Lucire
The global fashion magazine May 10, 2024 
Out now: Lucire issue 48, with free shipping for UK and US

The suite-est of all

March 5, 2018/16.48

The invitations for Celebrity Connected’s Oscar weekend bash at the Taglyan were not printed on golden tickets, but they may as well have been.    Everywhere you looked, there were delicious sweets, from hand-crafted waffle confections made on site to gorgeously packaged chocolates and cookies brought in from as far away as Kuwait (Monkey Cookies) […]

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Kate Moss and Rimmel celebrate 15 years with new lipstick and nail polish collection launched in London

June 22, 2016/17.02

David M. Benett Kate Moss and Rimmel London have released their latest collaboration celebrating the supermodel’s 15-year relationship with the beauty brand.    The Kate Moss Rimmel 15th Anniversary Collection comprises Moss’s favourite nude and red lip and nail shades.    Journalists, bloggers and other guests were invited to a London house where Moss modelled […]

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LA beauty: Milani Cosmetics and Orly showcase new releases and custom shades

June 8, 2016/12.20

Top: Milano Cosmetics’ event for LA media. Above: Orly’s “mixologists” create custom colours at Olive & June in Beverly Hills. Below right: The author at the Milani event. Earlier this year, Mattel released a new line of Barbie dolls with real-world bodies and skin tones. Düsseldorf firm Doob-3D (with stores in New York, LA and […]

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Burt’s Bees and Pink Tartan launch limited-edition T-shirt to help save the bees in Canada

May 5, 2016/13.06

Burt’s Bees Canada and Kimberley Newport-Mimran of Pink Tartan have teamed up to create a limited-edition T-shirt for Burt’s Bees’ fifth Wild for Bees campaign.    The latest campaign (hashtagged #PinkTartanXBurtsBees and #beechic) sees Burt’s Bees and Wildlife Preservation Canada plant 10,000 wildflowers to support bee health and sustainability for each Pink Tartan × Burt’s […]

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The Body Shop has beauty gift ideas all wrapped up

March 22, 2012/10.51

The Body Shop says it will reveal some big news tonight in central London, saying that ‘the forthcoming revelations are set to get media buzzing about a whole new way of looking at beauty.’ The company says it will be a world first.    We haven’t speculated on what that big news might be, but […]

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MAC collaborates with photographer Chen Man on make-up range

March 13, 2012/0.30

Showing that fashion and beauty are moving eastward, MAC Cosmetics has teamed up with Beijing photographer Chen Man (陳曼), best known for her work for Shanghai’s avant-garde fashion magazine Vision.    MAC calls the Chenman range, subtitled Love & Water, a ‘bold, sensual and lyrical colour collection’, based around her fascination for love and water, […]

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Get lips worthy of worship with Napoleon’s Better off Red collection

July 18, 2011/11.42

Channel your inner siren and embrace brash, bold red lips. For many of us who can’t work a red lip, this sounds worrying, but make-up guru Napoleon Perdis has come to our rescue with his revolutionary Better off Red collection. He says that ‘wearing a red lip is the fastest way to upgrade your image; […]

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