Taylor Swift is music industry’s biggest earner, says Billboard
Royal Caribbean Above Taylor Swift performing on Allure of the Seas, last year. Swift, the biggest earner in music in 2011 in the US, got to the top slot through sales, royalties and touring. Below left Swift’s highly successful Speak Now album. Billboard has put 22-year-old country star Taylor Swift in top spot as the […]
Lacoste Live heads to Brooklyn for spring 2012 campaign
A Lucire special promotion Mark Hunter Last September, Lacoste took its Live campaign to Berlin. This season, for spring 2012, it’s Brooklyn, New York, with a campaign featuring street tape artist Aakash Nihalini, Amanda Warner from the electro duo MNDR and Leyla Safai from the punk–hip-hop group HeartsChallenger. It’s fitting, too, that the spring […]
Stine Riis wins H&M Design Award 2012, showing at Stockholm Fashion Week
Above Stine Riis, winner of the H&M Design Award. København native Stine Riis, a 28-year-old graduate of the London College of Fashion, has been announced as the winner of the first Hennes & Mauritz Design Award. Her winning collection, called Decadence & Decay, was shown on the catwalk at Stockholm Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week earlier today. […]
We’ll Take Manhattan: the impact of David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton revisited
Bailey, copyright ©1965 by the Condé Nast Publications (UK) BBC/Kudos Compare the pair. Top Jean Shrimpton, as she appeared in Vogue shot by Bailey in 1965. Above Karen Gillan and Aneurin Barnard as Jean Shrimpton and David Bailey in a publicity shot for We’ll Take Manhattan, which aired last week on BBC4. The visitor stats […]
News round-up: keep your eye on Undone; Napoleon’s skin primer goes for gold
Above Dunedin, New Zealand’s Undone is the latest new label to keep an eye on. Elise Barnes and Rachel Webb are the talented designers behind young New Zealand label Undone. After studying fashion together at Otago Polytechnic, the two decided on a joint venture, after each being invited to show a collection at ID Fashion […]
Mercedes-Benz launches C-Klasse coupé in Japan with Fashion Week designers
Mercedes-Benz Japan Above Mercedes-Benz Japan President and CEO, Nicholas Speeks, and Vice President, Kintaro Ueno, at the C-Klasse Coupé launch at Fashion Week. Mercedes-Benz presented its new C-class coupé for the Japanese market on the 17th, at a press event held right after Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week of Tokyo kicked off. CEO and President of […]
Let’s not forget Boston, Madrid, Berlin and Miami—with Cambodia and Vancouver on the way
Cirestudios Top !Nu.I, one of the notable labels at Boston Fashion Week’s Emerging Trends Show. Above Linda Rowe Thomas. It wasn’t all about the major cities. Among them was Boston Fashion Week’s Emerging Trends Show, from which Lucire, as an official media partner, has coverage today. New and emerging talent from around the world showed […]
Lacoste Live takes campaign to Berlin
A Lucire special promotion The Lacoste Live campaigns, which some readers will have seen on this site, has shifted to another cool location for autumn–winter 2011–12: Berlin. Lacoste Live—or L!ve, to use the brand’s own moniker—is the company’s youth-oriented line, and was characterized in its first season with photography by American photographer Mark Hunter, […]
R&G names model search winners; Kagi launches Spectrum jewellery range
Top Alistair Boyd, Krystian Heath, Kitty Riddell and Rosie Herdman, R&G’s model search winners. Above The Kagi Forever Loyal pendant and short black agate necklace, retailing for NZ$298. R&G—the younger arm of Rodd & Gunn—chose four winners for its Face of R&G model search at its concept store launch party last night. The winners […]
Coventry grads, working with Gavin Douglas, see work head to Caribbean Fashion Week
Above Designer Gavin Douglas with Coventry University graduates. Five Coventry University graduates will see their input on the catwalk at Caribbean Fashion Week, running from June 8 to 13 in Kingston, Jamaica. The graduates, under an internship programme, had worked on Birmingham designer Gavin Douglas’s spring–summer 2012 collection, which will be shown at the […]
