Sir Roger Moore, UNICEF ambassador and longest-serving James Bond actor, passes away
UNICEF © Danjaq LLC/United Artists Top: Sir Roger Moore was a UNICEF goodwill ambassador from 1991 to 2017. Above: Moore on the set of Live and Let Die, his first James Bond film, in 1972. Actor and UNICEF ambassador Sir Roger Moore has passed away in Switzerland, aged 89. His children by his third […]
Lamborghini Museum at Sant’Agata Bolognese to host Ayrton Senna exhibition from April 12
The Lamborghini Museum at Sant’Agata Bolognese will host an exhibition honouring the late Formula 1 champion, Ayrton Senna, beginning April 12 and running to October 9, 2017. Ayrton Senna: the Man and the Legend commemorates Senna’s test drive at Estoril in 1993, in a McLaren MP4/8 with a Lamborghini V12 engine. The museum […]
Porsche launches video-based 9:11 Magazine, showcasing current range and history
Porsche has launched a new website, 9:11 Magazine, hosted at a subdomain on its main website, 911-magazine.porsche.com. Unlike most web magazines, it’s predominantly video-based, with each edition focusing on a theme that ties back into the Porsche brand. In addition, the material can be freely taken for journalistic purposes. The website complements Porsche’s […]
Converse celebrates 100 years of the Chuck Taylor All Star with a series of films
Above, from top: The Converse Chuck Taylor All Star. The All Star ’70, evoking the decade of big lapels and platform shoes. The Chuck Taylor All Star II. In black, the lightweight Chuck Taylor All Star Modern. Converse, which began in 1908, has been making the All Star shoe, later the Chuck Taylor shoe, continuously […]
Opinions: what we need from media beyond ‘fake news’; looking to the stars
We need independent media Paul Clarke/CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37435469 Above: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Earlier this month, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote an open letter expressing his concerns about the evolution of his invention, the World Wide Web. (Interestingly, he writes the term all in lowercase.) It wasn’t just […]
Documentary series coinciding with Christian Dior’s 70th anniversary starting February 9 on More4
Top: Maria Grazia Chiuri takes a bow after her first collection. Above: From the archives, Christian Dior himself measuring a model. With Christian Dior celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, with a feature appearing in an upcoming Lucire and an exhibition at the NGV, it’s the perfect time to take a look back at one […]
Mary Tyler Moore’s most famous TV shows altered lives for the better
Jack Yan You’re going to make it after all When visiting Minneapolis many years ago, I photographed the now-famous statue of Mary Tyler Moore doing the “hat toss” from the credits of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. When I asked my colleague Nathalia Archila to write an obituary for Mary Tyler Moore, it reminded me […]
Mary Tyler Moore, ground-breaking actress and diabetes campaigner, dies aged 80
The two Camelots: the Petries’ living room was the hippest fictional place to be in the early 1960s, with Dick van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore as Rob and Laura Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Ed Asner with Moore in the pilot episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show—not the first take. The […]
In brief: Belstaff shows autumn–winter 2017–18; Chanel previews spring ’17 advertising
Belstaff Belstaff has shown its autumn–winter 2017–18 collection in London, for both men and women. The Jolly Roger collection, inspired by World War II Royal Navy uniforms, even has vintage wax treatments on some designs to give them a worn look. Belstaff notes that the pea and duffle coats have been re-created, while the parka […]
Bringing Confucius’ legend to life
Liu Haidong After Asia, Europe and Australia the dance drama, Confucius, lands in New York. The China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG) returned with a marvellous performance at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. The China National Opera and Dance Drama Theatre presented an inspiring feature, directed and choreographed by a 77th-generation descendant […]
