Letter from Venezia: a survival guide for summer ’16
Paula Sweet Above, from top: Venezia has legendary picture-perfect palaces all along the Grand Canal. Cruise ship departs, photographed from San Marco Square. Luna Hotel Bagioni’s Canova Restaurant. Greetings from La Serenissima, where the sultry days of summer have descended as the lanes grow thick with eager visitors. It’s late June, and temperatures already read […]
Many of you have enjoyed Paula Sweet’s photography in Lucire, and now you can have an entire volume of her work with her new book, Do Not. Paula has caught signs all over our planet during her travels, and asks in the synopsis, ‘In a world of limitation and regulation, how aware are you […]
News round-up: letter from Marrakech teased; Jessica Alba favours Jane Iredale; our road tests
Theo Wargo/Getty Images Stanley Moss Top Olivia Wilde, Jordan Hewson and Jessica Alba at the 2014 Global Citizen Festival to end extreme poverty by 2030, in Central Park on September 27. Above Paula Sweet photographs exclusively in Morocco for Lucire: the secrets of Berber Saffron Tea. From left to right, Amanjena GM Gabriel Louzada, Paula […]
A busy week for Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
A Lucire exclusive Paula Sweet In a whirlwind week, two extraordinary events occurred in northern Italy, both under the stewardship of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. On the night of Wednesday, September 10 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Torino, a travelling exhibition showcasing the finalists to this year’s Prix Pictet launched. This year’s […]
Dopo Natale: letter from Venezia
Paula Sweet Greetings the week after Christmas 2013! I’m living here for the month, writing and reporting, and the city is grand. You still see huge tour groups of curious Asians—welcome, friends! But the lanes are comparatively empty now, and they will thin out next week after the New Year. It’s the perfect season to […]
Behind the scenes at Vivienne Westwood Gold Label
Stanley Moss Top Vivienne Westwood being interviewed at the after-party in Paris. Typical reports on the runway shows in Paris focus on fashion fashion fashion. We need to be reminded that months of preparation precede this 20-minute walk in the sun, an atmospheric explosion of sound and light and motion. Lucire was invited by […]
