Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns fronts H&M Conscious Exclusive’s 2018 campaign
Mikael Jansson Lucire is UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner. Christy Turlington Burns, one of the original supermodels, stars in the 2018 H&M Conscious Exclusive campaign, to be released on April 19, 2018. New Zealand’s H&M Sylvia Park store will be the first to retail the new line. The collection of womenswear, shoes and […]
Turn up the music: GBK’s pre-Grammy lounge impresses at Philippe by Philippe Chow
Celebrities at GBK’s pre-Grammy suites: Chris Blue, India Arie and Tatiana Elizabeth Price. GBK Productions presented a luxuriously set celebrity gifting suite with at the prominent Philippe by Philippe Chow restaurant in New York. The lounge, in honour of the 60th Grammy Awards, took place in an intimate setting bringing media, celebrities and a number […]
Footwear frenzy: Nae’s Etna boots use upcycled airbags; DSW has on-trend shoes for the winter
Portuguese brand Nae (an acronym for No Animal Exploitation) already showed a pair of shoes made from pineapple leaf fibres. This season, it’s recycled airbags and car tyres in its latest design, the Etna. By upcycling, Nae has given the materials a new lease of life. They have reused the nylon in the airbags for […]
Why we should be thankful for Stella McCartney
Lucire is UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner. In October, Fast Company profiled Stella McCartney in a piece that found its way to me not via Lucire, but via Medinge Group, the international think-tank on humanistic branding. Wearing that hat, we’ve long advocated corporate social responsibility, and McCartney has been “living the brand” for a […]
Top: Shidong Yan, director of the Centre for Environmental Education and Communications of Ministry of Environmental Protection; Tom Szaky, TerraCycle founder and global CEO; Haoran Liu; Zhenzhen Lan, Vice President, L’Oréal (China). Above: The Body Shop British Rose Premium Selection (NZ$95·50), and the British Rose collection. It’s nice that the Body Shop can also source […]
Kérastase enters natural hair care market with Aura Botanica range; Toni Garrn spokesmodel
Kérastase has introduced its Aura Botanica line in New Zealand, featuring a shampoo (Bain Micellaire), retailing at NZ$48, a conditioner (Soin Fondamental), NZ$52, a treatment (Concentre Essentiel), NZ$79, and an oil mist (Essence d’Éclat), NZ$70. The collection is, on average, 98 per cent natural in origin—a first for this L’Oréal brand—and includes pure hand-pressed Samoan […]
Catching our eye: stand-outs at the 2017 ID Emerging Designer Awards
Thirty finalists were selected to showcase their capsule collections at the 2017 ID Emerging Designer Awards’ runway show. Hosted on a crisp autumn evening in the iconic Dunedin Railway Station, the finalists were chosen by a panel of judges from over 150 different entrants, with designers coming from all over the world. Head judge […]
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 […]
Celebrity Connected: a platform for the “green party”
Elyse Glickman After an intense, divisive US presidential season, and its controversial aftermath, Californians were ready to kick off award show season. Celebrity Connected not only got the party started, but provided some much needed pre-Christmas comfort and joy to greet the Hollywood creative community. The W Hollywood became a Garden of Eden, filled with […]
Jaguar launches XF in style in New Zealand with Murray Crane and Crane Brothers event
Arguably, Jaguar launches with more style in New Zealand than in other countries, thanks to its collaboration with its ambassador Murray Crane, and his menswear label Crane Brothers. The second-generation XF launch last Thursday saw not just drinks and canapés, but the release of Crane Brothers’ autumn–winter 2016 collection. Held at Crane Brothers’ […]
