There goes 20 years. Normally when we celebrate a birthday, we do what most magazines do: there’s a story on our founding, some of our best covers, and a nod to the past. I’ll be right up front: despite having thoughts of doing all of that, we haven’t planned anything for this particular day, October […]
Obituary: Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, 91, dies
Copyright ©2010 by Glenn Francis, www.pacificprodigital.com Above: Hefner photographed in 2010. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has died at his home, aged 91, according to Playboy Enterprises, Inc., from natural causes. Hugh Marston Hefner was born in Chicago in 1926. He worked as a cartoonist on a US Army newspaper in the 1940s, and graduated […]
Pierre Bergé, former partner of Yves Saint Laurent, dies at 86
Luc Castel Pierre Bergé, photographed at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, 2017. Pierre Bergé, best known as the power behind the Yves Saint Laurent label, died in his sleep at his home in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France on Friday at 5.39 a.m., aged 86. Bergé had died from myopathy, a muscular disorder, according to the […]
Kate Upton on three covers for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2017, photographed by Yu Tsai
Yu Tsai/Sports Illustrated Above: Each of Yu Tsai’s covers for the 2017 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, on sale now in the US. As with 2016, Sports Illustrated has gone with three covers for its annual Swimsuit Issue—except this time, all three covers are of one model, Kate Upton. All three were shot in Fiji by […]
Ashley Graham releases limited-edition swimwear line for Swimsuits for All
Model Ashley Graham has launched a limited-edition swimwear collection, Ashley Graham × Swimsuits for All, that celebrates ‘every body, every age, every beautiful’. Graham, who modelled one of the three covers in last year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, sees her new collection make its first promotional appearance in the 2017 number this week. The […]
Special features to kick off Lucire’s 20th anniversary year
Paula Sweet Above: Stanley Moss heads to Punta Ala in one of his best travel pieces to date. Click here to read it. Welcome to Lucire’s 20th anniversary year. Remember that if you don’t see a news update (which will come with an RSS update), you can go to the main part of the […]
Gigi Hadid’s in the Zeitgeist: a Vogue spread, and her make-up artist spills her tips
Gigi Hadid’s in the Zeitgeist right now: not only has she appeared in a spread in Vogue with boyfriend Zayn Malik—himself rustling up plenty of headlines in the music world with his solo career—her make-up artist, Julianne Kaye, who currently has the reputation for being behind the beauty for today’s “it girls”, has been spreading […]
Gisela Schober Gala magazine in Germany celebrated its 20th anniversary Spa Awards at the Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa in Baden-Baden, awarding the best names in the cosmetics and hotel industries. Supermodel Naomi Campbell was named Beauty Idol of the Year, with the judges citing her various careers in modelling, acting and authoring, and her […]
It’s farewell to nudes as Playboy unveils revamped March ’16 issue; Sarah McDaniel on cover
Snapchat and Instagram personality Sarah McDaniel graces the cover of the first non-nude issue of Playboy, its March 2016 number, to hit newsstands on February 12. The eagerly anticipated revamped magazine, which had been following a similar formula for 62 years, will be unveiled on February 5 at Playboy’s annual party during Super Bowl […]
Classic and Sports Car—the London Show to celebrate Aston Martin with seven landmark models
Aston Martin might not have the freshest range out there as it readies its next generation of supercars, but its marketing machine is at the top of its game this quarter, with a celebration at Classic & Sports Car—the London Show from October 30 to November 1 at Alexandra Palace—days after its bespoke DB10 gets […]
