A positive feeling for this year’s Miss Universe New Zealand contest
Miss Universe Above Katie Taylor, Miss Universe New Zealand 2009. The author says he looks forward to a strong competition in 2010 as he and his fellow judges find Taylor’s successor on June 5 in Wellington. Last year, the Miss Universe New Zealand pageant was one of the best natured ones I’ve judged here. What […]
From Cheryl Cole to the fitness “boot camp”
Sean Gallup for de Grisogono/Getty Images For those of you catching up with Lucire on your RSS feeds, a little note to say that we were among the first media to get you pics from Cheryl Cole’s performance at the de Grisogono dinner party, where she entertained some of the stars at the Festival de […]
Forbes announces 2010’s top-earning models: Gisèle leads again
Forbes has announced its table of the world’s top-earning models for 2010, with supermodel Gisèle Bündchen (left, pictured for Hope Lingerie) heading the list at US$25 million, the same figure as last year. The rankings were little changed from 2009 and the top five placeholders were the same, save for some differences in the […]
Pregnant Claudia Schiffer appears nude on Deutsch Vogue cover
Karl Lagerfeld/Condé Nast A pregnant Claudia Schiffer appears on the June 2010 cover of Deutsch Vogue in the nude, photographed by Karl Lagerfeld. Supermodel Schiffer, 39, who has appeared on 11 covers of the magazine, is expected to give birth this month. This is her third child. Lagerfeld says he felt it important […]
HP, GHD launch Sex and the City 2 products
As hype about Sex and the City 2 begins to build, beauty and technology companies—along with the original book’s author—are beginning to cash in, collaborating on must-have new products, and a must-read prequel. The GHD Colour Collection, which launches today, features four brightly coloured straighteners—one for each of Sex and the City’s leading ladies. […]
FHM readers vote Cheryl Cole their favourite pin-up
With over a million votes cast, Britain’s lad magazine, FHM, has announced that Cheryl Cole (left, in a L’Oréal promotional image) is its readers’ choice for Sexiest Woman in the World for the second year running. Cole, 26, beat actress Megan Fox and model Marissa Miller. Frankie Sandford, Keeley Hazell, Kristen Stewart, Kelly […]
Joy Bryant, Kim Kardashian, Tamara Mellon pose nude in US magazines
Above Kim Kardashian appears naked but for an anklet in a spread for Harper’s Bazaar, May 2010, photographed by Amanda de Cadanet. May seems to be the month of posing nude in American magazines: there’s Kim Kardashian and Joy Bryant in the buff in Harper’s Bazaar, while Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon is nude in […]
Elsewhere on the Lucire site: Gisèle Bündchen to Devi Garh
Supermodel Gisèle Bündchen (left) appears on the cover of our web edition today, for modelling Brazilian brand Colcci. We’ve a few more photographs on the site. If you are reading Lucire via RSS feed, you may be interested in Rola Saab’s exclusive story on Lanvin designer Lucas Ossendrijver. Our Q&A appears here. Meanwhile, […]
Ukraine’s FotyMody releases second issue, with free download
There’s often a snobbery-based reaction against PDFed fashion magazines, but the tide is turning. FotyMody, out of the Ukraine, has such lovely shoots that it’s worth visiting its home page and doing the 47 Mbyte PDF download to see the visuals. Typographically, it leaves something to be desired, but in such a publication, the writing […]
Cheryl Cole is Britain’s best dressed, says poll
While one poll puts Cheryl Cole (left, in a L’Oréal promotional image) in second place after Kylie Minogue in terms of UK celebrity power, another has the Geordie songstress in first place: Condé Nast’s Glamour magazine’s UK edition poll on who is the best dressed. Cole, 26, beat fellow singer Rihanna, who came in […]
