Dove encourages women to see themselves as beautiful with new campaign; summit session announced
Dove wants to change the way women think about themselves with its new campaign, called Choose Beautiful. According to its 2010 research, 96 per cent of women do not choose the word beautiful to describe how they look. Its new five-minute film, shot in San Francisco, Shanghai, New Delhi, London and São Paulo, encourages women […]
Paula Sweet When the sun disappears from the sky on the rare winter afternoon in the Indian province of Goa, intrepid tourists flee the legendary beaches for a day trip to the old port city of Panjim. Set on the delta of the river Panjovi, it’s a great place to explore colonial neighborhoods where classic […]
Lucire readers can get a special offer at both Shanti Home (New Delhi) and Shanti Morada (Goa, pictured above) for all months from April to September 2015. Mention Lucire and get a free one-hour massage at either property. We are saddened to learn that GM Olivia Richli has left her post at Aman Canal […]
Igor Spektor Above Amy Malin gives her powerful speech on being a survivor of rape, assault and torture; actor Corey Feldman looks on. Amy Malin, AnnaLynne McCord, Corey Feldman, all of whom have suffered serious sexual assaults, joined Rani Hong, a survivor of slavery and child trafficking, at an event on Friday in Los Angeles, […]
Destination datelines: Catalina, Paris, Gurgaon, Punta Ala
©1964 Bettmann/Corbis ©1966 Hulton–Deutsch/Corbis Top The Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night, 1964. Above George Harrison marries Pattie Boyd in 1966. Catalina Island, California Hard to believe it’s been a half-century since the première of A Hard Day’s Night. To commemorate the date, the Catalina Island Museum will mount a special 50th anniversary screening of […]
Iranian-born Mahshid Mahdian wins Emerging Designers’ Award at ID Dunedin
Chris Sullivan/Seen in Dunedin Mahshid Mahdian, from Brera Academy, Milano, won the ID Dunedin Emerging Designers’ Award and its NZ$10,000 prize on Thursday night. Mahdian’s collection, Shadow, was inspired by shadows in Burano Island in Venezia, and features geometrical shapes and innovative technologies. The Tehrān-born designer was encouraged by Mittelmoda’s Stefano Sopelza to […]
British Airways celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema with Bollywood film event
British Airways’ film extravaganza, Silent Picturehouse, celebrated the centenary of Indian cinema in Mumbai last week, with Arjun Rampal, Malaika Arora Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Arjun Kapoor, Mandira Bedi, Chitrangda Singh, Minissha Lamba, and Sophie Choudry among the red-carpet VIPs. The event, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai, had Bollywood screenings in three cinemas […]
Lucire travel editor Stanley Moss releases Supari, with companion screenplay
Lucire travel editor Stanley Moss was robbed on a train in India in 2008. This week he’s released a novella, a spinoff fantasy of what might have occurred after the theft, available as an on-demand paperback, and ebook. It’s called Supari, and was written after the event, while Moss waited for an exit visa, mired […]
Wellington’s bright spots for the cognoscenti: Dollybird and Behome
Jack Yan Above Items from Behome, previewed to Lucire in 2012 and officially open now in Miramar, Wellington. Wellington has two businesses that those in the know have to check out. Back in April, Lucire attended the launch of Dollybird (at 11 Hunter Street, one block down from the Old Bank Arcade; www.dollybird.co.nz). Prashila […]
Updated with video on May 23, 2013, at 2.14 p.m. GMT Ian Gavan/Wireimage/Getty Images The Coen Brothers’ latest film, Inside Llewyn Davies, had its Cannes Film Festival première on Sunday. The film is set in the 1960s’ Greenwich Village folk music scene, with Oscar Isaac in the title role. Carey Mulligan plays his love […]
