Putting the brakes on fast fashion
Lucire is UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner. Abigail Beall’s statistics in a recent BBC report about clothing recycling make sobering reading. She writes, ‘Around 85% of all textiles thrown away in the US—roughly 13 million tonnes in 2017—are either dumped into landfill or burned. The average American has been estimated to throw away around […]
Instagram round-up, April 24: whatever you do, don’t mention the pandemic
There’s a lot happening around this time of year, including the Orthodox Easter, Earth Day, the start of Ramadan, and ANZAC Day, and over the last week, celebrities have been Instagramming in a more positive way, even though the COVID-19 pandemic is very much with us. Natalia Vodianova (@natasupernova) showed off her dining table […]
Hennes & Mauritz has released further images from the H&M Conscious Exclusive collections, previewed in Lucire in February. A plissé dress made of Bionic, a sustainable polyester made from recycled shoreline waste, was part of the preview, but H&M has revealed more about other designs made from the fabric. The company has screen-printed […]
Natalia Vodianova fronts H&M’s Conscious Exclusive campaign in a gown made from recycled polyester
Natalia Vodianova stars in H&M’s Conscious Exclusive campaign, highlighting the brand’s use of Bionic, a recycled polyester made from recovered shoreline waste. H&M Conscious is the Swedish retailer’s sustainable, socially responsible collection, with the Exclusives going a step further with limited-edition designs and, usually, a high-profile spokesmodel. The key design this season is […]
Dan and Corina Lecca French lingerie label Etam celebrated its centenary at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris yesterday, with an exquisite, 80-model catwalk show that displayed the label’s sexy styles along with Gallic pride. Models included Mélodie Vaxelaire, Eniko, Valerie Kaufman, Antonina Petkovic, Pauline Hoarau, Li Xiao, Ana Beatriz Barros, Amanda Wellsh, Diana […]
Lucire’s Instagram round-up, June 6: Natalia Vodianova nude to Lupita Nyong’o’s nails
Model Natalia Vodianova made headlines with her Instagram this week, showing off a nude image with her breastfeeding son, photographed by Paolo Roversi. The photograph was dedicated to her husband, Antoine Arnault, for his birthday. It was later revealed by Vodianova on her Instagram that the photographer was Roversi, who ‘was one of the […]
As Paris continues to show its haute couture collections with Lucire’s Lola Saab in attendance, we have more videos from the event. Milla Jovovich, Rose Byrne, Clémence Poésy, Vanessa Paradis, Kristen Stewart, Michael Pitt, Olivier Assayas, Rihanna and Bobby Cannavale were among the celebrities invited to the autumn–winter 2013–14 presentations (yes, in the plural) […]
Who will be Forbes’ top-earning models for 2013?
Above Gisèle Bündchen, who has returned to model for H&M, first appeared in 2000 for the company’s summer swimwear. In a few weeks’ time, Forbes will release its table of the world’s top-earning models for June 2012 to June 2013. Lucire didn’t report on the numbers last year, but if we did, we would […]
Gisèle Bündchen increases lead in Forbes’s 2011 top-earning models’ list
Steven Meisel Above Lara Stone was the surprise in Forbes’s 2011 list of top-earning models, buoyed by her Calvin Klein campaign, among others. Forbes has released its 2011 list of the world’s top-earning models, with a substantial (30 per cent) rise for the top three: Gisèle Bündchen, Heidi Klum and Kate Moss. Bündchen leapt […]
Will Gisèle Bündchen keep her crown as the top-earning model in 2011?
Above Natalia Vodianova, appearing here for Etam lingerie, is expected to remain in the top 10 for annual earnings, based on Vicki Matias’s calculations. Every year, Forbes announces its table of the world’s top-earning models for the year. This year, we thought we’d try to make an educated guess on who might be in first […]
