Three’s a crowd Everyone (including us, for Lucire Home) seems to be doing ads in columns of three. Except Fragrance Net. They did theirs in rows of three.
Back issues and shopping We know that not many people browse these back issues’ (e.g. the above one for ‘Volante’) and shopping pages, but we still wanted to get them ship-shape and matching the rest of the site in case someone did. The shopping section home page hadn’t been updated properly since 2007. So, we spent the last eight hours creating fresh content, checking links, and redesigning all of these old pages—we hope you enjoy them.
We had a nice message on our Facebook page from a site called The Luxury Hub. Apparently, we’ve been nominated for the ‘Luxplosion 2010’ awards under the Lifestyle–Haute Living category, and to get into their top five, we need readers to re-nominate us. So, if you have time, head over to theluxuryhub.com/luxplosion-2010/, select Lifestyle as the category and Haute Living as the sub-category, and enter http://lucire.com as the URL. The rest should be self-explanatory and refreshingly, there’s no “sign up to nominate” requirement.
Fire up the Quattro Audi has launched a heritage section on its UK website, and there is a plethora of historical models on there, including the mighty Quattro. (Before Ashes fans say it, I realize this is a later model than Gene Hunt’s.)—Jack Yan
Welcome, Oprah! Eleven years ago, Condé Nast began advertising a little-known website called Style.com on our site after it bought the domain name. Now it looks like it’s Oprah Winfrey’s turn, advertising her new channel.
I’m already hungry Is it just me, or is it a little odd to have the initials KFC in the text message for a world hunger programme?—Jack Yan
How’s about that, then? I know that maybe only Brits over 35 will get the reference to Jimmy Savile, but I thought it was funny.—Jack Yan
Website cover girl Kate was there, if only for a few hours. Given the choice between a brief news article populated by advertising shots and a story written by our Paris editor, the latter will always win through.
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