The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: where talent surpasses itself
Stephen A’Court Top Dancers Tonia Looker and MacLean Hopper in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Above Tonia Looker and Harry Skinner. If you ever wish to see the Royal New Zealand Ballet when everyone has reached beyond what you knew was their peak, then A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents that very opportunity: a ballet where the […]
Tiffany & Co. to open store in Britomart, Auckland in late 2016
Tiffany & Co. will open its first company-operated retail store in New Zealand in late 2016, to be located in Britomart, Auckland. It will be located at the ground floor of the Historic Places Trust-registered Australis House, 36–8 Customs Street, and occupy 430 m² of space. There will be the usual hallmarks: the use […]
Jennifer López and her collection headline Endless Jewelry’s entry into New Zealand
Michael Becker/Fox Jennifer López has collaborated with Endless Jewelry, and fronts the campaign for the Danish jewellery brand as it launches into New Zealand this month. The actress and singer has created her own range of charms and bracelets, to be sold in New Zealand under the Jennifer López Collection. She had worn […]
Rihanna launches RiRi by Rihanna eaux de parfum, a more ‘flirty’ scent
Rihanna has launched a new scent through Parlux Fragrances, called RiRi by Rihanna. The new fragrance is meant to show a more playful side to the international music artist, with top notes of passionfruit extract, rum absolute, cassis and Italian mandarin; mid-notes of Japanese honeysuckle, orange blossom, jasmine and pink freesia, and basenotes of […]
Norell New York launches, with Riley Keough fronting Michael Avedon-shot campaign
Norell New York, named for the famed American fashion designer Norman Norell, will be hitting Bergdorf Goodman in New York and Neiman-Marcus throughout the US this month with a range headlined by a limited-edition parfum with a hand-crafted bottle by Baccarat priced at US$1,500. The 50 ml parfum is joined by a 100 ml […]
Manfred Baumann International photographer Manfred Baumann (left) will have an exhibition of his celebrity portraits in New York in 2016, featuring Kristanna Loken, David Hasselhoff and his daughter Hayley, John Carpenter, Mark Hamill, Alison Eastwood, Evander Holyfield, Jorja Fox, Fran Drescher, Molly Parker, JoBeth Williams, Harry Hamlin, Trevor Donovan, Carlos Bernard and Annie Wersching. […]
Eva Longoria in New Zealand to launch Specsavers’ 2015 Spectacle Wearer of the Year competition
Eva Longoria is currently in Auckland, New Zealand to launch Specsavers’ 2015 Spectacle Wearer of the Year competition. As an ambassador for the brand, Longoria joins fellow judges comedian Jeremy Corbett and L’Oréal Professionnel Stylist Peter Dutton to find the country’s most stylish specs’ wearer. She follows in the footsteps of Sarah Michelle […]
Sarah Jessica Parker is the new face of Jordache for fall ’15
Jordache has announced that actress Sarah Jessica Parker is the new face for the Jordache Look and the Jordache women’s collection, with a new campaign photographed by Michael Thompson. ‘We are thrilled to have Ms Parker as the brand’s new face. We wanted someone who is not only a fashion icon, but also represents […]
Lucire TV: Nicky Hilton weds James Rothschild; Kylie Jenner goes icy blue; introducing Lorenza Izzo
Courtesy Paris Hilton Courtesy Barron Hilton Former Lucire cover girl Nicky Hilton, wearing a $100,000 Valentino wedding gown with a long train and custom-made Christian Louboutin heels, married banking heir James Rothschild at the Kensington Palace Orangery on Friday. There was only the tiniest glitch of her train getting caught under the wheels of the […]
News in brief: Chanel’s celebrities; Kate Upton gives Osmosis a thumbs-up; Mirto sees blue
Olivier Saillant With Lola Cristall’s Paris autumn–winter 2015–16 haute couture report just round the corner, we note that Chanel, as always, attracted itself a massive celebrity crowd. Wearing the house’s offerings from spring–summer 2015 and other collections were Vanessa Paradis, Kristen Stewart, Alice Dellal, Julianne Moore, Lily-Rose Depp, Geraldine Chaplin, Isabelle Huppert, Rinko Kiukchi, Lily […]
