16 posts tagged “photography”
This video, from the Élysée, was taken yesterday when the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the First Lady arrived in London to meet HM Queen Elizabeth II and HH the Duke of Edinburgh. I wrote in a comment on Timothy’s Vox blog, after reading an article about it, that Mme Sarkozy did not know where to stand and tried to follow her husband and the Queen on the inspection. I was wrong: looking at this video, the First Lady knew exactly where to go and accompanied Prince Philip in her meet-and-greet. The Jacqueline Kennedy comparisons aren’t invalid.
And it seems the newly hyphenated Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is on her way to being the most photographed woman of 2008: her image sells political, fashion (she’s wearing Dior by John Galliano) and gossip media.
I cannot hide the fact that I was no fan of the Clinton presidency, though I admit Bill has said some sensible things after leaving office, but Fielding here on Vox managed to take some shots of Slick Willy that are fabulous. The former president was at a campaign function for his wife, and he snapped two shots.
One thing does come to mind: dammit, these Clintons know how to do visuals and sound bites darned well. Bill makes the posing look effortless and his dress sense is not so pompous as to frighten away people (a darn sight better than his missus’s pant-suits). Whatever you think of the Clintons, they are shrewd marketers and Bill is more an asset than a liability now that many people are beginning to look back at his years with rose-coloured glasses. And you know some stylist was paid thousands to choose the man’s wardrobe, and another guy was paid thousands to cut his hair, all to give that ‘Relax, the 1990s were good’ image.
People speak of the ‘Clinton machine’: they are understating things.
Similarly, Harold Wilson and Labour counted on rose-coloured glasses in the 1970s when getting re-elected into the UK, even though they had made a shambles of things in the 1960s.
Obama may be popular, but no one, on either side, should underestimate just what Chelsea’s Mom and Pop have in store. If visuals are the key, then everyone on the GOP side needs to pick up the slack.
[Cross-posted] With less on the newswires today except for more Sarko and Bruni, we thought we’d put up a few of the unpublished images from the Lucire server. Here are two that didn’t make publication for one reason or another: American Idol’s Katharine McPhee (mentioned by Summer Rayne Oakes in Lucire 20) at a skin cancer benefit hosted by Too Faced Cosmetics in May 2007; and, in the same month, two models at a Diesel function in the same area. These were from Lucire’s west coast editor Elyse Glickman.
[Cross-posted] 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.
As promised a few months ago, some shots of the Aston, DJY 864. I love this car. One of the shots on Vox will wind up in Lucire. And I should mention that these pics are copyright.
Greta Garbo, 1946, Cecil Beaton. (Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby's, London)
Putting out brush fires at Lucire last year prevented even inoffensive articles like this Cecil Beaton one run—so here it is, better late than never. The Christchurch Art Gallery was forgiving, I was less so on ourselves. But mistakes can be remedied.
We haven’t linked this publicly yet, but readers may enjoy a preview of an article on actress Ashley Scott, whom I interviewed last year. We didn’t get to use all the pictures by Andrew Matusik, and there was an error in the print edition on attribution, so the online one fixes these issues. In addition, we’ve updated the article slightly to reflect Ashley’s work on the TV series Jericho, currently screening on TV3 in New Zealand.
That means we have had three Lucire profiles this year on the website about celebrities with connections with the Carolinas. Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker has North Carolina roots, while Miss New Zealand Laural Barrett and Louisiana-born Ashley have South Carolina ones: Ashley was raised in Charleston, SC, and still believes the Holy City to be one of her favourite places.
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To get people in the mood for Miss Universe tonight (in the US on NBC, 9 p.m. EDT and delayed PDT), my article on Laural Barrett, Miss New Zealand 2007, is now online at the Lucire website. Photography is by London-based photographer Camille Sanson, with styling by Michiko Hughes. (We may run different ones in the print magazine.) I had wanted Laural to have a glance beforehand, but you can imagine that she’s full-on preparing for the pageant tonight. Good luck to “our Laural”: New Zealand is behind you!
It’s probably time we had another post at the fashion magazines’ group at Vox—this is the latest Lucire cover, shot by Eric Walkin. I’ve already had some good feedback on this one, including from Voxers, so thank you!
These may or may not be the next covers for Lucire. One is shot in Paris, the other in LA (Lost’s Elizabeth Mitchell, who plays Juliet). There are two more in the offing, and the cover lines haven’t been put on yet (though they will follow suggestions made by Voxers last month). Any preferences, bearing in mind that dark covers, traditionally, do not do as well in New Zealand?
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