Allbirds releases limited-edition Wool Runner, teaming up with independent Wellington businesses

February 7, 2017/23.32

Allbirds has launched an eight-day celebration in Wellington starting today to promote artisans and creators who share its brand’s philosophy of quality and independence. Allbirds, a sustainable footwear brand co-founded by former All Whites skipper Tim Brown, has teamed up with craft brewery Garage Project, coffee roaster Coffee Supreme, and chocolatier Wellington Chocolate Factory. […]

SAG Awards: Claire Foy, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Viola Davis shine on red carpet, while on stage, stars get political

January 30, 2017/23.18

Dimitrios Kambouris, Kevin Mazur, Christopher Polk, Stefanie Keenan, John Sciulli, Emma McIntyre, Matt Winkelmeyer, Frazer Harrison The 23rd annual Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, held at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on Sunday, honoured outstanding performances from 2016 in film and television. From the moment the ceremony began, the stars wasted no time diving […]

Mary Tyler Moore’s most famous TV shows altered lives for the better

January 26, 2017/12.38

Jack Yan You’re going to make it after all When visiting Minneapolis many years ago, I photographed the now-famous statue of Mary Tyler Moore doing the “hat toss” from the credits of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. When I asked my colleague Nathalia Archila to write an obituary for Mary Tyler Moore, it reminded me […]

Mary Tyler Moore, ground-breaking actress and diabetes campaigner, dies aged 80

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The two Camelots: the Petries’ living room was the hippest fictional place to be in the early 1960s, with Dick van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore as Rob and Laura Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Ed Asner with Moore in the pilot episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show—not the first take. The […]

La La Land gets 14 nominations for 2017 Oscars, including leads Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling

January 24, 2017/23.10

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in La La Land, courtesy Lionsgate Publicity.

The lists of nominees for the 89th Academy Awards were announced on the morning of January 24 in a live stream that took place in six cities around the world, rather than at its traditional home of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. La La Land surprised with 14 nominations including Best Picture, Best […]

Bringing Confucius’ legend to life

January 10, 2017/11.04

Liu Haidong After Asia, Europe and Australia the dance drama, Confucius, lands in New York. The China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG) returned with a marvellous performance at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. The China National Opera and Dance Drama Theatre presented an inspiring feature, directed and choreographed by a 77th-generation descendant […]

GBK puts the ‘lounge’ back into its Golden Globe Century Lounge

January 7, 2017/22.23

Elyse Glickman For GBK’s last several award show-outings, Gavin Keilly and his troupe went high volume and high production, complete with backdrops at such larger-than-life places as the W Hollywood. The sampling, gifting and revelry went on for days at these things (well, two, to be exact, but you get the idea, based on our […]

A Golden mine of beauty finds, as the Secret Room honours 74th Globes nominees

January 6, 2017/22.42

J. C. Olivera Among the celebrities attending: Rénée Oldstead, Amara Karan, Katie Leclerc. Anyone attending a Secret Room event during an award show weekend can count on discovering cutting-edge, kind-to-the-environment beauty products. However, the Secret Room Events honouring 74th Golden Globe Awards nominees and presenters focused almost entirely of skin care and wellness products made […]

Special features to kick off Lucire’s 20th anniversary year

January 5, 2017/10.31

Paula Sweet Above: Stanley Moss heads to Punta Ala in one of his best travel pieces to date. Click here to read it. Welcome to Lucire’s 20th anniversary year. Remember that if you don’t see a news update (which will come with an RSS update), you can go to the main part of the […]

Gigi Hadid poses naked for Stuart Weitzman’s spring 2017 campaign

December 14, 2016/11.37

Mario Testino Gigi Hadid poses naked, save for her Stuart Weitzman metallic satin ankle boots, in the company’s upcoming campaign for spring 2017, photographed by Mario Testino. It’s not the first time the model of the moment (or the year, according to the British Fashion Council) has posed nude for the brand: its spring […]