Founder and publisher Jack Yan with a summary of recent events, beginning with Lucire’s surprise appearance on a top-50 fashion magazines’ list […]
Publisher’s diary: Feedspot’s top 50, computers in cars, and a new mayor
October 12, 2022/0.59
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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 […]
SMoss’s Great Again charts the course of the Trump presidency
April 11, 2021/2.08
Lucire travel editor Stanley Moss, writing as SMoss, has put together a limited edition volume documenting the presidency of Donald J. Trump, available in both a hardcover collectors’ edition and a smaller paperback. Entitled Great Again, the book begins with a cover showing a worn ‘Make America Great Again’ cap discarded on the […]
Where have the fun fashion magazine websites gone?
February 6, 2021/21.45
Above: The very first site (alphabetically) linked from our Newsstand pages, Annabelle of Switzerland, complete with large lead image and smaller subsidiary ones. I took a look at Lucire’s Newsstand reviews tonight. This section is a relic of the early dot-com days that Lucire came from (in the 1990s), when people exchanged links with […]
Naersi closes China Fashion Week with Water Cube spectacular
November 3, 2020/9.38
EEKA Fashion Holdings’ brand Naersi closed China Fashion Week with its spring–summer 2021 25°Lan show at Beijing’s Water Cube, the National Aquatics’ Centre. The show also marked the brand’s 25th anniversary, and was attended by celebrities, fashion editors, and the industry’s movers and shakers. In another sign of China’s post-COVID-19 rebound, the show featured […]
YOOX and Vogue Italia launch sustainable, responsible fashion programme with €50,000 top prize
February 23, 2020/1.09
Jacopo M. Raule YOOX and Vogue Italia celebrated the launch of their mentoring programme, the Vogue YOOX Challenge—the Future of Responsible Fashion, at the San Paolo Converso church in Milano yesterday, during the city’s fashion week. The programme aims to support and mentor designers, creatives and start-ups who are investing in social responsibility and […]
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. […]
November 13, 2019/23.28
While a hope and a prayer never hurts, the best anti-ageing secrets are much easier to come by than magic lamps and polysyllabic passwords. Autumn is a time of harvest for much of the world, and we had the opportunity to discover what’s cropping up in the worlds of skin care and CBD wellness. Jody […]
November 9, 2019/0.10
On her new YouTube channel, former lawyer and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly interviews Ashley Bianco, a former ABC News producer who was fired by her new employers, CBS News, over the leaking of a clip featuring journalist Amy Robach talking off-air but with a “hot mic” about the Jeffrey Epstein case. Epstein was […]
Diamond Langi wins Miss Universe New Zealand 2019
August 17, 2019/12.24
Alan Raga Above, from top: Diamond Langi is crowned by 2018 titleholder Estelle Curd. Diamond Langi gives her first wave after being crowned Miss Universe New Zealand 2019. Runners-up Charissa Rehu, Jayda Ormsby-Northcott, Hannah McCabe and Lydia Smit flank the new titleholder. In the most tightly fought Miss Universe New Zealand competitions in years, 27-year-old […]
