The occident is politically divided, and we even create bogeymen—none of which is helping dialogue or lowering temperatures, writes Jack Yan […]
A history of embracing freedom of thought
September 18, 2025/5.18
Tag: media
Chloé Malle succeeds Dame Anna Wintour, appointed Vogue’s head of editorial content
September 2, 2025/14.33
Her mother, Candice Bergen, once played the editor-in-chief of Vogue on TV. Now the editor of Vogue.com is promoted into the equivalent real-life role at the magazine […]
Bold documentary series Cutting the Curve explores the backlash against body positivity
August 25, 2025/3.29
A new documentary series peels back the glamour to uncover the tokenism behind body positivity, and the current backlash faced by the movement, along with the effects it has on the people in the industry […]
July 14, 2025/11.12
Should fashion magazines try to be escapist, or should we confront some of society’s big issues? Jack Yan looks at where we’re at in the mid-2020s […]
Dame Anna Wintour steps down as Vogue editor-in-chief
June 26, 2025/19.26
The move is part of a wider restructuring that has already been rolled out to other markets in which Condé Nast operates. Dame Anna stays on in two senior global roles […]
Chanel dresses Halle Berry, Constance Tsang and Alba Rohrwacher at Festival de Cannes, day 1
May 14, 2025/4.02
Chanel cements its relationship to cinema on the first day of the Cannes Film Festival; Mylène Farmer performed a new song; while Quentin Tarantino opened the festival with a mic drop […]
Panos Papadopoulos plans a fashion comeback, with swimwear and clothing on the cards
January 8, 2025/10.25
You can’t keep a great designer from designing, as Panos Papadopoulos aims to return to fashion, and bring back the passion and great fits to swimwear […]
Two decades in print, 27 years online
October 17, 2024/9.48
Jack Yan looks at the events that led up to Lucire first appearing in print for retail sale, this month, 20 years ago […]
The traditional celebrity is still with us, with legacy media playing a bigger role
August 20, 2024/12.17
The celebrity is far from dead, not supplanted by influencers—in part because the World Wide Web has been plagued with bots, and Google has failed to stem their tide, writes Jack Yan […]
To our Sunday colleagues, you should still be on air
May 13, 2024/1.14
The final episode of Sunday has aired in New Zealand—a current affairs show that should, even if you follow the money, remain, says Jack Yan […]
