You could thank Whoopi Goldberg’s appearance in Sister Act for the early inspiration behind Welsh singer Aimee Ann Duffy’s rise to fame. With over 5·5 million copies of her début album Rockferry being sold worldwide, Duffy hails from the small North Wales town of Nefyn where she started singing in local bands, later appearing on a Welsh Pop […]
Fergie’s shoe lines hit US stores
Above: Pop superstar Fergie poses for photographer Tom Munro during the Fergie and Fergalicious brand photo shoot in New York. Among those helping Fergie look her best for the photos, which consumers can see in stores and at FergieShoes.com, were fashion stylist Joe Zee, hairstylist Serge Normant and make-up artist Gucci Westman. Pop sensation Fergie’s […]
Ray-Ban celebrates Clubmaster at Bowery Ballroom
Ray-Ban has been celebrating its Clubmaster style, originally launched in 1986 and inspired by the lifestyle of the 1950s and 1960s, at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. Celebrities attending included Maggie Gyllenhaal, Blake Lively, Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson, Ed Westwick, Kevin Bacon, Robert Buckley and Charlotte Ronson. Black Kids, Ipso-Facto and White Williams performed, with a […]
Fabulous sexagenarians: Jaclyn Smith, Olivia Newton-John
There’s a lot of talk about supermodels such as Elle Macpherson and Claudia Schiffer continuing to model and scoring new campaigns, not to mention Vogue Paris’s new Cindy Crawford shoot, but the media haven’t really noticed celebrities in their 60s contributing to the Zeitgeist this year. On TV screens in many countries is Olivia […]
Sony Ericsson’s FanWalk brings MTV and Walkmans together
Sony Ericsson and MTV have hosted a FanWalk, where 100 music lovers from Europe, the Middle East and Africa participated in a nine-day, 400 km pilgrimage from London to Liverpool from October 29. The 100 were selected from 3,000 applicants who uploaded an online casting video to fanwalk.tv. They have been uploading personal daily […]
Victoria Beckham in Elizabeth Mason Couture—how the choice came about
While we have the ‘Scene’ section in some of the print editions of Lucire, we aren’t exactly a paparazzi magazine. However, every now and then we do come across shots that may be of interest independently of the events we attend, such as these two. Both are of Victoria Beckham: the first, she wears the Elizabeth […]
The Kin hit the Troubador with Josh Kelley and the Pat McGee Band
[Cross-posted] It’s not all the time I hit the clubs. There are musicians who can attest to that—mostly because of deadlines or time frames of when they are going on and the distance I have to drive. Recently the Kin toured with Josh Kelley and the Pat McGee Band for well over a month […]
