H&M teams up with Swedish Hasbeens, offering ’70s-style clogs
Mattias Bardå Above Ann-Sofie Johansson, H&M’s head of design, and Emy Blixt, founder and designer of Swedish Hasbeens. Below The three spring–summer styles from Hasbeens for H&M and their various colour schemes. Hennes & Mauritz will distribute Swedish Hasbeens, a cult shoe label selling wooden-soled clogs. With customers favouring hand-made items and appreciating craft […]
Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan, crowned Miss America 2011
Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan, is Miss America 2011, crowned at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, on Saturday. We have video from the event, hosted by the incomparable Robin Leach, including a shoe parade for DSW Shoes, an appearance by Miss America 1955, Lee Meriwether—the original Catwoman, as Leach is keen to point out—and Miss Nevada, Cris […]
Hetty Rose ready-to-wear on the market, from £180
Hetty Rose has put its ready-to-wear collection on sale this month, with designer Henrietta Rose Samuels choosing her Mika, Yuki, Kiki, Haruka and Mami styles for release. The styles, which have typically been hand-made with a six- to eight-week wait, now come in a ready-to-wear form from £180 retail. Announced last year, these […]
Deckers launches another lawsuit over Ugg trade mark
On December 7, Deckers Outdoor Corp. filed suit in the US District Court in the Central District of California against Emu Australia, Inc. and Emu (Aus.) Pty. Ltd., claiming infringement over the Ugg Australia trade mark. Emu has this week issued a statement in response to the lawsuit, claiming that in Australia, Ugg has […]
Adidas unveils spring ’11 TechFit, with help from the Staatsballett Berlin
Ballet must be in the Zeitgeist. Adidas has unveiled its spring–summer 2011 TechFit shoe collection with help from its local ballet, the Staatsballett Berlin, which features Adidas ambassador Alessandra Pasquali. The collection was unveiled at Berlin’s Stadtbad Oderberger with ballerinas from the Staatsballett. It had been developed with the Staatsballet, meeting the athletic […]
A first glance at New Zealand Fashion Week
Michael Ng Above Sabatini returned in force for its autumn–winter 2011 show at New Zealand Fashion Week. (All photographs by Michael Ng.) Made for walking Kathryn Wilson launched her autumn–winter collection to a packed crowd. Glamazonian models stalked the runway in Wilson’s creations as part of the first shoe show at this year’s New Zealand […]
Kathryn Wilson to show for the first time at NZ Fashion Week
Lucire was the first to have covered Kathryn Wilson after her graduate show at Massey University. It is exciting to see how the Kathryn Wilson label grown over the past seven years from young fledgling designer label to be a major player in the New Zealand fashion market. Her autumn–winter 2011 presentation at New […]
Dispatches: Rupert Sanderson, Sylvie van der Vaart and Ria van Dyke
For those getting their updates via RSS, Australian-based writer Cassandra Murnieks has interviewed British shoe designer Rupert Sanderson. Her excellent story appears in the online edition as a feature this week here. If you missed it earlier, Sopheak Seng’s Kowtow spring–summer 2010–11 review is also in the main part of the Lucire site. (There is […]
Cushla Reed launches eponymous shoe label
Minx Shoes’ Cushla Reed (above) has launched a new line bearing her own name. The eponymous brand, Cushla Reed: the Minx, will be available from mid-August, for the spring–summer 2010–11 season. The range will comprise eight styles and be available in Australia and New Zealand. ‘This new, signature range is definitely something different […]
Pirelli PZero shows its Rubber Racer shoes, I Cut jacket for spring
Pirelli has been extending its brand into fashion since 2002, extending its P-Zero designation into its own label. The aim is to have PZero (without the hyphen) denote high-tech fashion, with modern materials, expanding into a full fashion line. For spring–summer 2011, the company has released, inter alia, a sailing shoe, the Pirelli PZero […]
