Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Strength and Grace commemorates 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage
Ross Brown The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Strength and Grace season commemorates the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, the first country where women won the right to vote. Four female choreographers will première works for the season, curated by RNZB artistic director Patricia Barker. The season also marks the company’s 65th […]
Stoa a deeply thoughtful Choreographic Season from the New Zealand School of Dance
Stephen A’Court Above, from top: The entrance. Jack Jenkins’ Continuity in Disruption, with the second- and third-year contemporary dance students. Nadiyah Akbar in Sebastian Gittings’ Phyllis. The New Zealand School of Dance’s Choreographic Season, which sees its students create their own choreography in collaboration with composer and sound designer Te Aihe Butler, is again a […]
Aēsop opens Wellington, New Zealand store; H&M confirms Commercial Bay, Auckland, for August 30
Bottom image: Wellington City Council Archives Aēsop, the Australian skin care company, has launched its Wellington concept store at the corner of Featherston Street and Brandon Street. New Zealand may be its neighbour, but the Australian company has been opening locations in some of the biggest cities in the world—London, Paris, New York and […]
DedCool, the unisex, vegan, cruelty-free fragrance brand, launches in New Zealand
Jack Yan DedCool has launched in New Zealand, and is available now via Mooma. The brainchild of Los Angeles entrepreneur Carina Chazana, the DedCool fragrances are vegan, cruelty-free, and non-toxic. Chazana, whose parents are behind La Natura, had been experimenting with natural beauty products since childhood, creating her first fragrance at 13. Mooma’s […]
The Last Dance is the pièce de résistance in Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Dancing with Mozart
Stephen A’Court Top: Dancers representing the Antarctic near the beginning of The Last Dance. Centre: Katherine Minor and Fabio Lo Guidice in Petite Mort. Above: Tristan Gross and Massimo Margaria in Sechs Tänze. The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Dancing with Mozart had its première in a different location: at the State Opera House, rather than […]
Fog and Stone announces luxurious, sustainable pyjama range in pure Egyptian cotton
Lucire is UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner. Fog and Stone’s range of sustainable pyjamas is New Zealand-made, and the label is particularly proud of it. Founders Christina Goss and Justine Vanstone see Fog and Stone as part of the ‘slow fashion’ movement, with a high-quality pyjama range made from sustainably grown 100 per […]
Video: remembering Buoy’s Derek Elvy
Angela Henderson, retouching by Andrew Edwards As a tribute to Buoy founder Derek Elvy, whose memorial took place at the Pines in Wellington today, Lucire has been granted permission to show these two videos of ‘the king of avant-garde’. Filmed by SIK Productions late in 2017, and presented with their and Buoy’s blessing, they feature […]
Ten weeks ago, I received an Instagram message from Lorraine Downes, whom most Kiwis will know as our only winner at Miss Universe (in 1983). I knew she had been working on a memoir, and before she could even tell me what it was about, I wrote back to say I would love a copy […]
With a première in Wellington on May 31, and other centres through June and July, the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Dancing with Mozart features George Balanchine’s Divertimento 15, and Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort and Sechs Tänze. Corey Baker’s The Last Dance, the first ballet created in Antarctica, will also feature as part of Dancing with […]
Holden’s New Zealand dealers launch the 2018 Commodore
Above, from top: Johnston Ebbett on Taranaki Street, Wellington. Looking very modern: the base model Holden Commodore LT. For the lifestyle buyer, the Holden Commodore Calais V Tourer, with 320 PS. The potent Holden Commodore VXR, which originally joined us on the media launch. The Holden Commodore, for which Lucire attended the media launch earlier […]
