Jack Yan
publisher of lucire.com and partner of the L´Oreal New Zealand Fashion Week (beginning 21st october 2002)

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Lucire and L Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week go global with Rebecca Weinberg, Brian Long and guests

Noted American stylist and publicist thrilled about independent fashion spirit; plans to connect NZ with international media

Auckland, October 16 (JY&A Media) Lucire, L'Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week, Rebecca Weinberg and Brian Long are all helping to make Kiwi fashion globally relevant in addition to defiantly different .
Lucire, Official Internet Partner and support sponsor of L Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week, is not the only global touch this year. Famous stylist Rebecca Weinberg whose credits include Sex and the City is one of the confirmed A-list guests, as well as noted publicist and fashion show producer Brian S. Long of Apropo Showroom and Press. And the guest list isn't finished rumours abound about others to confirm in the final week leading to the event. Ms Weinberg said, I feel very excited to be asked to be a part of an exotic fashion week. For an American, it seems so far. I couldn't be more thrilled.
I think it is great that lines like Zambesi will finally be on par with their European and American brands. It is cool that they are beating their own drums and not doing what everyone [else] is doing.
With us big-mouth Yanks, like my friend, super-publicist Brian Long, and I around, we will make sure that everyone in North America knows what they have been missing.
Mr Long shares his compatriot s sentiments. I am thrilled to be afforded the chance to see the collections of a country that have been virtually untapped by North America for so long. We see many great collections from South America, Japan and Europe, but now & He looks forward to bringing his expertise to New Zealand designers and to set up mutually beneficial relationships with the American media.
L Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week managing director Pieter Stewart said, Bringing people like Rebecca and Brian to L Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week is another way of enhancing the reputation New Zealanders in fashion are building for themselves as defiantly different . We see the skills and contacts of stylists and publicists as entirely complementary to the influence of the key international fashion editors and the vision and experience of the big retail buyers. We talk about exploring the unchartered waters of global fashion in terms of New Zealand designers. People like Rebecca love this vision and really respond to the idea which, of course, spells export dollars for New Zealand, said Mrs Stewart. She added, The emergence of fashion web sites like Lucire, our official online partner is another layer to the mix. We are fortunate to have such an influential example of this new media based in New Zealand and we are delighted that Jack Yan and his team have as much faith in New Zealand designers as anybody. Like Rebecca, they want to tell the world about the way New Zealand views fashion.
Lucire, a mainstay of international fashion weeks, celebrates its fifth anniversary on the day Fashion Week begins.

Lucire will host private drinks in Auckland at 1 p.m. on October 21, the first day of L Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week, at which publisher Jack Yan and invited guests will celebrate the magazine's fifth anniversary. A fifth anniversary issue débuts this week and is accessible from its web site at <http://www.lucire.com>.

foto Jack Yan lucire.com by Jennifer Springgay