Jack Yan - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

CEO, Jack Yan & Associates; publisher, Lucire and Autocade; co-chair, Medinge Group. Award-winning author, for Panos: My Life, My Odyssey (Highly Commended, Business Book Awards 2023). Former columnist for Desktop and former contributor to Eye, DZ3, Visual Arts Trends, Fontzone and All About Branding.

Content

Total articles 375

• Are we living in the era of Andrew Niccol’s Simone?

  By Jack Yan| Lucire Verified Twenty-three years ago, we ran a story about Ermenegildo Zegna supplying the dinner suits for Andrew Niccol’s film Simone, as well as a review of the film itself, released on a single day only in Niccol’s native New Zealand. So much for the mainstream hype about supporting your own—while The Lord of the Rings and Die Another Day were locally lauded because of their Kiwi directors, distributors released whatever their foreign counterparts wanted them do.

  By Jack Yan · Lucire

  Apr. 12, 2025

• The week: on Careless People, US exiting world affairs, and meritorious coverage

  By Jack Yan| Lucire Verified Nice to get a shout-out from Murray Bevan in his op–ed at Fashionz, as he ponders the New Zealand fashion and beauty PR industry. He asked, referring to an article I wrote about him:In a profession that should really be invisible, why was it that he wanted to profile me: a 20-something-year-old guy who was representing some of the least known fashion labels in New Zealand? Pretty easy. Murray was bloody good at his job, and it’s our role, I feel, to provide coverage based on merit.

  By Jack Yan · Lucire

  Mar. 22, 2025

• Kia showcases full EV line-up, including compact EV3 and smooth EV4

  By Jack Yan| Lucire Verified Kia held its New Zealand edition of its EV Day in Auckland today, giving press and fleet buyers a chance to sample what is the country’s broadest range of full EVs, including the compact EV3, which launches officially next month. The brand-new EV4 was also on show, in GT Line trim.

  By Jack Yan · Lucire

  Mar. 19, 2025

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Company Info

Lucire

The global fashion magazine, originally founded online in 1997. Branched out into print editions in 2004, and into more than one country in 2005. Lucire was the first to publish an international sustainable style editorial in 2005. In the 2010s, we continue to offer content online, on mobile, and in print, reaching over 250,000 people per month. Our coverage remains global—rather than bias our coverage to any one nation, we attempt to offer international perspectives through a network of correspondents in New Zealand, Australia, the US, the UK, France and other countries.