Nicole Kidman defends Grace of Monaco on day one of Cannes Film Festival 2014
It was never going to be easy to play someone so beloved, and Nicole Kidman has had to face the critics with her performance of HSH Princess Grace as Grace of Monaco opened the Festival de Cannes. The film is set in the 1960s, just after Grace Kelly wed HSH Prince Rainier II, when […]
Horsing around with Sue Wong for New Year in LA
Elyse Glickman Sue Wong not only has it all, but can certainly share her good fortune with great gusto. She usually opens the Cedars, her 1920s-era Hollywood mansion, to serve as a backdrop for informal fashion shows. However, on this auspicious New Year’s Eve, her home (which itself had many lives, from the home of […]
It was a tie between Gravity and 12 Years a Slave at the 25th annual Producers’ Guild Awards, which now puts Alfonso Cuarón’s space-set drama, starring Sandra Bullock, among the front-runners for the Academy Awards. The films both won the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures—Gravity for Alfonso Cuarón […]
YSL, first of two bio-pics on Yves Saint Laurent, opens today amid controversy
Thibault Grabherr and Anouchka de Williencourt/SND Top Pierre Niney as Yves Saint Laurent and Guillaume Gallienne as Pierre Bergé in YSL. Above Pierre Niney as Yves Saint Laurent and Charlotte Le Bon as Victoire Doutreleau. The first of two bio-pics on fashion design legend Yves Saint Laurent opens today in France. YSL, directed by […]
Original 1960s Karl Lagerfeld sketches for Tiziani to be auctioned
Above Lots 173 and 174: an original Karl Lagerfeld sketch, and the corresponding Tiziani coral gown with feathered cape. Fashion sketchbooks and drawings by Karl Lagerfeld will be auctioned on January 11 by Palm Beach Modern Auctions in West Palm Beach, Fla. The drawings were done for Tiziani, which was set up by American […]
Chinese film pioneer, Sir Run Run Shaw, passes away at age 107
Top Sir Run Run Shaw. Centre On the set of one of the films he produced, Meteor, with Natalie Wood, director Ronald Neame, and Sean Connery. Above Harrison Ford in Blade Runner. Sir Run Run Shaw, the Hong Kong movie mogul and founder of television network TVB, passed away today at age 107. He […]
Grand Prix photography exhibition opens at Getty Images Gallery on February 6
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch Top Michael Schumacher comes to the Mercedes-Benz pits at the Shanghai Grand Prix, April 17, 2011. Centre John Surtees and others do the opening sprint at Le Mans, July 21, 1964. Above Nina Rindt waiting for her husband Jochen to pass by. He had a fatal accident at Parabolica just moments after […]
Nelson Mandela: the last portrait photo shoot
Photographer Adrian Steirn’s film, 21 Icons South Africa, was released in the summer, and featured footage with Nelson Mandela, who passed away Thursday night South African time, aged 95. Mandela was a symbol of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, and was incarcerated by the country’s government for his active opposition to the racist, anti-democratic […]
Ford releases official 2015 Mustang photos and details
’Stangers—diehard fans of the Ford Mustang—will have already seen it due to leaks of the official photographs half a day ago. Lucire ran the leaked photos on our Facebook page. But now, we can officially talk about the unveiling, in six cities around the world—New York, Dearborn, Michigan, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Sydney and Barcelona—of the […]
Supermodel Kate Moss to receive British Fashion Awards honour to mark 25 years of influence
David M. Benett/Getty Images Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott Top Kate Moss, photographed last month celebrating Rimmel’s 180th anniversary. Above A preview image of the supermodel, who will appear in Playboy’s 60th anniversary issue in January. Suzy Menkes isn’t the only woman getting a special award from the British Fashion Council, supermodel Kate Moss will […]
