Certain controversial figures in the US raise the question of how they should be covered by a responsible press. Is it a fashion magazine’s role to decide? Jack Yan asks […]
Controversial figures show up at events, too
December 17, 2023/11.45
Tag: journalism
A tribute to Hilary Alexander, 1946–2023
February 10, 2023/4.19
Carolyn Enting pays tribute to New Zealand-born journalist and former Daily Telegraph fashion director Hilary Alexander, OBE, who passed away on her 77th birthday on February 5 […]
European Human Rights’ Commissioner urges UK Home Secretary not to extradite Julian Assange
May 18, 2022/10.52
Above: Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, has written a letter to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel not to extradite Julian Assange. The Assange case appears to have met with a blackout from many quarters of the mainstream media. In her […]
Instagram won’t replace the fashion magazine
January 31, 2020/12.14
Lindsay Adler Above: The cover from Lucire KSA, January 2020, modelled by Camille Hyde with fur by House of Fluff. Photographed by Lindsay Adler Photography, styled by Cannon/the Only Agency, hair by Linh Nguyen, and make-up by Joanne Gair using Danessa Myricks Beauty. A few weeks ago, I got out of the habit of Instagramming. […]
Brother Vellies and others: your input needed
November 1, 2017/23.07
There’s a particular kind of new investigative method, born of an era of fake truth, alternative facts, fake news and fake-everything-else. It’s called citizen journalism: real people not always of the Fourth Estate are asked to provide first-hand testimony on a story reported. Lucire is interested in your stories about businesses who claim to uphold […]
When corporate brands and personal brands trade places: Kate Moss was there before Kendall Jenner
October 14, 2017/13.46
Above: Brand Kate Moss was probably seen by more people when the model collaborated with Topshop. In 1999, the late Wally Olins, the famous brand consultant, sent me his book, Trading Identities: Why Countries and Companies are Taking on Each Other’s Roles, a fine read published by the Foreign Policy Centre that argued that countries […]
Opinions: what we need from media beyond ‘fake news’; looking to the stars
March 15, 2017/21.47
We need independent media Paul Clarke/CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37435469 Above: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Earlier this month, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote an open letter expressing his concerns about the evolution of his invention, the World Wide Web. (Interestingly, he writes the term all in lowercase.) It wasn’t just […]
Paris shows solidarity in Sunday’s March for Unity
January 12, 2015/5.08
Lola Cristall The March for Unity that took place today in Paris was announced as the largest demonstration in the history of France, with an estimated 1·5 million to 2 million on the capital’s streets. The interior ministry believes that there had not been so many since the liberation of Paris in August 1944. A […]
Award-winning writer Carolyn Enting débuts first novel, The Medallion of Auratus
March 2, 2014/19.30
Award-winning writer Carolyn Enting (left)—whose work has graced our pages—has published her first novel, a labour of love called The Medallion of Auratus, now available at Amazon. Years in the making, Enting’s children’s book takes the reader on an other-worldly journey, already acclaimed by Meg Matthews of the Brancott Estate World of Wearable Art […]
Suzy Menkes to be honoured at 2013 British Fashion Awards
November 28, 2013/11.52
Julien Hekimian Suzy Menkes, OBE will receive the British Fashion Council’s (BFC) Special Recognition Award this year, for her 25-year-long career at the International Herald–Tribune. Menkes has been style editor for the newspaper, now rebranded as the International New York Times, since 1988, and is hugely respected by her peers and the fashion industry. […]
