Samantha Hannah launches stylish bag range, using recycled materials
Lucire editor Samantha Hannah’s In the Pond collection of handbags, satchels and wallets for Konev launches this week, using fully recycled and some sustainable material. Samantha’s expertise and continued practice as a stylist and style consultant has resulted in a line that works with all body shapes. The bags are made from soft, high-quality […]
Finalists announced in Blue Cactus competition
Lucire fashion editor Samantha Hannah has the three finalists in Blue Cactus’s promotion, one of whom will take away an $8,000 prize package that we previewed last month. You may also like Michael Beel scoops top honour at Industry New Zealand Hair Awards; Derek Elvy inducted into Hall of Fame Blue Cactus makeover promotion has […]
Megan Fox grabs headlines for spring–summer ’10
Mert & Marcus Above Megan Fox is the latest celebrity to front a fashion label’s campaign. In the main part of the Lucire site this week, Samantha Hannah makes her first 10 style picks for ’10, for the southern summer in New Zealand. Elyse Glickman, meanwhile, discovers there’s more to choosing jewellery for the bride, […]
Sophie Burrowes’ Samantha vest
There have been some amazing things in my career to date but when Sophie Burrowes, a young Massey University fashion designer, who I admire for so many reasons, told me she had named a piece in her first collection (she’s still in design school, by the way) after me, I was blown away. It’s […]
Cup Day, lay-by holidays and Den’s return—24 hours at Lucire
We had a nice call from Bree Nicholls at SDA today, following up on an earlier press release she had sent about lay-by holidays last week. Of the many we get here, it was easy to miss, but it’s a pretty good idea: ‘With LayAway Holidays you can book and pay off your holiday before […]
Pick of the week: Stolen Girlfriends’ Club
For me this was easily one of the best shows of Air New Zealand Fashion Week. Stolen Girlfriends’ Club’s autumn–winter 2010 collection is clever and original. How to make the Pocahontas look cool! There was so much to fall in love with. Some of my hits: the heavy cable knits, cropped vests layered over […]
Behind the scenes on the Summer Rayne Oakes interview
For Lucire readers who remember when editor-at-large Summer Rayne Oakes visited Wellington, here are a few shots, taken by head designer Tanya Sooksombatisatian, from behind the scenes of fashion editor Samantha Hannah’s interview (broadcast on Snap Star and this site), talking about Summer Rayne’s book, Style, Naturally. The interview was held at St John’s Bar. […]
New Zealand Fashion Week’s grand opening
The opening celebration was held at the New Zealand Fashion Week sheds at the Viaduct in Auckland. Moët and Ned wines were the sponsors of drink, though only Moët seemed to be drunk—it flowed like a river, poured over-excitedly by untrained waiters. Needless to say there were a few Moët-drenched Jimmy Choos about. Speaking […]
Lucire’s Samantha Hannah and Jack Yan speak at Section Zero workshop
At the end of July, Lucire fashion editor Samantha Hannah and publisher Jack Yan spoke at the Section Zero Models’ workshop. Colin Mathura-Jeffree made the trip down from Auckland, and designer Robyn Mathieson was another guest of honour at the event. The below video was put together by Ben Forman. You may also like New […]
Dinner with Summer Rayne Oakes, Samantha Hannah and the Lucire team
From last month, during editor-at-large Summer Rayne Oakes’s visit to New Zealand: our photographer, Douglas Rimington, took images on his film camera of a dinner at fashion editor Samantha Hannah’s home. These photographs were processed last week. We made pizza, the old-fashioned Italian way, with Samantha’s husband, Damian, guiding the proceedings. Douglas Rimington/Detune Photography You […]
