Forbidden fruit that’s fresh as ever
Literature that’s long been ripe for the picking (or picking-on) is harvested in earnest for the PEN Center, a literary organization advocating the freedom of expression around the world. Hollywood risk-takers like director John Landis, literature critic Tom Lutz, novelist Natasha Dean, and actors Rénée Felice Smith, Julian Sands, Kevin McKidd and Illeana Douglas […]
Jennifer Lawrence, Doutzen Kroes, Cheryl Cole, Eva Longoria at day four of the Cannes Film Festival
Updated with Jennifer Lawrence video on May 23, 2013, 2.06 p.m. GMT Ian Gavan/Getty Images Above In what must be her year, Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence was in Cannes to promote her new film, Catching Fire. It was another evening of celebrities at the 66th Festival de Cannes, the Cannes Film Festival, yesterday, with […]
Video: highlights from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2013 costume gala, including our favourites
BFAnyc.com for the Metropolitan Museum of Art The talk today at Lucire was the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual costume gala, and who was the best and worst dressed. Our friends at ITN had a slightly different view to us, as we felt that Kim Kardashian let the side down with an unflattering floral-print […]
Updated May 17, 2013 at 12.46 p.m. GMT with videos from Jennifer Keishin Armstrong In the 36 years since The Mary Tyler Moore Show ended, we’ve had snippets of information here and there: TV specials celebrating various anniversaries, articles when the release of the disappointing Mary & Rhoda TV movie appeared, and retrospectives when Mary […]
Jamie McCarthy/WireImage Jim Spellman/WireImage Jaeger-LeCoultre is pushing its film connections this week, too, honouring Barbra Streisand at the 40th anniversary Chaplin Award Gala at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Jaeger-LeCoultre has a multi-year partnership with the Society and recently launched its Filmmaker in Residence initiative. The partnership also covers the Society’s most prestigious […]
Beyoncé teases her Mrs Carter Show World Tour
April 25: Beyoncé releases ‘Beyoncé as Mrs Carter in H&M’—see her new video here H&M’s latest spokeswoman, Beyoncé, has teased her Mrs Carter Show World Tour with video clips. A month ago, Lucire revealed that the music star would be the Swedish retailer’s latest model. Since last year, most likely thanks to the influence […]
Round-up: G by Guess launches Fast & Furious 6 capsule; Madrubb shows Latex fashions for spring
Top A Fast & Furious 6 tie-in from G by Guess. Above Madrubb, the Madrid Latex fashion company, launches its spring–summer collection. The Fast and the Furious franchise might not be Lucire readers’ cup of tea, and our closest connection to it was when we featured actress and former Miss Israel Gal Gadot on our […]
Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko attend LA première of To the Wonder
Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko attended the Los Angeles première of their latest film, To the Wonder, directed by Terrence Malick, at the Pacific Design Center. Kurylenko was not the only Bond alum in the film: Spanish actor Javier Bardem also stars. McAdams, Affleck and Kurylenko had nothing but praise for […]
Google gets its warnings wrong: our sites do not have malware
Click here if you want to read the short version: a Q&A summary of what happened. Those of you using Chrome, and I understand some of you using Firefox, were unable to access this website because of Google misidentifying it as distributing malware. As those who know this publication realize, Lucire would never do […]
Sebastian Professional’s latest gift set to feature an exclusive Mara Hoffman scarf
Sebastian Professional has teamed up with fashion designer Mara Hoffman, which sees a Mara Hoffman for Sebastian custom scarf given away with its latest limited-edition designer gift set. The gift pack comprises the Sebastian Professional Volupt shampoo and conditioner, along with Hoffman’s scarf, which features bold colours and graphic prints, inspired by her own […]
