Oaks Wellington Hotel opens on Courtenay Place, in the heart of New Zealand’s capital
Mauro Risch Photography Jack Yan The Oaks Wellington Hotel, which opened Monday, is located in an ideal spot in the capital city of New Zealand. Ask Wellingtonians which hotels spring to mind, and they’ll often be in the Featherston Street area—ideal for events such as the World of Wearable Art and the waterfront, but […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Hansel & Gretel: a family ballet where creativity fires on all cylinders
Nicola Edmonds Stephen A’Court Garth Badger; make-up by Kiekie Stanners Hansel & Gretel, the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s newest production, answers an important question: what can be made when you have every creative firing on all cylinders? Here we have Loughlan Prior (right) with his first full-length ballet, based on the Grimm Brothers’ collected […]
Re-examining our mission as Lucire turns 22
Some of you may have seen the above montage (reproduced below for those who may be browsing on different devices) in our social media. These are our covers over the last 15 years—we branched out into print seven years after we started. Back then, it was unusual for a website to spawn print editions, and […]
On the pulse of our modern world: travel editor Stanley Moss releases three books
Travel editor Stanley Moss has had his finger on the pulse of the Zeitgeist for a long time. Over the last 15 years, he’s circulated his Global Brand Letter to colleagues, friends and subscribers. In 2004, this was a two-page crib sheet, sent to clients who had asked questions about branding, and, in Stanley’s words, […]
Fashion with feeling: Panos Emporio’s Panos Papadopoulos keeps it real
Panos Papadopoulos There’s a newfound energy at Panos Emporio as we begin 2019, and those following founder Panos Papadopoulos’s Instagram account will have noticed a series of photos taken in the desert in Dubai with a young Colombian woman named Daniela, a fan of the label modelling both Panos Emporio’s swimwear and its perfume range. […]
Crazy Rich Asians delivers a fun romp, beating The Meg in week two
Sanja Bucko From top: Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding and Constance Wu in Crazy Rich Asians. Henry Golding and Constance Wu. Lisa Lu’s Ah Ma character meets Constance Wu’s Rachel Chu. What a pleasure it was to see, finally, Crazy Rich Asians, which opens here next week. It’s already been doing very well in the US, […]
Stoa a deeply thoughtful Choreographic Season from the New Zealand School of Dance
Stephen A’Court Above, from top: The entrance. Jack Jenkins’ Continuity in Disruption, with the second- and third-year contemporary dance students. Nadiyah Akbar in Sebastian Gittings’ Phyllis. The New Zealand School of Dance’s Choreographic Season, which sees its students create their own choreography in collaboration with composer and sound designer Te Aihe Butler, is again a […]
DedCool, the unisex, vegan, cruelty-free fragrance brand, launches in New Zealand
Jack Yan DedCool has launched in New Zealand, and is available now via Mooma. The brainchild of Los Angeles entrepreneur Carina Chazana, the DedCool fragrances are vegan, cruelty-free, and non-toxic. Chazana, whose parents are behind La Natura, had been experimenting with natural beauty products since childhood, creating her first fragrance at 13. Mooma’s […]
For the US and Canada, it’s going to be mainly trucks, SUVs and crossovers at Ford next decade
The F-150 earns Ford a healthy profit, and the company wants more of this happening in the US and Canada In a surprise move, Ford has announced that it will cease selling passenger cars in the US and Canada by the early 2020s, excepting the Mustang and the Focus Active. The announcement was for […]
Video: remembering Buoy’s Derek Elvy
Angela Henderson, retouching by Andrew Edwards As a tribute to Buoy founder Derek Elvy, whose memorial took place at the Pines in Wellington today, Lucire has been granted permission to show these two videos of ‘the king of avant-garde’. Filmed by SIK Productions late in 2017, and presented with their and Buoy’s blessing, they feature […]
