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Lucire
''Lucire'' ( , ; ) is a fashion magazine that originally began on the web in 1997, before adding a monthly print edition in its home country of New Zealand in 2004, and is now published seasonally, with a monthly for licensees. It is the first fashion partner with the UNEP, an arrangement that began in 2003. In 1999, ''Harper's Bazaar Australia'' listed ''Lucire'' in its "A-list of Style" supplement. In 2018, ''Lucire'' was listed by ''StyleCaster'' as one of the "21 International Fashion Magazines That Should Be on Your Radar." In 2022, '' LUXlife'' named ''Lucire'' its "Most Pioneering Online Fashion Magazine", and in 2025, they awarded it "Best Digital Fashion Magazine". History At its launch, it was the second online fashion title in New Zealand (after Wellington Polytechnic's ''Fashionbrat''), and the first commercial fashion magazine on the web there. With ''Fashionbrat'' lasting only one issue, ''Lucire'' is the longest running online fashion magazine in New Zealand. It cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Rayne Oakes
Summer Rayne Oakes (born June 1982) is an American fashion model, environmental activist, author, and entrepreneur, known as the world's first " eco-model". Oakes grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where her concern for the environment began early. She studied ecology in college, where she noticed that scientific papers on the environment received much less attention than popular media. She became a model in New York City, and insisted on only modeling clothing made from organic or recycled materials. These principles cost her work, but gained her notice and the title of world's first "eco-model". Besides modeling, Oakes has worked as a writer and editor for fashion magazine '' Lucire'', as a television reporter for environmental network Planet Green, and has written three books: ''Style, Naturally'', a shopping guide to eco-friendly fashion and beauty products; ''SugarDetoxMe'', a book of recipes to remove free sugars; and ''How to Make a Plant Love You'' on raising plants in an u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Yan
Jack Yan (; born 1972) is a New Zealand publisher, designer and businessman. He is best known as the founder and publisher of ''Lucire''. He ran for mayor of Wellington in 2010, and again in 2013, but was unsuccessful in both elections. Background Yan was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand, with his parents in 1976. He attended St Mark's Church School (where he was Dux) and Scots College, Wellington, Scots College, and graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with three degrees – two in business and one in Bachelor of Laws, law. Aside from English, Yan speaks Cantonese, French, and Taishanese. Career Business ventures Beginning in the 1980s, Yan created over 100 type design, typeface designs himself for his firm, Jack Yan & Associates and was New Zealand's first digital typeface designer. He encouraged other local typeface designers such as Kris Sowersby to pursue careers in that industry. His typefaces include Ætna, a revival of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Hyde
''Power Rangers Dino Charge'' and its second season ''Power Rangers Dino Super Charge'', is an American children's television series that airs on Nickelodeon. It is the 2015 and 2016 entry in the ''Power Rangers'' franchise. The show follows the Power Rangers Tyler Navarro ( Brennan Mejia), Shelby Watkins (Camille Hyde), Koda the caveman (Yoshi Sudarso), Riley Griffin (Michael Taber), and Chase Randall (James Davies) who protect the Earth from the evil alien bounty hunter, Sledge, who seeks the Energems to become invincible. The Power Rangers are later joined by the medieval knight Sir Ivan of Zandar ( Davi Santos), his modern liege Prince Phillip III (Jarred Blakiston), their own tech expert Kendall Morgan (Claire Blackwelder), Tyler's long lost father James (Reuben Turner, Dan Musgrove), and Keeper's apprentice Zenowing who also become Power Rangers to stop Sledge, only to find his former prisoner Heckyl (Ryan Carter) has transformed into the more powerful evil alien Snide and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javicia Leslie
Javicia Leslie ( ; born May 30, 1987) is an American actress. After landing her first major role in the Lifetime film ''Swim at Your Own Risk'' (2016), she appeared as a series regular on the BET drama '' The Family Business'' (2018–present) and the CBS comedy-drama ''God Friended Me'' (2018–2020). She also starred as the lead of the film '' Always a Bridesmaid'' (2019). In 2021, Leslie began portraying the title role of The CW superhero series ''Batwoman'', and the Red Death in the first five episodes of the ninth and final season of ''The Flash''. Early life and education Leslie was born into a military family on May 30, 1987 in Augsburg, Germany. Her family moved to Maryland where she grew up in Upper Marlboro. She attended Hampton University where she appeared in productions of ''Seven Guitars'', ''for colored girls'', and ''Chicago''. Career Following her college graduation, Leslie moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. She appeared in the BET series '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittny Gastineau
Brittny Gastineau (born November 11, 1982) is an American model, socialite, and reality television personality. Early life and family Gastineau was born in New York City. She is the daughter of Lisa Gastineau and former New York Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau. During the divorce proceedings between her parents she lived with her grandmother and attended public school at Clarkstown High School North in New City, New York. After graduating from high school she attended the University of Alabama before returning to New York City to model. Careers Modeling After moving back to Manhattan, Gastineau signed with the Elite Model Management, and became a model as part of their celebrity division. Within weeks of signing with the agency, she appeared in a spread for ''Stuff'' magazine. She walked runways for Anne Bowen and Anna Sui during NYC fashion week in 2005, and signed an endorsement deal with L'Oréal Paris, which led to a European advertising campaign. During that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Girl
A cover girl is a woman whose photograph is used for the front cover of magazines. She may be a model, celebrity or entertainer. The term would generally not be used to describe a person making a single, casual appearance on the cover of a magazine. The term first appeared in English in about 1899. Russian-American film producer Voldemar Vetluguin is credited with the popularization of the usage of ''cover girls'' in magazine covers. The term cover boy is occasionally used for men. Types of cover girl Women are on the cover of the majority of general-interest magazines in the west for both men and women, with exceptions as discussed below. Celebrities feature on the cover of magazines such as '' Redbook'' for women, or '' Gentlemen's Quarterly'', ''Maxim'' or ''Esquire'' for men. The use of royalty or aristocracy is linked to the primary objective of recognition. Some magazines for women feature an unknown model that represents the style of the magazine, such as '' Seventeen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zac Posen
Zachary E. Posen (; born October 24, 1980) is an American fashion designer. Early life Zachary E. Posen was born and raised in a American Jews, Jewish family in New York City, residing in the SoHo neighborhood of lower Manhattan. He is the son of Susan (née Orzack), a corporate lawyer, and Stephen Arnold Posen, an artist. He has family roots in Shklow, Belarus, and Żychlin, Poland. His interest in fashion design started early, and as a child he would steal yarmulkes from his grandparents' synagogue to make ball dresses for dolls. He attended Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn), Saint Ann's School, a private school in Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn and in his sophomore year interned with fashion designer Nicole Miller. As a teen, he also won a Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Scholastic Art and Writing Award. At age 16 he enrolled in the pre-college program at Parsons The New School for Design. He graduated from Saint Ann's in 1999. For three years, Posen was mentored by curator Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty
Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasure, pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, art and taste are the main subjects of aesthetics, one of the fields of study within philosophy. As a positive aesthetic value, it is contrasted with Unattractiveness, ugliness as its negative counterpart. One difficulty in understanding beauty is that it has both objective and subjective aspects: it is seen as a property of things but also as depending on the emotional response of observers. Because of its subjective side, beauty is said to be "in the eye of the beholder". It has been argued that the ability on the side of the subject needed to perceive and judge beauty, sometimes referred to as the "sense of taste", can be trained and that the verdicts of experts coincide in the long run. This suggests the standards of validity of judgments of beauty are intersubjective, i.e. dependent on a group of j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publisher
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribution of Printing, printed works, such as books, comic books, newspapers, and magazine, magazines to the public. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing, digital publishing such as E-book, e-books, Magazines, digital magazines, Electronic publishing, websites, social media, music, and video game publisher, video game publishing. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as News Corp, Pearson PLC, Pearson, Penguin Random House, and Thomson Reuters to major retail brands and thousands of small independent publishers. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing, and Academi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Language
Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; , or , ) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance languages, Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin which separated from the Italo-Western languages, Western Romance languages in the course of the period from the 5th to the 8th centuries. To distinguish it within the Eastern Romance languages, in comparative linguistics it is called ''#Dialects, Daco-Romanian'' as opposed to its closest relatives, Aromanian language, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian language, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian. It is also spoken as a minority language by stable communities in the countries surrounding Romania (Romanians in Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Romanians in Hungary, Hungary, Romanians in Serbia, Serbia and Romanians in Ukraine, Ukraine), and by the large Romanian diaspora. In total, it is spoken by 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Richards
Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress, TV personality, and model. She rose to prominence with roles in the science fiction film ''Starship Troopers'' (1997), the erotic thriller film '' Wild Things'' (1998), and the James Bond film ''The World Is Not Enough'' (1999). Her performance as Bond girl Christmas Jones in the latter, while criticized, granted Richards her mainstream breakthrough. Richards has appeared in films such as the comedies '' Drop Dead Gorgeous'' (1999), '' Undercover Brother'' (2002), '' Scary Movie 3'' (2003), ''Love Actually'' (2003), and '' Madea's Witness Protection'' (2012), the slasher '' Valentine'' (2001), the dramas ''Edmond'' (2005) and ''Jolene'' (2008), and the musical thriller ''American Satan'' (2017). Her television roles include the sitcom '' Blue Mountain State'' (2010–2011), the mystery thriller series '' Twisted'' (2013–2014), and the soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' (2019–2022). Richards has sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
