H&M celebrates 10 years of designer collaborations with new book launching November 6
Time has flown: it has been 10 years since Hennes & Mauritz began its designer collaborations, the first with Karl Lagerfeld. The company will release a book, The First Ten Years, coinciding with its Alexander Wang x H&M launch on November 6. At the time, Lucire called it a move toward ‘attainable luxury’: […]
Behind the Lucire 2014 redesign, and a features’ round-up
Surface Too Deep Top A promotional image from Surface Too Deep. The model on the left is reading Lucire. It’s a better photo than we could have come up with to promote ourselves. Above Lucire’s new look for the web edition’s news pages for 2014. You may have noticed we’ve continued to do some housekeeping […]
Preen by Thornton Bregazzi Some regular readers may have noticed that we have slightly fewer articles than usual—behind the scenes, Nigel Dunn at Xplosiv.ly is working hard shifting content from our old server to a new one. So while things are going on there, today’s entry is a brief one in terms of words, […]
London Fashion Week spring–summer 2013, day three: the celebrity favourites
Lucire has videos from Christopher Raeburn, Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, Margaret Howell, Sophia Webster, Moschino Cheap & Chic, Nicole Farhi, Lucas Nascimento, J. J. S. Lee, Vivienne Westwood, Marios Schwab, Matthew Williamson, Temperley London, Unique, Paul Smith, Mary Katrantzou, Acne, Jonathan Saunders and Philip Treacy, as well as a day three highlight reel, as part […]
Earlier this week, the British Fashion Council, in association with Harper’s Bazaar UK and Selfridges, hosted Britain Creates 2012: Fashion & Art Collusion, celebrating the year in which London hosts the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Britain Creates brings together fashion and contemporary visual art, showcasing collaborations between luminaries such as Matthew Williamson and Mat […]
Video: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend African Cats red carpet première
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, about to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, attended a red-carpet screening of African Cats at the BFI Southbank in London yesterday. The screening of the documentary raised funds for conservation charity, Tusk Trust, of which Prince William is patron. The Duchess wore a grey Matthew Williamson dress. […]
London Fashion Week autumn–winter 2012–13: day 3 catwalk
If you haven’t been catching Lucire’s London Fashion Week coverage on our streaming live player, here’s a run-down of day three, with videos from Mulberry, Craig Lawrence, Nicole Farhi, Twenty8Twelve, Marios Schwab, Vivienne Westwood Red Label, Topshop Unique, Paul Smith, Louise Gray, Matthew Williamson, Jonathan Saunders, J. W. Anderson and Acne. Mulberry was, as […]
London Fashion Week spring–summer 2012: celebrity-watching on day three
Day three was a day of celebrity-watching at London Fashion Week. Anna Wintour showed up at Nicole Farhi (who is interviewed below) and at Unique. Naomi Campbell, Ellie Goulding, Kelis, and Nicola Roberts also attended the latter. Goulding and Erin O’Connor appeared at Marios Schwab. Kate Moss, Eliza Doolittle, Olivia Palermo, and Kristen Stewart turned […]
Connect the World talks to Matthew Williamson
Courtesy of CNN, the video below features Max Foster talking to Matthew Williamson, arguably one of the most profiled designers at London Fashion Week this season. (Betty Jackson, Erin O’Connor and Christopher Bailey are slated for the next instalments.) You can see earlier videos from Williamson’s catwalk show here, and interviews with him and […]
Kate Bosworth, Mario Testino and other celebrities arrive at Burberry
Burberry Prorsum’s autumn–winter 2011–12 spectacle at Hyde Park saw celebrities such as Kate Bosworth and Rachel Bilson attend, while ITN gets a quotation from model Douglas Booth on the Britishness of the label. Photographer Mario Testino, meanwhile, gives a brief comment about HRH Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton, saying that they are […]
