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Peace Love Life reveals Burma T-shirts 2008-03-21 00:53:12 Brad Green at Peace
Love Life, who created a range of socially responsible T-shirts that we covered here, has launched a new range for Burma
. Brad says, ‘We’ve collaborated with a non-profit called ELEHO to raise money for the work they are doing in Burma. Again, we’re donating $10 from each shirt to the group [...]
George Clooney fashion line release an early April Fool gag? 2008-03-24 20:59:58 And it’s a hoax—as one reader, who sadly did not leave his or her name in the comments, suspected. GeorgeClooney
’s management has said that an email doing the rounds among the fashion media—we and Women’s Wear Daily at least received it—saying that the actor was launching a clothing line is a fake.
‘I have no [...] Read more:April
, George Clooney
George Clooney launches his own fashion line in Milano 2008-03-24 16:38:32 It had to happen sooner or later. Of all the celebs out there, GeorgeClooney
is particularly marketable, not just because of his looks, but because of his social activism. Thanks in part to his politician Dad Nick, the younger Mr Clooney is probably interested in more than acting.
At the Westin Palace in Milano
[...] Read more:George Clooney
Wearing Dior, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy wins over English fashion media 2008-03-26 16:36:23 The state visit of President Nicolas Sarkozy
of France to the United Kingdom has started off on a positive note, if the fashion media
there are any indication.
First Lady CarlaBruni
-Sarkozy was dressed in a Christian Dior grey coat (that grey—the one the fashion house itself made famous) with matching beret, accessorized with a black belt [...] Read more:English
, Carla Bruni
Ashes to Ashes DVD available for pre-order 2008-03-28 17:26:28 Fans of Ashes to Ashes can order the DVD of the first series from Amazon UK at £25·98, a £14·01 saving (click on image to get to the site). It becomes available
on May 5.
After last night’s finalé ended the first year on a high, with one of Keeley Hawes’s best performances, the second series, airing [...]
Clio meets Dauphine 2008-03-28 03:52:17 This photograph was shot for a motoring-and-travel story about the South Island, New Zealand in Lucire no. 26, but it’s one that won’t run in the print magazine as the quality’s not up to scratch. The light is far too strong, but I like the concept: the new Renault Clio meets an old Renault Dauphine. We [...]
Stanley Moss, get well 2008-03-28 00:51:33 Stanley Moss (left, pictured with designer Tadashi Shoji), travel editor of this title, CEO of the Medinge Group and well known branding expert, is recovering from surgery in California. We wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to him being up and about and motoring in his Chrysler Crossfire soon. Read more:Stanley
How I louvre to see you 2008-03-28 00:10:22 While Samantha Potes is covering Toronto Fashion Week for Lucire (welcome back, Samantha!), we did receive a release about Kolor Shades from Canada. They’ve just had their opening party in Toronto and sent us some great images from their shoot.
They’re very youthful and apparently these are the latest styles in eyewear, though older readers [...] Read more:louvre
Tyra Banks is not quitting Top Model 2008-03-27 23:58:05 Despite rumours that America’s Next Top Model Tyra Banks
and Jay Manuel aren’t speaking, Banks’s representatives has said that she is not quitting
the show.
Her departure would be unlikely since Banks herself has a stake in the series. Her company, Bankable Productions, produces the show, as well as her talk show, The Tyra Banks Show.
One rumour was [...]
‘So these two hermaphrodites walk into a gym …’ 2008-03-27 23:35:07 I wish that was a joke, but it isn’t.
I went to preview a New Dowse exhibition on transsexuality, intersexuality and the transgender community with its communications’ officer Mandy Herrick and coincidentally, was told by a friend last night about a situation at a gym in New Zealand.
They had two intersexual (‘hermaphrodite’) clients. Other patrons petitioned [...]
A high score from Blogged.com 2008-03-27 21:46:05 This was a nice email to get today:
Our editors recently reviewed your blog and have given it an 8.0 score out of (10) in the Entertainment category of Blogged.com.
This is quite an achievement!
We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style.
After carefully reviewing each [...]
Miss Universe New Zealand 2008: talk before you walk 2008-04-01 07:14:01 It’s pageant season all right.
In the last few days there has just been more discussion here at Lucire about the next Miss Universe
New Zealand
final, on April 20—about three weeks later than last year’s one.
As with 2007, we’ll be offering a prize of a feature that includes the winner. I’ve already had [...] Read more:Miss Universe
, New Zealand
Yes, we care 2008-04-01 00:05:17 I only learned belatedly that one of our readers, Mr Erik Api of Queenstown, New Zealand, passed away last year.
Erik was a hairdresser and one of our first print-edition subscribers. It’s very sad to lose any subscriber—because you feel you do have a bit of a kinship with your readers.
Maybe it struck me [...]
Talking car interviews Heidi Klum, David Hasselhoff for VW 2008-04-03 08:31:54 It’s not the new Knight Rider (which returns on NBC this year), but Max, a talking, black 1964 Volkswagen Käfer—Beetle to Anglophones—which will front a campaign for Volkswagen of America launching today called Das Auto.
Max will interview, in a talk show setting, supermodel Heidi
Klum, TV personality DavidHasselhoff
—who should have no problems conversing with a [...] Read more:Talking
, David Hasselhoff
Daniel Craig is Britain’s best dressed man—British GQ 2008-04-01 20:02:05 Daniel Craig
is tops in GQ poll. Pictured with girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell at the Academy Awards last year. (Photograph by Richard Harbaugh, copyright AMPAS. Used under licence.)
Footballer David Beckham divided reader opinions in Condé Nast poll (photo courtesy Adidas).
Condé Nast’s GQ has named James Bond actor Daniel CraigBritain
’s best dressed man in its UK [...] Read more:Daniel
, British
Heather Mills to co-judge Miss USA 2008-04-01 18:59:28 According to some sources, HeatherMills
will be a judge at Miss USA, joining Rob Schneider, actor–musician Joey Fatone, actress Kristian Alfonso, Olympic champion swimmer Amanda Beard, actress Kelly Carlson and San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman.
Donny and Marie Osmond will host the 57th annual pageant in Las Vegas.
Ms Mills recently won a [...] Read more:Heather Mills
2005: Summer Rayne Oakes’s first appearance in Lucire 2008-04-06 05:12:40 It’s been three years since Summer
Rayne Oakes first appeared in Lucire, as a feature interviewee rather than a member of the team. Since then, the association between the magazine and Ms Oakes has strengthened, with her taking the acting editor’s role in 2006 and as editor-at-large from 2007. Here are some shots from that [...] Read more:appearance
Farewell to Charlton Heston 2008-04-06 00:36:29 I know this is a fashion magazine, but through Elyse Glickman and Karen Loftus we cover so much of the Hollywood scene that you sometimes feel you should give a star a send-off. Therefore, today, I want to say goodbye to Charlton
Heston, who passed away aged 84 with his wife of 64 years, Lydia, [...] Read more:Farewell
Glamour UK puts Kate Moss back as Britain’s best dressed woman 2008-04-08 18:21:09 How reliable are these readers’ polls? The British edition of Glamour (May 2008) puts Kate Moss at number one for Britain
’s best dressed woman
, with Agyness Deyn not even making it into the top 50. It’s a switch from earlier polls, which had been putting Moss lower during the last four months.
Britney Spears was named worst [...]
Naomi Campbell banned from British Airways? 2008-04-08 18:07:45 Reports are coming from Agence France Presse and other wire services that NaomiCampbell
has been banned from flying BritishAirways
after her arrest last week.
The services are quoting The Sun and The Daily Mirror.
Campbell, 37, was arrested last week at Heathrow Airport after a dispute over her luggage at the infamous Terminal [...] Read more:Naomi Campbell
, British Airways
A free issue of Lucire—online now 2008-04-15 02:55:24 Each time we put out a Lucire in print, regardless of country, I wonder: do the folks in the countries (such as the UK) where the magazine is not available know what some of the layouts look like?
This time around, Laura and I decided we would do a 52 pp. downloadable PDF, containing some [...] Read more:issue
, online
Pageant time in Auckland 2008-04-17 07:05:03 Of course, I can’t whisper a word about the placings of the girls at Miss Universe New Zealand 2008 so far, but I will say a few general things. First, the judges work together really well and we welcomed designer Patrick Steel to the fold on the interview night tonight (joining Yvonne Brownlie, May Davis [...] Read more:Pageant
, Auckland
Miss Horowhenua, Samantha Powell, takes Miss Universe New Zealand 2008-04-20 11:15:56 Paraparaumu-born SamanthaPowell
, 20, representing Horowhenua, is the newly crowned Miss Universe
New Zealand
2008 in a ceremony at the Novotel Ellerslie, near Auckland City.
Hannah Matthews of Auckland, Miss Masport, is runner-up, followed by Rhonda Grant, Miss TR Designs of Palmerston North.
Miss Powell says, ‘It’s a real privilege and I’ll do [...]
Six Miss New Zealand ’08 contestants, one camera 2008-04-24 04:29:57 As promised, some better photos from last Saturday’s cruise with the Miss Universe New Zealand
2008 contestants from my Voigtländer Bessamatic, which shows that a 49-year-old camera can get some darned good results.
Samantha Powell (who would go on to win Miss New Zealand
2008, but Miss Horowhenua at this stage), Rebecca Connor (Miss Wellington, sponsored by [...]
Cruising to Waiheke with the Miss New Zealand ’08 contestants 2008-04-24 01:42:45 My scanner has gone kaput and I’m now three weeks in the process of getting it fixed. You know—ordering a part, having it arrive, finding it’s totally wrong (as in: the part does not even exist inside this model of scanner), and now, having a really annoying moiré effect on photographs that do not have [...] Read more:Zealand
, New Zealand
, Cruising
Dita von Teese, Cointreau collaborate on NYC show 2008-04-25 23:28:02 Click on centre of image to play
World-renowned burlesque performer Dita von Teese and Cointreau, the famous French orange liqueur, hosted a lavish debut party in New York for their first collaborative effort, the Be Cointreauversial Show at the Angel Orensanz Foundation at 172 Norfolk Street.
Over 500 guests turned out including Jason Lewis, Russell Simmons and [...]
New styles from Peace Love Life 2008-04-24 21:51:46 I’ve heard from Brad at Peace
Love Life, who has been doing T-shirts to help worthy causes around the world.
The latest range: to help raise money for various areas, in collaboration with Invisible Children (working in Uganda) and Sisters of Rwanda.
In Brad’s words, ‘I believe these are our most fashionable, yet most powerful [...]
Gotta get a bloomin’ move on 2008-04-24 21:36:41 This Mini Cooper S Clubman was my set of wheels when in Auckland. A great little car, and thanks to Piers, Kelly and Grant for their help at BMW. And thanks in addition to Kelly for sending back my Italian Job CD, which I left in the CD player. A full review in an upcoming [...] Read more:Gotta
Jennifer Lopez to star in reality show for TLC 2008-04-24 21:31:59 Jennifer Lopez
at the 2007 Golden Globes wearing a 30 ct yellow diamond Right Hand Ring by Lorraine Schwartz (courtesy Diamond Information Center/J. Walter Thompson).
Jennifer Lopez
will star in a reality
TV show for TLC in the US, it was announced today.
Lopez’s show centres around how the actress–singer–entrepreneur juggles her career with motherhood. She [...] Read more:reality show
Miscellaneous items on our desk 2008-04-27 07:11:28 There are only 8,000 each for him and for her of the Diesel Fuel for Life Special Edition bottles, launched December 2007—and if you search, you may still be able to find some at ‘exclusive sales outlets’. We had to mention it since we think this is the coolest looking bottle for the first part [...]
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