demonstrates how one can get a bouncy, glamorous look with shape and volume—what he calls ‘Glee glamour’. Allwright uses KMS California Flat Out Hot Pressed Spray to protect the hair, a curling iron, and KMS California’s medium-hold hairspray and Hairplay Clay Creme. […]
Rodney Wayne client wins trip for two to New York Fashion Week
Above Julie Evans, General Manager, Operations, for Rodney Wayne, competition winner Wendy Bunce, and Rodney Wayne Creative Director Richard Kavanagh. Rodney Wayne client Wendy Bunce has won a trip for two to New York for Fashion Week, the salon chain has announced. Top stylist Richard Kavanagh, who has been profiled in Lucire, is now […]
Servilles’ Armie Aninion Avillanosa is L’Oréal Colour Trophy winner for New Zealand
Above Armie Aninion Avillanosa of Servilles Takapuna with her model, showing her winning look. Armie Aninion Avillanosa from Servilles, Takapuna in Auckland is the winner of the Supreme Award at last night’s L’Oréal Colour Trophy ceremony in Auckland, held at Sky City. Avillanosa wins a $10,000 trip for two to London and Paris to […]
