Lucire updates: from new cars to Wonderland, not to mention our downloadable issue
There’s been plenty on the main part of the Lucire website that readers may have missed over the last month. In the ‘Living’ section, publisher Jack Yan has tested the BMW X3 Xdrive20d and, perhaps more down to earth for the majority of our readers, the Renault Mégane 2·0 CVT—well timed as New Zealand readers […]
Harvey Nichols launches Jean Paul Gaultier Coke bottles with models, naked but for body paint
Jean Paul Gaultier’s collaboration with Coca-Cola, shown in Paris on April 13, made its début last week at Harvey Nichols in London. The designer said that the iconic Coca-Cola bottle reminded him of a woman’s figure and it was an obvious notion to try to dress it. The Gaultier-designed bottles for Diet Coke were […]
The enfant terrible comes of age: The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier shows in San Francisco
Elyse Glickman It may seem at first blush like somewhat of a surprise that an ambitious fashion-as-art exhibition starring Jean-Paul Gaultier, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: from the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, is creating a major buzz in San Francisco instead of New York or even Los Angeles. However, given San Francisco is […]
V&A’s Unveiled wedding gown exhibition débuts at Te Papa
Top Gwen Stefani’s wedding dress, by John Galliano. Above Dita von Teese’s wedding dress, by Vivienne Westwood. Experience the world of wedding fashion with 200 years of extraordinary wedding fashion on display at Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, on loan from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. The exhibition, Unveiled, displays everything […]
Antonio Banderas film a triumph, but Cannes overshadowed by von Trier expulsion
Stéphane Kossmann/Renault/Getty Images Any report on the events of the 19th at the Festival de Cannes is overshadowed by the latest news that director Lars von Trier, director of Melancholia, had been expelled, labelled as persona non grata, after pro-Nazi comments. Von Trier has since apologized, but he is out of the running. Without […]
At Cannes: Fan Bing Bing, Sonam Kapoor, Niels Schneider, and Tree of Life
Stéphane Kossmann/Renault/Getty Images Above Sonam Kapoor (in Jean Paul Gaultier) and Fan Bing Bing raise the glamour stakes at the Cannes Film Festival. Celebrities on the red carpet on Sunday included Sonam Kapoor, Vincent Perez, Olivia Ruiz, Michèle Laroque, Fan Bing Bing, Jacques Lang, Michel Hazanavicius and Jean Dujardin. Among our interviewees, brought to […]
Jean Paul Gaultier creates 2011 Piper-Heidsieck bottle, to be revealed at Cannes
Designer Jean Paul Gaultier has created a new design for Piper-Heidsieck’s cuvée brut champagne, to be unveiled at a dinner at the Festival de Cannes on May 13. It is Gaultier’s second collaboration with the champagne house, the first in 1999. The design has been inspired by the can-can. ‘This is the […]
Fashion’s promotion of fur is provocative, in light of the tipping-point
Above Remember this? Supermodel Naomi Campbell (far right) representing in a PETA ad that she would rather go naked than wear fur—a claim that she seems to have reversed on this year. Sofia Hedstrom, in the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet, notes that the use of fur is on the rise. Designers including Jean-Paul Gaultier […]
Jean Paul Gaultier finishes collaboration with Hermès
Hermès has announced in a press release that Jean Paul Gaultier is working on his final collection for the brand. The spring–summer 2011 collection, unveiling this October, ends a seven-year partnership between Gaultier and the Hermès brand. Hermès, however, remains the main shareholder of the Jean Paul Gaultier fashion house, holding 45 per cent. […]
From Hollywood to Sonia Rykiel’s Grand Palais carnival
On the main part of the Lucire site this week are the Sonia Rykiel pour H&M party at the Grand Palais—one which was regarded as the function to attend if you were in Parisian fashion circles. Two thousand guests (including Emmanuelle Béart, Jean Paul Gaultier and Kate Bosworth), a miniature Eiffel Tower, and Lily Cole […]
