5 posts tagged “publication”

It’s still in beta stage but fellow car nuts might want to check it out: Zak, Timothy?

www.autocade.net

   The idea is to build on the work of the late automotive writer, Michael Sedgwick, and to have more professionalism than one might find at Wikipedia. We do need some input on Japanese and American models.

Katharine McPhee at Too Faced benefit

[Cross-posted] With less on the newswires today except for more Sarko and Bruni, we thought we’d put up a few of the unpublished images from the Lucire server.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.

DieselCar

Vogue India cover

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[Cross-posted] As someone who has long championed the Asian subcontinent—and Lucire has been linking Indian and Pakistani sites as they came to light over the years—I was happy to see that Vogue India has made it on to newsstands. The new magazine is a milestone in the rise of the subcontinental fashion industry, which arguably has had a longer tradition than anything in the occident. It also signals a rise in global luxury brands entering India—something which I hope will soon be more of a two-day street.
   The cover, too, addresses concerns that I expressed in a blog post last week, on the ubiquity of the white model on catwalks. There has been some chatter about why Gemma Ward, a blonde, blue-eyed model, occupies a third of the cover, but the answer is fairly simple, I thought: Vogue India is evidently a magazine that appeals to the global nature of the Indian consumer. Her presence suggests that in a shot. But the international girl is usually quite desirable from a publisher’s or licensee’s eyes, too.
   As a man, I have to say that my eyes went to the other models first: Bipasha Basu, Priyanka Chopra, Monikangana Dutta, Preity Zinta and Laxmi Menon grace the cover and gatefold, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier. Perhaps it is the ubiquity that I wrote about, but the south Asian models are stunning.
   The domestic cover girl is very important, as we learned with Lucire Romania. The original cover girl—Karen Carreño—made less of an impact than the first Romanian to appear, Monica Gabor. 
   South Asia is a region that I am keen on getting in to with Lucire. My best wishes go to Priya Tanna and her team at Vogue India.

My second piece from Lucire licensed to Get Frank, appeared online at the Kiwi men’s site today. For those who want to know what it was like to drive a Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet, the review is up now.
   The guys from Get Frank started with a piece on the Aston Martin V8 Vantage. I’m still really proud of that one, as it’s a Goldfinger spoof. And when I say Goldfinger, I mean the novel. I decided we’d get it on to Lucire’s site today, though it was originally in print in April 2006. Surf on over to either site and let me know what you think. Ian Fleming might not be amused, but then he might forgive me after spinning in his grave with the release of Die Another Day.
   Mitch at Get Frank and I decided I would write some new pieces rather than re-run from Lucire, so watch this space.

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!