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The meaning of 9-11, seven years on

September 10, 2008/13.34

As it is September 11 here in New Zealand, I thought about what I might write in tribute to those who fell that day. Then I remembered that I wrote something last year at this time, viz. quoting my own editorial written on September 11, 2001 (which, of course, was the 12th as far as […]

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Marisa Miller is Victoria’s Secret’s latest ‘Angel’

September 9, 2008/13.05

Model Marisa Miller has signed a multi-year contract as a Victoria’s Secret  ‘Angel’—one of its top, most visible models—said the company on Monday.    Miller will make her ?rst appearance for the brand at noon on the 16th at the Victoria’s Secret store at Herald Square, New York City, promoting its new fragrance, Very Sexy Dare. She […]

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Model suicide in Manhattan’s Financial District

June 29, 2008/2.02

Above: Ruslana Korshunova as she appeared in a print advertisement for Vera Wang. A woman committed suicide on Water Street in New York City’s Financial District yesterday afternoon, and the Murdoch Press’s New York Post is reporting it was Kazakh model Ruslana Korshunova, 20.    The newspaper claims that Korshunova jumped from her ninth-storey apartment.    Korshunova had been […]

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The sex-obsessed world of the Miley Cyrus photographs

April 30, 2008/21.47

It’s not that we haven’t kept up with the row over the Miley Cyrus photographs taken by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair, which sexualize the teenage star, but I have to draw the line somewhere when it comes to news coverage.    There are quarters in fashion publishing which would deem these photographs appropriate and […]

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Is Vogue’s April 2008 cover racist?

March 21, 2008/1.02

Vogue’s April 2008 cover with the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James and Gisèle Bündchen has been branded by some as being racist. As noted by the Plain Dealer over in Cleveland, Ohio: LeBron shares the April cover of Vogue magazine with supermodel Gisele Bundchen. It’s been noted by some that his open-mouthed screaming face and the […]

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Roberto Cavalli and H&M: the trans-Atlantic party season

November 24, 2007/4.32

You’ve seen the video (which has been on the Lucire home page since late October), now read the article: a little more news of Roberto Cavalli and H&M’s collaboration and the parties they had in Roma and New York to kick it off.    We hesitate linking the video in too many places, since it […]

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Lucire editorial, September 11, 2001

September 12, 2007/1.49

Let the healing begin Lucire, September 11, 2001 Today we suspend our New York activities in light of the attacks on the United States. And we know many of you are turning to us for our thoughts. I have my thoughts on what this all means.    First, we send our deepest, most heartfelt sympathies […]

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