Lucire

Lucire
February 2007 cover
US Editor Summer Rayne Oakes
Categories Fashion
Beauty
Frequency Monthly
Bi-monthly
Quarterly
Publisher Jack Yan
Miguel Kirjon
Valentin Lapusca
Total circulation
(2006)		 65,450
First issue October 20, 1997
Company Jack Yan & Associates
Asia Design Consultants
GoMedia Srl
Country  New Zealand
 Thailand
 Romania
Language English
Romanian
Website lucire.com
lucire.net
lucire.com/romania/
ISSN 1175-7515

Lucire /luːˈtʃɪəreɪ/ is a fashion magazine that originally began on the web in 1997, before branching into a monthly print edition in its home country of New Zealand in 2004, and is now published seasonally. It is the first fashion partner with the UNEP, an arrangement that began in 2003.


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. It claims to be the first fashion title to extend its brand from the internet into print, and the first website to launch print editions in more than one country. An unusual claim is that Lucire is the first national consumer publication in New Zealand to use exclusively typefaces designed and produced domestically.

Samantha Hannah edits the "master" print edition in New Zealand. Summer Rayne Oakes was made the US Editor in 2007 and subsequently editor-at-large. Previous positions were staffed by Stevie Wilson, who served as US Editor, Catherine Rigod, who filled the role of West Coast Editor and Richard Spiegel, who worked as a New York-based photojournalist, among others. Lucire was founded by Jack Yan, who continues to serve as publisher.

When conceived, the name was not intended to have a meaning; it was only later that the team discovered it was a quaint Romanian term meaning ‘to glitter’ and there is a similar word in Spanish meaning ‘to show off’.

In the early 2000s, Lucire covered new talent alongside more established names. It was one of the first publications to profile Zac Posen, New Zealand shoe designer Kathryn Wilson, MTV New Zealand presenter and former beauty queen Amber Peebles, and numerous others. In 2003, it was the second-ever New Zealand website to be nominated for a Webby Award.[1]

Print edition cover girls have included Gal Gadot, Denise Richards, Brittny Gastineau, Vanessa Carlton, Sarah McLachlan, Stacie Jones Upchurch, Nicky Hilton and Theodora Richards. New York City photographers Barry Hollywood, Gray Scott and Jon Moe have contributed the greatest number of covers.

International editions

Lucire launched its first international edition in Romania (helmed by Mirella and Valentin Lapusca) in May 2005, claiming to be the first New Zealand fashion magazine to enter the continent, and the first webzine in the world to launch two print editions. A Thai edition, Twinpalms Lucire, launched in 2008 in conjunction with Minor International, and is distributed throughout their resorts. Additionally, Vox magazine in Qatar was briefly launched in conjunction with Lucire.


Notes

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-12-02. Retrieved 2009-12-11.

References

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