Victoria & Albert Museum to host Grace Kelly exhibition
Above Grace Kelly in a publicity shot for Rear Window. The Victoria & Albert Museum will showcase Grace Kelly’s wardrobe with over 50 of her outfits on show, including hats and the original Hermès Kelly bag. Grace Kelly: Style Icon runs from April 17 to September 26 in room 40 of the Museum. Her […]
The Aston Martin V8 Vantage is my car of the decade
Chelfyn Baxter Above The author with the Aston Martin V8 Vantage in 2006. [Cross-posted] Autocar is currently talking about what was the car of the decade. I remember in 1989, the magazine ran a series on the most beautiful cars of each decade, and named the most significant. That decade, the Ford Sierra was the […]
A&E launches The Jacksons: a Family Dynasty in LA
Christopher Polk/Getty Images Top Jackie Jackson and Jermaine Jackson. Above Tito Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Marlon Wayans, Jermaine Jackson and Shawn Wayans. A&E’s bash at Boulevard3 in Los Angeles on Wednesday to launch its new six-episode The Jacksons: a Family Dynasty saw celebrities including Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Tito Jackson, Shawn and Marlon Wayans, […]
David Bailey selling exhibition to open at Bonhams in March
Above Jean Shrimpton, a.k.a. the Shrimp, as photographed by Bailey in British Vogue. A selling exhibition, Pure Sixties, Pure Bailey, of David Bailey’s iconic images of the 1960s will be hosted by Bonhams at 101 New Bond Street from March 7 to April 7, the company announced yesterday. In celebrating the 50th anniversary of […]
Twelve things you might not have known about Lucire
This post has gone online exactly 12 years since Lucire went live on the internet (October 20, 1997, 6 a.m. EST), to commemorate our anniversary. Since those humble beginnings, Lucire has branched out from the web and into international print editions. And rather than go on about our history as we did in editions […]
Vanessa Paradis is new face of Chanel lipstick
Chanel has announced that it will begin a collaboration with singer–actress Vanessa Paradis, as the face of Rouge Coco, a new range of lipsticks from the French firm. Paradis had already represented the Chanel Coco fragrance in 1992 (in a memorable commercial directed by Jean-Paul Goude) and was the muse for Karl Lagerfeld for […]
Fabergé returns, with first high jewellery collection in 90 years
Fabergé has returned. The company best known for its work for various European royal houses has unveiled its first high jewellery collection since 1917, with a starting price of US$30,000 and an average price of US$200,000. A flagship online store can be found at www.faberge.com, with a bricks-and-mortar one in Genève. Clients can select […]
Our good friend Thomaz has been in Ecuador to photograph fashion week there, and we have some shots from the event last month. Meanwhile, we’d like to give Sharyn Steel’s Struggling to Fly a bit of a plug. Sharyn started off as the only woman journalist at a newspaper in 1969, and rose through […]
We have decided to keep the ‘News’ page here on the Lucire site, rather than integrate it with ‘Insider’. It turns out that some of you do use it to get news headlines from around the web, and we can understand that it is helpful: it’s a convenient way to have a glance at what’s […]
Mini shows Coupé Concept for 50th anniversary
On August 26, 1959, the British Motor Corp. released the Mini—or, more accurately, the Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor. The British icon celebrates its 50th anniversary today, and BMW, the current owner of the Mini brand, shows a coupé concept. It’ll be shown in the metal at the IAA—the Frankfurt Motor Show—and there’s a chance […]
