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Maybelline appoints Jessica White as new spokesmodel 2007-12-10 09:07:56 Model JessicaWhite
, a Brooklyn, NY native best known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and, from 2006, on the Victoria’s Secret catwalk, has been appointed the new face of Maybelline. White said in a release today that she was delighted to represent African–American women and the Maybelline brand, alongside her idol Christy Turlington. More in the online edition of Lucire today.
Summer Rayne at Live Earth 2007-12-10 02:27:08 Lucire editor-at-large Summer
Rayne Oakes discusses eco-fashion and responsibly produced beauty products at Earth
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, in this video posted to YouTube over the weekend.
Missing the holey table 2007-12-09 22:38:05 In Lucire issue 24, one of my criticisms about the Quadrant Hotel in Auckland was directed at the table. This table is full of holes as an arty feature. Not a good idea: keys, cards and Strepsils kept falling through the holes.
Quadrant sales and marketing director Penny Evans wrote me today to note that the Quadrant’s new one-bedroom executive apartments have glass-topped tables. They have separate work desks and the internet signal is superior, she tells me.
They certainly look nicer, as the photo shows—though the regular rooms’ interior design was not actually bad. It’s just that that darned table won few prizes for practicality. I might test-drive the rooms in 2008. Read more:Missing
New watches from TAG Heuer, Maria Sharapova 2007-12-09 18:16:03 TAG Heuer brand ambassador, tennis champion Maria
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, presented several new women’s watches
yesterday (Dec. 8) in Miami from the company’s Professional Sports Watch, Carrera and Formula 1 series.
The Professional Sports Watch is ‘inspired’ by Sharapova, and is made of ultra-light titanium and able to absorb 5 kg of shock. It is available in anthracite or the tennis player’s ‘signature pink’.
The Ladies’ Carrera is in the same pink and is designed for the woman who ‘shares TAG Heuer’s driving passion.’
Finally, the Formula 1 Chronograph with Diamonds blends sports functionality with glamour, embellished with 120 diamonds (0·75 ct.) on the bezel and 11 diamonds (0·081 ct.) on the dial.
Ultimate Style: what’s in with fall coats 2007-12-09 06:19:12 Beginning today, Lucire will be bringing you clips from Mystyle.com’s UltimateStyle
, presented by Daisy Fuentes and Jai Rodriguez. Keep watching for the clips on our home page, or watch this blog for updates. Our first one’s on fall coats, as we join Daisy, Jai and the team at Ann Taylor Loft.
The making of a Lucire cover 2007-12-08 22:08:23 I know some readers are fascinated about how a cover takes shape at Lucire. Again, before these go into the archives, we present the making
of the shoot from issue 24.
Make-up with Emma Foley
Photographer Kelly Thompson discusses the shoot
Vanilla works on the hair
Thompson shoots Kenzy Cheeseman
If you have been following this blog, then you’ll recognize Kelly Thompson’s name as the illustrator who exhibited her Women of Your Dreams works at Good as Gold last week. The exhibition is still on for those in Wellington, down at Good as Gold in Victoria Street.
Credits for ‘Hypnotize’
Photographer Kelly Thompson
Stylist Laura Ming-Wong/sweetCHILLI
Hair Vanilla
Make-up Emma Foley/Vanilla
Models Emma Weenik/Clyne, Zippora Seven/Red 11, Kenzy Cheeseman/the Agencie
Stylist’s assistant Ephrem Hannah
Assistants Lucy Aitchison, Alex Bull
Doug Rimington shoots Nicky and Paris Hilton, Heidi Klum 2007-12-08 21:48:03 When we ran our tribute to Doug Rimington last month, we forgot to run some of his celebrity photographs. So, before they are archived in our DVD library, here are a couple from New York back in 2006 for your enjoyment. One is of Lucire cover alum NickyHilton
with sister Paris
Hilton at Heatherette—Doug always seems to be great at capturing the moment—and the other is Heidi
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in her Project Runway capacity. Both images are copyright.
Doug is still flat-hunting in Sydney if anyone wants to offer tips. Read more:shoots
Keds announces campaign with Mischa Barton 2007-12-07 08:02:49 Mischa Barton
is still hot property, even though her role on The OC has long finished, particularly with the younger set.
Keds has announced that Barton is its new face for its line of spring 2008 sneakers, with the campaign having launched in New York earlier this week.
The release notes, ‘The theme of the new campaign, Be True, is inspired by old Hollywood glamour along with Keds’ classic Hollywood heritage, as noted icons Katherine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn were devoted fans of the brand. Aptly, it was shot on a reconstructed movie set mirroring back lots of iconic films shot throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Photographed by world renowned fashion photographer Anne Menke and styled by Nikki Brewster, the shoot features Barton in the new spring 2008 collection, posing for her close-up, relaxing on set and enjoying the spotlight.’
The campaign, with 10 layouts, breaks February and is expected to run in Lucky, Glamour, Vogue, Teen Vogue and InSt Read more:Mischa Barton
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Audi readies A3 Cabriolet for February launch 2007-12-07 04:58:02 Audi has done well with Lucire’s annual Car to Be Seen in, being its inaugural winner at the turn of the century. And its latest model, the A3 Cabriolet, could fare well when it hits streets in February
2008 in Germany.
It’s more cohesive in appearance than the A4 Cabriolet, which I had the pleasure of driving in March. The A4 I had was the car assigned to Audi marketing manager Rachel Jones, so I felt rather privileged—especially as I was putting ks on to it before she could.
When I was in Christchurch testing the S5, I was pleased to note that the boss at the city’s Audi dealer, Archibalds on Manchester, Eric Swinbourne, was a fan of compact cars, especially the A3. We shared a view that it was a lot harder making a decent small car than a decent big one, in terms of packaging and cost. And he was enthusiastic about the A3’s arrival—and I can see why.
The A4 Cabrio will in essence be replaced by two cars: the A3 you see here and an A5 model next year
Isabella Blow cause of death official 2007-12-06 18:48:31 Connected to the next print issue of Lucire: it was sad to note that the earlier suspicions that Tatler contributing editor Isabella
Blow had drunk Paraquat, the weed killer, have now been confirmed by the Gloucestershire coroner.
Mrs Blow had drunk half a pint, 10 times the fatal amount, and had concerns over her ‘waning celebrity status’, something that those who know her had hinted at when we researched our story.
Her psychiatrist, Dr Ian Pannell, had spoken with her prior to her suicide. He told the coroner’s court, ‘She had a perception of a waning career with attendant uncertainties about how she would support herself.’
Mrs Blow’s successful suicide attempt was one of many during her lifetime, and followed the method used by her father-in-law. Her grandfather, Sir Jock Delves Broughton, had also committed suicide after being acquitted of the ‘White Mischief’ murder. Read more:death
Thanks to StyleInn; others welcome 2007-12-06 18:28:10 We have never done much promoting of the Lucire blog, but we are quite happy for blogging networks to syndicate our RSS feed. We’ve noted that the nice folks at StyleInn have started including Lucire: Insider as part of their coverage, as have others, and welcome them. A Feedburner link is at the top right of the screen (the usual RSS orange logo) and the regular Wordpress one is in the middle column of this screen. Read more:Thanks
Eva Mendes shows cheeky PETA campaign 2007-12-06 18:19:14
On the Lucire site today: the glamorous and very curvy actress Eva Mendes
stars in the new PETA ‘I’d rather go naked than wear fur’ campaign.
Lucire is known to many animal cruelty campaigners and to PETA for its continual support of their causes, so unlike some publications covering the story, we practise what the organization preaches ourselves in our daily lives.
Unfortunately, being objective we sometimes feature fur in our catwalk reports, but we are always conscious of our own beliefs, so we try to balance it whenever possible with promotions for PETA.
You can read our story online, or head over to the PETA blog where there’s a full Q&A with Eva.
Wellington’s fashionable crowds 2007-12-06 17:20:49 If you were clever and in Wellington
, New Zealand, you could have made two events scheduled for the same time last night. Kelly Thompson, the first New Zealander to shoot a retail Lucire cover, had an illustration exhibition opening at Good as Gold on Victoria Street (on till the end of December). Last night she already managed to sell 13 of her works.
Zambesi, meanwhile, launched the Samsung U700v cellphone at its Wellington store, following a similar launch in Auckland at Vulcan Lane.
When I left Kelly’s opening for Zambesi, I noticed she was attracting a more arty crowd, while Zambesi got in fashionistas and a selection of customers, with four models (two friends, Sarah Garlick and Cadbury Dream Model Search ’07 finalist Jordan James among them) walking about talking up the ‘Zambesi presents Samsung U700v’ phone. For the Findlays, four members of the family had come from Auckland to attend, including Marissa Findlay, whose photographic work appeared in Lucire
Roberto Cavalli, viva forever 2007-12-04 17:36:02 Roberto
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is in the news a lot these few weeks: his Spice Girls costumes made it to the front page of the Lucire site yesterday. And, a reminder: this is always open to discussion both here on this blog and in our Reader Forum (registration required on the latter).
Patrick Dempsey the new face of Versace 2007-12-04 05:35:30 Patrick Dempsey
of Grey’s Anatomy—let’s also not forget Loverboy and Meatballs III—is the new face of Versace’s men’s line, according to the fashion house. Donatella Versace said to the press, ‘He has that confidence, completely comfortable in his own skin, that is so attractive.’ Mr Dempsey’s campaign has already been shot by Mario Testino and breaks early in the New Year. Read more:Patrick
Dress My Nest: feng shui and clutter 2007-12-21 07:49:23 Clutter and feng shui are connected, according to Jayme Barrett in this segment from MyStyle.com's Dress My Nest. On today's Lucire home page.
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When beige is bad 2007-12-20 15:31:40 Beige is a bad interior-design default colour, says Dress My Nest's Thom Filicia in our latest segment on the online cover of Lucire.
Build the bob: Ultimate Style and Ken Paves try it out 2007-12-19 05:10:21 Would you go short? The bob is the "it" hairstyle for 2007 and probably the beginning of 2008, and UltimateStyle
convinces one woman to try it out at the Ken Paves salon. The video airs today on the Lucire home page.
Read more:Build
Thom Filicia dispels myth no. 6 2007-12-18 10:47:20 I know we started with no. 2, then no. 12, and we are now on no. 6 on Thom Filicia's Dress My Nest tips—but that's the order we've been given permission to post them in. As of last night, Thom has been dispelling another interior-decorating myth on our home page: that furniture has to be up against the wall.
The Sarkozy-Bruni romance is in the Zeitgeist 2007-12-18 04:01:49 Nicolas Sarkozy
, the President of France, is enjoying a heck of a publicity honeymoon. First, he won the election. Then, he went to the US and gave a speech to the Joint Houses that had everyone from Dubya to Hillary applauding. His speech citing Israeli-Palestinian peace a few days ago was largely well received. And now, with news that he and model-singer Carla Bruni
are romantically involved (according to L'Express, referencing the cover story from Point de Vue tomorrow) has brought Sarko into the realm of the gossip press (Bruni has been linked to Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton), as well as those of us who normally report on fashion.
   Funny, I was reading about Ms Bruni a few days ago prior to any conï¬rmation of her dating, so she is in the Zeitgeist
as well. Do we media build these things up? I used to wonder before I was this involved.
   The answer is no, at least not initially. I wish it were yes and I could paint some story about a conspiracy. But there is a Zeit
Thom Filicia dispels myth no. 12 2007-12-18 03:15:03 Thom Filicia uses a good fashion analogy here in his latest design tip on our home page today. Myth no. 12: there's no need for there to be a single pattern in a room. This one should make immediate sense to anyone browsing this site.
Cadillac heads Down Under 2007-12-14 01:06:00 [Cross-posted] Cadillac
will head Down Under, according to General Motors-Holden's boss Chris Gubbey.
  It makes sense: the brand is well known despite not having retailed here postwar, thanks to American media, President Bush and The Matrix Reloaded. GM has been making right-hand-drive Caddys for some time for the Japanese and the British. And with Saab as the only premium GM brand here (if you do not count Hummer) and Holden now retailing Daewoos in most passenger car classes below the Commodore, the American company does lack something in the snob sector.
  Saab is not really for snobs, anyway: they are for people who want a safe, Swedish car on old Opel Vectra platforms. Cadillac will have some cachet, even if American cars tend to have far worse interiors than their European counterparts. In other words, snobbery is all well and good, but even snobs will want good value. Otherwise, I can think of a very nice Audi A4 or A6 that they can consider.
  I have not driven th
Thom Filicia dispels myth no. 2: that all furniture must match 2007-12-13 05:43:26 Here's today's MyStyle.com clip. I love how Thom Filicia from Dress My Nest dispels another myth about interior design. This episode's myth: all furniture should match. Thom says, "Cobblers!' (Not that exact word: his statements are far better, as you'll see below.)
Summer Rayne Oakes one of Amica’s top 20 trend-setters 2007-12-12 23:27:09
I think it's way cool when another magazine calls one of your own one of its 20 most influential trend-setters under 40. And this is out of a global sample of people. Congratulations, Summer
Rayne, for making it into Amica's list! It's much deserved—and yet another example of how we've been ahead of the curve.
Hayden Panettiere speaks on environmental literacy 2007-12-12 04:50:02 This is a clip with HaydenPanettiere
from Heroes, where she speaks very briefly about the environment. I'm not entirely sure of the context—sometimes we just get links to these things—but I assume it's the end of a speech. I do know this is part of the Forecast Earth Summit which the Weather Channel hosted.
Read more:environmental
, Hayden Panettiere
, literacy
People’s best and worst of 2007 2007-12-25 16:54:24
In today's video, People's Ericka Souter discusses her magazine's end-of-year double issue featuring the best and worst of 2007. Patrick Dempsey is the stand-out celebrity, and makes the cover as "Star of the Year'. Inside, there's an interview with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.
  In addition, People pays tribute to eight other celebrities:
Amy Adams: the Breakout
Katherine Heigl: America’s New Sweetheart
Carrie Underwood: the Chart Topper
Tyler Perry: the Triple-Threat
Matt Damon: the Sexiest Hero
Johnny Depp: Most Versatile Actor
Christina Applegate: Comeback of the Year
Tyler Perry: the Triple-Threat
Will Smith: the Biggest Legend
  We'd say People's pretty on the ball with their picks as 2007 draws to a close. Now, who will be the stars of 2008? We wonder.
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