Celebrity-spotting at the Festival de Cannes 2021: Chanel, Dior and Etro’s red-carpet glam
Dominique Charriau/WireImage; Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis; Daniele Venturelli Day four of the 74th Cannes Film Festival, for the Benedetta première, saw Izabel Goulart in a custom white Etro gown, in contrast to the black Saint Laurent gown with cut-outs worn by Anja Rubik. Miss France 2018 Maeva Coucke chose from Ziad Nakad’s spring 2021 haute couture collection, […]
Institute of Positive Fashion Forum aims to make real change for sustainable development
The Institute of Positive Fashion Forum will take place digitally on June 10, and runs from 9 a.m. to a final event with Stella McCartney commencing at 6.10 p.m. The thought leadership event is designed to galvanize the fashion industry—one of the planet’s major contributors to environmental harm—into action, ahead of COP26. Tickets […]
Are these the trends we’ll remember the 2020s by?
A fashion magazine seems to have a few roles. The first is to create a record of trends, not just reporting on them but preempting them, as a snapshot of where society is at any given moment. The second is arguably to chart culture itself, and just what the Zeitgeist is. If the articles […]
British Fashion Council announces the Fashion Awards 2020, with Beijing, Shanghai screenings
With the UK continuing to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the British Fashion Council’s Fashion Awards (formerly the British Fashion Awards) announced its 20 winners with a digital film première. The 30-minute film went live at www.fashionawards.com today and on YouTube on the BFC’s account, and was screened in selected cities, including Beijing and […]
Giorgio Armani, Daniel Lee, Kim Jones scoop top honours at the Fashion Awards 2019
British Fashion Council Top honours at this year’s Fashion Awards—formerly the British Fashion Awards—went to Giorgio Armani, Daniel Lee for Bottega Veneta, and Kim Jones for Dior Men, in a spectacular night at the Royal Albert Hall in London, hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross and attended by 4,000 guests. As well as presenters and […]
HRH the Duchess of Sussex a surprise presenter at the Fashion Awards
John Phillips Mike Marsland/BFC The Fashion Awards, formerly the British Fashion Awards, have become one of the fashion industry’s most celebrated nights. As usual, the British Fashion Council, which runs the event, slowly drip-fed media over the last six weeks on this year’s developments: that Jack Whitehall and Alek Wek would host on December 10 […]
British Fashion Council Designer of the Year gongs were awarded to Raf Simons, Jonathan Anderson and Craig Green tonight at the Fashion Awards 2017 presented by the British Fashion Council in partnership with Swarovski. The star-studded night held at the Royal Albert Hall saw Simons awarded for his work at Calvin Klein, Anderson 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 […]
Making headlines this month: Mai Davikha is a Thai actress and celebrity, and the youngest superstar in Thailand. She is the spokeswoman for HM Queen Siriki’s breast cancer campaign, which began in 2017—she shared a modelling photo to her 6·6 million audience. Selena Gómez is well known as an American singer and actress, and […]
Kate Moss, Stella McCartney and other celebs get behind Bore off Cancer’s T-shirt campaign
If we’re going to introduce the colloquialism bore off into Lucire, it’s only right that it’s done for a good cause, namely for Lee McKervey’s Bore off T-shirts. McKervey, who had personally experienced the care from the cancer support organization Macmillan, is donating £5 from each Bore off Cancer T-shirt sale. Macmillan helps […]
