Indie Beauty Expo (IBE): Hollywood’s “independents’ day”
Clinique, Lancôme and L’Oréal may have been staples on our vanity tables for decades, but there is something about trying the best invention nobody’s heard of yet. The Indie Beauty Expo (IBE), staged at the the Shrine Expo Hall (best known as a venue for rock concerts and award ceremonies) was the place beauty bloggers […]
Jack Yan Above: The team behind A Billion Lives, and Doc Edge organizers Dan Shannon and Alex Lee. Those of us outside the vaping world have probably looked at e-cigarettes, wondering why on earth these could be better for your health. Or we may have thought they were a fad, since the only people I […]
Indulging in nostalgia: new Catalina Island Museum opening
Copyright Bunny Yeager/Galerie Schuster Top: Architect’s rendering of the new Catalina Island Museum façade. Above: Bettie Page on the Florida beach, 1954. Day trippers appreciate the southern California destination Catalina Island, easily accessible from Los Angeles. You take the ferry boat from Long Beach, cross the channel, and in about an hour, land in the […]
Many of you have enjoyed Paula Sweet’s photography in Lucire, and now you can have an entire volume of her work with her new book, Do Not. Paula has caught signs all over our planet during her travels, and asks in the synopsis, ‘In a world of limitation and regulation, how aware are you […]
Margot Robbie to model in Deep Euphoria Calvin Klein fragrance campaign
Neil Rasmus/BFA Australian actress Margot Robbie is the new face of Calvin Klein’s latest women’s fragrance, Deep Euphoria Calvin Klein. The Coty fragrance will début in August, with Robbie appearing in print and on TV. It builds on the goodwill of the existing Calvin Klein Euphoria fragrance. ‘Ms Robbie perfectly embodies the […]
Ashley Graham, Amanda Bingson and others lead Swimsuitsforall campaign encouraging body positivity
Russell James Online retailer Swimsuitsforall, which specializes in superior, well fitting swimwear for curvy women, has launched its summer campaign, hashtagged #MySwimBody. Modelled by Sports Illustrated 2016 Swimsuit Issue cover girl Ashley Graham, activist and model Philomena Kwao, 56-year-old silver fox Nicola Griffin, photographer and mother Jessica Lavoie, and professional athlete and Olympian Amanda […]
Committee of 100 celebrates Chinese-American success and talent
Committee of 100 and BeBe Jacobs The Committee of 100 (C-100) came together for a celebratory event in Los Angeles to praise Chinese-American achievements in the midst of a society that tends to build bridges of understanding between cultures successfully. The extraordinary committee, founded in 1990, consists of acclaimed personalities including cellist Yo-Yo Ma, YouTube […]
Morgan Freeman honoured at 43rd Annual Chaplin Award Gala by Film Society of Lincoln Center
Getty Images Jim Spellman Morgan Freeman was honoured on Monday night by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, at its 43rd Annual Chaplin Award Gala, sponsored by Jaeger-LeCoultre. The Academy Award-winning actor follows other luminaries including Charlie Chaplin, for whom the award is named, and who was the first recipient in 1972, Alfred Hitchcock, […]
The big reveal for HTC’s 10 smartphone in New York
New York rolled out the red carpet for the big reveal of HTC’s newly and much awaited 2016 flagship smartphone earlier in April. Weeks before, the industry were enthusiastically anticipating the state-of-the-art HTC 10. Its sleek look, elegant structure and slightly oblique curves radiate with sophistication. The aluminium unibody Android stores up to 27 […]
Prince cremated in private ceremony
Above: The artwork for Prince’s 1987 album, Sign ‘O’ the Times. The late music idol Prince has been cremated in accordance with his Jehovah’s Witness faith. The private ceremony took place on Friday afternoon, said his publicist, Anna Meacham. She said, ‘A few hours ago, Prince was celebrated by a small group of his […]
