The Heart Truth campaign has seen the Coca-Cola Company create newly designed packaging for Diet Coke to commemorate the soft drink manufacturer’s fifth-year support of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) campaign, to promote heart disease awareness. Diet Coke has also participated in numerous awareness-raising programmes to aid the campaign over the last few months. Lucire has covered many of the Heart Truth’s Red Dress shows since their inception in 2002, and the latest, for fall 2012, will see five Diet Coke fans join the celebrity models on February 8.
Diet Coke ambassador Minka Kelly (above) will be on the catwalk this week in a custom Diane von Furstenberg red dress.
Fans had showed their support on Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram, hashtagging photographs of themselves with #ShowYourHeart. The five best photographs were selected, and Kelly chose one grand prize winner—who got a shopping spree with a style expert—from them.
Extending the Twitter campaign, Coca-Cola will donate $1 to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) for every re-Tweet of the Diet Coke Heart Truth post on February 8, with an upper limit of $100,000.
Coca-Cola will release a special Diet Coke package for February featuring a promotional graphic (left), while over 6,000 million packages will feature the Heart Truth logo through the year.
Von Furstenberg has also created a limited-edition collection of Diet Coke aluminium bottles, featuring her prints, for sale at her stores and at dvf.com through February. Proceeds go to the FNIH, in support of the Heart Truth and women’s heart health research and educational programmes.
Diet Coke will also promote heart health programmes with Subway, which will donate $50,000 toward heart health research and educational programmes. Subway will donate up to an additional $50,000, for every photograph uploaded to Twitter with the hashtag #SubwayHeartTruth.
Lucire’s coverage of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo is online today in the main part of the website. Not content with bringing back the event after a cancellation earlier in 2011 due to the earthquake and tsunami, peripheral events, including an international edition of Fashion’s Night Out with all 17 Vogue editors, made sure that the event made big headlines.
In addition, the Japan Fashion Week Organization will run Tokyo Fashion Week in Italy at the Pitti Immagine Uomo exhibition from January 10. This exhibition is for menswear. This is a business-to-business event, not open to the public.
Japanese designers continue to make a splash globally. Featured designers from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo will collaborate and showcase as Leather Japan 2012 at New York Fashion Week. The presentation event will be held on February 13; an exhibition will follow at the Nexus showroom in New York from February 14 to 16.
It’s official: Giuseppe Mascoli’s new London burger joint, the Bukowski Grill, is receiving guests. Well worth an expedition to Shoreditch, a quarter of the city not often seen by tourists. These burger concoctions offer a reasonable alternative to the snobby high-end fare at downtown eateries, and the people-watching can’t be beat.
We’ve also seen in 2012 with our review of the BMW X5, part one of our Vancouver Fashion Week coverage, and new original photographs and layout for our earlier Mini Cooper D road test.—Yuka Murai, and Stanley Moss, Travel Editor
While we assemble our in-depth New York Fashion Week stories and specials, Lucire photographer Stephen Ciuccoli wanted to share with readers some of his shots from the shows at Lincoln Center.
Vivenne Tam, moved by her zen garden at her apartment, showed an elegant collection, with clear inspiration from the plant life, water and space there. Orchid and petal appliqués, fioral and bamboo prints, and coral and ocean blue hues marked out Tam’s spring–summer 2012 collection.
Helen Yarmak still showed sumptuous furs but knows when to tone things down while times are tough, showing dresses, ponchos and chunky knitted sweaters for spring.
Farah Angsana also looked to the east for inspiration in a return to form this season, with delicious beaded evening gowns, embroidered dresses and kimono jackets. Her inspiration came from a painting that Angsana saw in a Shanghai art gallery, tempering the oriental influences with western sensibilities.
There’ll be more from Custo Barcelona in our pages, but, in the meantime, we’re whetting your appetite with one of Custo Dalmau’s most wearable collections—but he’s lost none of the trade-mark pizazz with psychedelic prints, sequins and ruffles.
Last but not least, designer Rafael Cennamo really impressed us. He is established but spring 2012 was the first collection he showed at New York Fashion Week. He showed a tightly edited connection, inspired by collectible dolls. Again, there was a sense of glamour to the collection, thanks to Cennamo’s use of lace, tulle and beading.
Every September 11, I feel compelled to write an editorial about that September 11. New York Fashion Week was on, just as it is now, and I was back at HQ in New Zealand, mere weeks after being in NYC myself.
Seventeen hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time, our September 11, 2001 passed uneventfully. I even turned the TV off minutes before the first jet hit the World Trade Center towers in the small hours of September 12, thinking it was going to be a quiet news night.
I could then talk about the dream I had that morning, of people switching channels and seeing the same thing, the early-morning call from Edward Hodges telling me what had happened, and stumbling to the first day of the Wellington Fashion Festival on a day when no one really wanted to celebrate. I could talk about how we changed the Lucire web edition’s cover to black as a mark of respect that day. I could talk about emails being sent with attachments featuring victims falling from the WTC or the towers collapsing.
But then, this editorial would be like nine others I had written in print and online.
For the 10th anniversary of the event, it might be more fitting to write of what 9-11 has meant to me, each time I think of the deaths and the sacrifices on that day.
I want to do so apolitically, out of respect to the victims in the United States and in those caught up in the wars that were waged subsequently.
Nine-eleven brings me the message of selflessness. I visited one of the ladder companies near the WTC, the first people who responded to Flight 11 hitting the North Tower. The FDNY guys were deep in mourning, remembering their fallen comrades. Those men and women in all emergency services who knew that they could be going to their deaths that day put the welfare of others first. None of them discerned the races and creeds of those they were rescuing. They had a job to do.
Nine-eleven brings me the message of perspective. A friend who was a waiter told me that his customers simply treated everyone nicely in the wake of the disaster. A tragedy of this scale meant a coffee that took an extra minute to arrive was not the end of the world.
Nine-eleven brings me the message of humanity. Some of our financial and political systems may leave something to be desired, but at the core, human nature’s positive side remains intact when our backs are against the wall.
Yet the aftermath was not always pleasant. Arab-Americans reading newspapers in the language of the old country were asked to leave restaurants and cafés. It took only two weeks for my waiter friend to encounter the same old rudeness. His customers went back to self-importance, forgetting that we were in this game of life together. Never mind that people were hurting, or that Mayor Giuliani was attending funeral FDNY services with empty coffins in the very same city: where is my goddamn coffee?
Does it really take a tragedy with such a massive loss of life for some people to take a step back from the minutiæ of their own existence and accept others’ feelings? And only for two weeks?
If we’re to accept that those thousands of deaths that are part of the 9-11 attacks, the 7-7 attacks in 2005, and those killed in wars linked to that infamous day a decade ago, surely we can do better than display a bit of humanity for a fortnight?
As a human race, surely we can be selfless more often in our lives, understand the feelings of another human being, and what our own actions might do to them?
That it need not take a disaster of such magnitude for us to do what those heroes did on 9-11: showing some humanity and be a little more giving in our everyday lives?
As this editorial goes out just shy of the exact 10-year mark of the first jet hitting the North Tower, I like to think that I have lived by the right principles—sometimes to my own detriment, but more often than not, to my clear conscience and benefit.
I’d rather lead by example, than retreat out of fear. Those old patterns that don’t serve humanity need not be repeated. If I can do it, everyone can.
On this tenth anniversary, pledging to live by a positive example is perhaps the best tribute all the 9-11 victims can have.—Jack Yan, Publisher
The main part of the Lucire website has had some international fashion round-ups. Not only have fashion editor Sopheak Seng and Paris editor Lola Saab made their picks from the New York fall collections (with more to come), but Joanna Mroczkowska has filed her report from Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week in Poland, and, importantly, Yuka Murai writes about three designers who have defied the odds of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan to release collections.
This last story shows that even though Japan Fashion Week was cancelled after March 11, there are designers who have the bottle to carry on. With help from the organizers of Japan Fashion Week, they persisted: Yasutoshi Ezumi, Fernanda Yamamoto and Van Hongo all showed autumn–winter 2011–12 designs, leading the way and inspiring the industry. As Yuka writes:
Japanese culture shows that if one part of the nation suffers, the rest is supposed suffer and feel pain by not consuming any extras and luxury goods. This activity is called jishuku in Japanese … However, there are still many citizens in Japan who try to help the devastated area by not following jishuku, instead contributing positively to economic activity or setting up various support systems for new or suffering businesses. Japan Fashion Week is one of the organizations …
Elyse Glickman meets author and activist, Yangzom Brauen, who discusses her new memoir on Tibet; while publisher Jack Yan tests two very different BMW 5-series models, the 550i and 535d.
Meanwhile, in celebrity news from our colleagues at ITN: screen siren Jessica Alba frankly talks motherhood, with baby no. 2 on the way. And Eliza Doolittle says her legs are not insured for £5 million: it was intended as a joke that was taken literally, and reported.
Doing the rounds on the internet is a story that a hacker has allegedly found his way into Blake Lively’s Iphone, and has leaked nude photographs of the actress. Lively’s reps have said that while the photographs are genuine, they are not of the actress. Not really the sort of thing we cover, but it appears to be in the Zeitgeist and isn’t going away just yet.
Above Julie Evans, General Manager, Operations, for Rodney Wayne, competition winner Wendy Bunce, and Rodney Wayne Creative Director Richard Kavanagh.
Rodney Wayne client Wendy Bunce has won a trip for two to New York for Fashion Week, the salon chain has announced.
Top stylist Richard Kavanagh, who has been profiled in Lucire, is now Rodney Wayne’s creative director. Access behind the scenes at Fashion Week is thanks to his arrival and his connections in the international fashion world.
Bunce will take her 18-year-old daughter Chloë to enjoy five nights in New York, accompanying Kavanagh to shows.
Key make-up artist, Lucia Pieroni for Clé de Peau Beauté and key hairstylist, Orlando Pita for Moroccanoil, were in charge of designing the look for Vera Wang’s fall 2011 collection. To even further accentuate the contrast in Vera’s clothing, they combined the two extremes of hard and soft with both the make-up and hair.
Inspired by the 1930s’ iconic American working woman with style and flare for romance, Vera Wang’s fall collection brought deep charcoal and slate to the runway. An iron-gated backdrop added to the show’s rustic and edgy style. The clothes capture this as well and exhibit a blend of hard, strong lines with flowy, layered fabrics. This inspired Pieroni to create a look that would pull these two extremes together. Playing up the shades of grey and black in the clothes, Lucia used cream eye colour in Moonlight and in Moonshadow to deepen and intensify the eyes. To keep with the industrial steel theme, no cheek colour was added; however, a bit of gold shimmer was applied as a cheekbone highlight. For the lips, she chose Extra Rich Lipstick in both Comtesse du Cayla and in Mutabilis to bring out a hint of understated romantic aristocratic desire.
Orlando Pita chose to pull back the front of the hair and tuck it under into a loose pony tail. ‘I wanted to create a look that had the feeling of structure, yet was very loose, and almost fluid at the same time,’ said Pita. The hair on top is shiny and smooth while the ponytail below is looser with a few strands of hair falling down the back. This look emphasizes the contrast of rounded architectural shapes with graceful, flowing lines. Both Orlando and Lucia did an all-round beautiful job, The show rocked, and Vera’s collection was one of our favourites this season.—Reiva Cruze, New York Beauty Editor
Above Canadian artist Luc Bouchard; in the lower photograph, Lucire beauty editor Reiva Cruze talks to him.
A unique collection of paintings was presented for the public to enjoy at Space on White in lower Manhattan during the fall 2011 Fashion Week. Using mainly acrylic paints with a few hints of actual make-up, Luc Bouchard has created a visual world of depth and colour that takes us on his extraordinary journey of faces and perception. He’s made such a beautifully executed transition from the face to the canvas by using his 26 years’ expertise looking at and painting faces. His work on canvas is colourful, dramatic, and, yet, familiar. The core behind each piece is clearly within the eyes. Eyes so deep, you find yourself staring into them, searching for what is possibly the artist’s own perception.
Luc Bouchard has not only been an inspiration to me as a make-up artist during this past decade, but an icon. His flawless style and artistic control make his every stroke appear effortless and the outcome, memorizing. It’s been a privilege watching him work backstage at Fashion Week as well as at private workshops and classes held at the MAC Pro Store here in New York City.
I had the opportunity to chat with Bouchard during his exhibit at Space on White, attempting to delve into his own artistic influences and inspiration.
‘I try to get a sense of the underlying passions in people and enhance it; hope, dreams, sorrow, despair, sadness … revealed by the layering colours of their souls,’ Bouchard says of his collection.
I enjoyed his work as much as I enjoyed watching the many faces that came to admire and pay tribute to this remarkably talented artist and the next step in his career.—Reiva Cruze, New York Beauty Editor
The Heart Truth campaign has seen the Coca-Cola Company create newly designed packaging for Diet Coke to commemorate the soft drink manufacturer’s fifth-year support of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) campaign, to promote heart disease awareness. Diet Coke has also participated in numerous awareness-raising programmes to aid the campaign over the last few months.
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