Venturelli, Andreas Rentz, L’Oréal Paris Aishwarya Rai Bachchan wore an extravagant golden Elie Saab gown for the fourth day at the Festival de Cannes, attending the première of The BFG (short for Big Friendly Giant), based on the Roald Dahl book, and directed for Disney by Steven Spielberg. Rai Bachchan, easily one of the […]
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is a woman whose presence we await with anticipation at Cannes: you know whatever she wears is going to set a high standard for eveningwear at the annual film festival. This year was no exception as the Bollywood actress attended the 69th Festival de Cannes—her 15th—at the première of Ma loute […]
Festival de Cannes 2016, day 2: Kristina Bazan, Eva Longoria, Naomi Watts and Julianne Moore shine
Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis Venturelli The L’Oréal Paris “signature faces” were in force on day two of the Festival de Cannes, showing the latest looks from the French firm, and how its make-up has it covered regardless of age. Blogger and singer Kristina Bazan, 22, of Kayture made her Cannes début for the brand at the Money […]
Jack Yan Above: The team behind A Billion Lives, and Doc Edge organizers Dan Shannon and Alex Lee. Those of us outside the vaping world have probably looked at e-cigarettes, wondering why on earth these could be better for your health. Or we may have thought they were a fad, since the only people I […]
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 […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s The Wizard of Oz: a family-friendly feast
Ross Brown I truly hope Francesco Ventriglia’s The Wizard of Oz will be performed all over the world, because this family-friendly ballet has all the ingredients for first-time and seasoned watchers alike. What we saw at the world première tonight in Wellington were skilful dancing, moments of contemplation, beautiful staging and design, and a masterful […]
Lucire TV on the red carpet: Helen Mirren, Lady Gaga, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Carey Mulligan
FX Networks Speaking on the red carpet at the première of Trumbo at the London Film Festival, Helen Mirren says that US culture is well known globally because of its film industry. The new film, about real-life US screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, John Goodman and Mirren herself, and […]
The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: where talent surpasses itself
Stephen A’Court Top Dancers Tonia Looker and MacLean Hopper in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Above Tonia Looker and Harry Skinner. If you ever wish to see the Royal New Zealand Ballet when everyone has reached beyond what you knew was their peak, then A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents that very opportunity: a ballet where the […]
Sonam Kapoor, Natalie Portman, Li Bing Bing, Natasha Poly, Laetitia Guarino shine on Cannes’ day 4
Andreas Rentz Neilson Barnard Natalie Portman’s directorial début, A Tale of Love and Darkness, is an adaptation of Amoz Oz’s novel, looking at the founding of the state of Israel when he was a boy. Wearing a strapless black-and-white Dior dress with a full skirt from the spring–summer 2015 collection, Portman evoked the house’s postwar […]
The Royal Ballet announces its 2015–16 programme, including four world premières
Above Steven McRae as Florizel in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale, which will be revived for the Royal Ballet’s 2015–16 season. Photograph copyright ©2014 by Johan Persson. Above Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, performed in 1965. Photograph copyright ©1965 by Leslie E. Spatt. The Royal Ballet has announced its 2015–16 season under its director, Kevin […]
