The Body Shop’s Body Yogurt range a treat for Christmas
It is the season for special edition scents: introducing the Body Shop’s Body Yogurt range including Rich Plum, Warm Vanilla and Juicy Pear. These ultra-lightweight and fast-absorbing yogurts are perfect for Christmas. They are best applied after a shower, locking in moisture and leaving your skin enriched with a fruity scent that lingers. The […]
Oaks Wellington Hotel opens on Courtenay Place, in the heart of New Zealand’s capital
Mauro Risch Photography Jack Yan The Oaks Wellington Hotel, which opened Monday, is located in an ideal spot in the capital city of New Zealand. Ask Wellingtonians which hotels spring to mind, and they’ll often be in the Featherston Street area—ideal for events such as the World of Wearable Art and the waterfront, but […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Hansel & Gretel: a family ballet where creativity fires on all cylinders
Nicola Edmonds Stephen A’Court Garth Badger; make-up by Kiekie Stanners Hansel & Gretel, the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s newest production, answers an important question: what can be made when you have every creative firing on all cylinders? Here we have Loughlan Prior (right) with his first full-length ballet, based on the Grimm Brothers’ collected […]
Re-examining our mission as Lucire turns 22
Some of you may have seen the above montage (reproduced below for those who may be browsing on different devices) in our social media. These are our covers over the last 15 years—we branched out into print seven years after we started. Back then, it was unusual for a website to spawn print editions, and […]
Double WOW: Rinaldy Yunardi wins World of Wearable Art Supreme Award for the second time
Stephen A’Court Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Above: Rinaldy Yunardi’s The Lady Warrior nets the designer his second Supreme Award at WOW. Indonesian designer Rinaldy Yunardi becomes the third person—after last year’s sisters Natasha English and Tatyanna Meharry—to win the Supreme Award at the World of Wearable Art awards (WOW) in Wellington tonight. In the 32-year […]
Stephen A’Court The 21st century is full of reimaginings. We see movie series rebooted with new actors and, often, new plots. Producers insist they’re not remaking things, but reimagining them. They take something that we might already know well, and put a twist on it. And if that’s in the Zeitgeist for film, then it […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s The Nutcracker gets into a festive mood
Stephen A’Court Top image: Nicholas Schultz as Herr Drosselmeier and Katherine Minor as Marie Stahlbaum. Above, from top: Fabio Lo Giudice as the Nutcracker Prince, before he wins his fight against the Mouse King. Katherine Minor and Fabio Lo Giuduce. The waltz of the flowers. Almost to the day eight years ago, we reviewed the […]
Natasha English and Tatyanna Meharry pick up their second World of Wearable Art Supreme Award
Stephen A’Court Above, from top: Supreme winner, War Story, by Natasha English and Tatyanna Meharry, Christchurch, New Zealand. Tar’White by Ali Middleton of Wellington, coming third in the Aotearoa section. Quantum, by Annabelle Widmann, winner of the Cirque du Soleil Invited Artisan Award. Two sisters from Christchurch, New Zealand, Natasha English and Tatyanna Meharry, have […]
Ross Brown The Royal New Zealand Ballet premièred four new works tonight at the State Opera House, marking 125 years of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, the first country where women won the right to vote. Introduced by artistic director Patricia Barker, who had personal connections with each of the choreographers, the Strength & […]
On the Wellington high street: Mecca opens a new mega-store, while David Jones previews spring
What once housed the defunct Topshop in Wellington, New Zealand is now beauty mega-store Mecca. Combining the Cosmetica and Maxima concept stores, Mecca’s new 435 m² space will be the first of its kind in New Zealand, with offerings of over 100 exclusive brands. The open-plan design by O’Neil Langan also houses Mecca’s […]
