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One Lovely Blog Award!

2009-10-31T00:53:05Z

The loverly Sarah from Australia has awarded me this. I recently discovered her blog http://kiss--and--make-up.blogspot.com, and think she is possibly one of the most humble, gorgeous, and adorable bloggers I know. Also, for those of you who want to read my more rambling musings, you can check out http://sunkissedplumeria.blogspot.com . Whereas I use this blog for writing practice, that one will be more for my more..."creative" writings and photos etc. Speaking of my new blog...I have posted a Halloween look that goes along with a youtube video I made. Happy Halloween everyone and thanks again to Sarah!

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Thanks to the Parkers

2009-10-24T00:50:42Z

Here were the search terms taking folks to the Lucire ‘Insider’ section yesterday. The day before was similar, but instead of Heidi Klum, it was Vanessa Paradis. Celebrities, still, sell.

eva longoria london fog
heidi klum
eva longoria tony parker
london fog eva longoria
london fog eva
eva longoria tony parker london fog
eva and tony london fog
london fog eva longoria tony parker
eva longoria fog
london fog tony parker

The Parkers finally beat some long-standing records for searches for the Jaguar XJ launch (where Lucire published the first official unembargoed image of the new car) and a couple of other popular stories we did this year.

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I didn’t have this in my Flash Forward

2009-10-01T10:19:18Z

For the record, I did not start a discussion on Flash Forward because ABC is advertising it on the Lucire site:

Flash Forward advertised at Lucire

Though it is pretty cool that the ad is there. I never saw it last week, though I did happen across ads for other TV shows from this network.

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Emma Watson designs with People Tree

2009-09-20T18:41:59Z

Though she said No to personal fashion line claiming she wasn’t “interested in doing it for my own ego”, Harry Potter star and the highest grossing lead actress of the decade, Emma Watson added she would willingly design a line if it was “beneficial to a cause”, and looks like she’s found the cause she was looking for!

Emma Watson will launch her first Spring/Summer 2010 designer collection next February!

Emma-watson-people-tree-spring-summer-2010-collection

Emma teamed up with People Tree to create a capsule lifestyle collection with all the proceeds going to the People Tree Foundation, a charity which aims to school farmers and artisans on sustainable fashion through training and environmental initiatives.

Learn More…

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The background is just as interesting

2009-09-19T11:22:56Z

Photographing Doug with background key

Here’s a photo from the dinner we held in photographer Doug Rimington’s honour last Wednesday. Lucire’s Samantha Hannah and Tanya Sooksombatisatian are showing him photographs on their cameras. But anyone notice the background?
   At point (1) is a table of Wallabies. We are all at a Japanese restaurant and the boys have a little burner there because raw fish is too delicate for their stomachs. No wonder the All Blacks beat them tonight.
   At point (2) is a nervous young man meeting his girlfriend’s or fiancée’s parents for the first time.
   Dinner was entertaining for more reasons than the obvious.

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Looks better in the metal, and drives better still

2009-09-19T07:02:22Z

Thanks to Coby at Mercedes-Benz for my transport last week: a new E350 Coupé with Distronic (the cruise control system that slows down if the traffic in front slows). Lucire review to follow. It looks much better in the metal than in the photos (where it looks fussy and rear-heavy). In fact, of all the coupés I have driven, I really began to feel “at home” with this one.

Mercedes-Benz E350 Coupé front three-quarters

Mercedes-Benz E350 Coupé rear view

Mercedes-Benz E350 Coupé rear beak

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iPhone and Blackberry Fashion Apps

2009-09-18T11:33:21Z

The pace of application development for smartphones such as the iPhone and Blackberry (and Android) continues apace, and now the fashion industry has its own set of Apps that enable you to follow the latest trends on the catwalk and beyond.

Here are our pick of some of the best available for both platforms:

iPhone Fashion Apps

Nett-App: Net-A-Porter's free fashion application - a pretty slick app which keeps you informed of the latest styles - as you can see from the video..........

NET-A-PORTER ON THE GO. NEW iPHONE APP

Style.com - Keep up to date with the latest gossip and fashion events from the Style File

Style.com iPhone App Review - AppVee.com

Also worth a look.............

D&G Fashion Channel Winter 2010
The Ralph Lauren Collection
Donna Karan
Lucky magazine
Lookz Lite
Stylish Girl

See the full range at the iPhone Apps page.

Blackberry Fashion Apps

Fashion News Service by 360Fashion - Describes itself as "the latest insider fashion news service from professionals working within the industry. Check the catwalks of New York, Milan, Paris, London, and Beijing, to see what goes on behind the scenes! Insider information, is the key to know what's really happening in the fashion industry."

Fashion Mogul - This fun App lets you design and develop your own Fashion Boutique

Elle Magazine - Various Blackberry Apps are available from Elle

Shoewawa - One of the top fashion blogs for years has its own application where you can customise the blog to your hearts content

London Fashion Week - The latest news and views from the catwalks of one of the most influential fashion shows

See more Blackberry Fashion Applications.

Also, those with an Android enabled phone may want to keep an eye on the fast-growing Android App Marketplace where there are likely to be some applications appearing in time.

If there are any apps that we have missed (highly likely!) - please give us a shout - thanks!

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Fall/Winter Trends 2009/2010

2009-09-17T20:31:17Z

Time passes so quickly that we often don’t notice how seasons change each other. But if you are a woman of fashion you have to go step in step with seasons as the fashion industry does.

Trends for the fall 2009 and winter 2010 are not much different from what we had the previous time but still there are some new things to mention here.

Fall-winter-trends-2009-2010-sweatertunic

Remembering 9-11 at Lucire, eight years on

2009-09-11T14:27:04Z

I was going to get an early night, but really couldn’t let the day pass without writing an editorial about 9-11. I remember going to bed in the small hours of September 12 (NZST) thinking that nothing was happening. Was I ever wrong. By 6 a.m., a friend had already called me to tell me what had happened in New York and the Pentagon.
I put it up at Lucire, since most of (our) September 12, 2001 revolved around fashion, both at New York Fashion Week and the Wellington Fashion Festival. Your thoughts on the piece are welcome.

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At least when we have bugs, we act

2009-09-06T13:31:55Z

I have written to the creator of the WP-Cufón plug-in for Wordpress about this bug, which caused some missing characters at the Lucire website today:

No ligatures in WP-Cufón

It turns out that the ligatures (such as the ﬁ character) are missing from the Javascript version of my JY Fiduci typeface family which we converted. Upon discovering this, I disabled the Cufón plug-in so that the text could display normally, albeit in whatever typeface the reader has on the receiving end.
At least when we have bugs, I act on them (hello, Facebook?).
But the above video is a great one. Click here to have a view of it—and watch it right to the end, if you don’t know how it ﬁnishes. I also put it here on Vox.

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