

[Cross-posted] I received a very nice email from Amber Peebles, the MTV New Zealand host, who is on last month’s Girlfriend cover in New Zealand. I must say I do like this Girlfriend cover: it’s very Amber, and very fresh.
As some who follow this blog know, Amber appeared as the first New Zealander on a printed Lucire cover (not counting the prototypes we did in 2004). She wrote:
Thank you so much for gracing me with yours. It has put me in a very different light. It’s amazing what exposure like that does to people’s perceptions.
Lucire was not Amber’s first cover—I remember Madison in New Zealand (the original one, not the Australian one that went and registered the name while the Kiwi one was still running)—but it’s nice to know that after 10 years, we continue to have that positive halo effect for people.