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Below is the last 12 months’ known coverage about Jack Yan & Associates, its team members and its properties. Some coverage on the Medinge Group is included.
   Generally, this page does not include articles authored by Jack Yan & Associates’ staff in various magazines.
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Last update 08/05/02

08/05/02 ‘Miss Universe NZ judge hits back at criticism’, Scoop
Jack Yan responds to criticisms of Miss New Zealand second runner-up Rhonda Grant’s Massey University interview by the Association of University Staff

08/04/22 Fitzsimons: ‘Horowhenua beauty’s bid for the universe’, The Dominion Post, April 22, 2008, p. A3
Jack Yan quoted on judging the Miss Universe New Zealand pageant, which Samantha Powell won

08/04/21 ‘Miss Horowhenua takes Miss Universe New Zealand’, Scoop
Samantha Powell wins Miss New Zealand 2008; Jack Yan, representing Lucire, quoted

08/04/08 Bowie (ed.): ‘Yan: Kiwi sovereignty under threat from China free-trade agreement’, Lawfuel, April 8, 2008
Jack Yan positions himself against the free-trade agreement with Red China, claiming that New Zealand sovereignty would be put under threat by Beijing

08/04 ‘Shape women who inspire us’, Shape, April 2008, p. 34
Shape previews Summer Rayne Oakes’s work on the upcoming Planet Green TV channel (the renamed Discovery Home Channel)

08/03/27 ‘No brand confusion expected from Jaguar, Land Rover sale to Tata’, Dexinger
Jack Yan says it will be business as usual for Jaguar and Land Rover after sale of the two brands by Ford to Tata

08/03/22 ‘专业舞蹈演员：像舞蹈博物馆’, Epoch Times, March 22, 2008
Stefan Engeseth quoted at Shen Yun—Chinese Spectacular

08/03/22 Saunders: ‘Party people’, Sunday Star–Times, ‘About Town’ supplement, March 22, 2008, p. 6
Jack Yan photographed at Bendon store launch in Wellington, New Zealand

08/03/22 Glucina: ‘Bendon geishas’, Herald on Sunday, March 22, 2008
Jack Yan and Casimira Kerr photographed at Bendon store launch in Wellington, New Zealand

08/02/15 ‘Lucire launches in Thailand’, Market New Zealand
New Zealand government site on Lucire’s growth into another market

08/02/11 ‘Ashleigh Berry’, Refinery29, February 11, 2008
Lucire’s Ashleigh Berry interviewed at New York Fashion Week

08/02 Hightower: ‘Green fatigue’, Outside, February 2008
Summer Rayne Oakes quoted at Power Shift

08/01/30 ‘Ich will Öko-Fibel mit Stil’, Newsprint, January 30, 2008, p. 16
Summer Rayne Oakes interviewed by Swiss newspaper on her views on eco-fashion

08/01/27 ‘Lucire launches in Thailand’, Scoop
Lucire launches a new print edition in Thailand, as covered in Scoop’s business service

08/01/23 Santiago: ‘Fashion with a conscience’, The Plain Dealer, January 23, 2008
Merlene Santiago covers the Medinge Group’s fashion and beauty industry winners in the Brands with a Conscience awards; Jack Yan quoted

08/01/10 Kam: ‘You will know Indashio!’, Star Bulletin, January 10, 2008
Brad Batory’s career rose in part thanks to Lucire, as Nadine Kam interviews the designer at Indashio

08/01/10 Cockroft: ‘H&M and Pret on Green list’, Design Week, January 10, 2008
Lucia Cockroft highlights H&M and Pret a Manger among the Medinge Group’s 2008 Brands with a Conscience winners; Ian Ryder quoted

08/01/10 Ozler: ‘International think-tank announces 2008 Brands with a Conscience’, Dexinger
Designer portal covers the full list of winners at the Medinge Group’s 2008 Brands with a Conscience

08/01/09 ‘Brands with a Conscience’, Brand Strategy Blog, January 9, 2008
Brand Strategy magazine lists the Medinge Group’s eight winners for Brands with a Conscience

08/01/08 ‘Tony Chocolonely is een merk met een geweten’, Nieuwsbank, January 8, 2008
Dutch news archive has information on the Medinge Group’s 2008 Brands with a Conscience awards, which includes local company Tony Chocolonely

08/01/07 ‘Slaafvrije chocola is “merk met geweten”’, De Pers, January 7, 2008
Slave-free chocolate from Tony Chocolonely, and H&M and the International Watch Company named in the Medinge Group’s 2008 Brands with a Conscience awards. Also published at Novum

08/01/06 ‘Medinge 2008 Brands with a Conscience awards’, Marknet, January 6, 2008
Via Ton Zijlstra, Marknet’s marketing news summary notes that the Medinge Group has made its 2008 Brands with a Conscience announcement

08/01/03 ‘International think-tank announces fifth annual Brands with a Conscience’, Lucire, January 3, 2008
Two fashion brands among the winners of the Medinge Group’s 2008 Brands with a Conscience awards

08/01 Christmann: ‘Die Top 20 unter 40 Jahren auf dem Sprung!’, Amica, January 2008, pp. 116 ff.
Summer Rayne Oakes profiled in German women’s magazine as one of the world’s top 20 people under 40 years of age

07/12 DN, ‘D2’ supplement, December 20, 2007
Summer Rayne Oakes interviewed in Norwegian newspaper supplement

07/12/05 ‘Social’, Capital Times, vol. 33, no. 6, December 5, 2007, p. 22
Jack Yan and Sarah Garlick photographed at the launch of the 2008 Chinese New Year Festival

07/11 ‘The shift of power’, CSSC TV
Summer Rayne Oakes’s contribution at Power Shift ’07 noted by CSSC TV

07/11/06 Gardner: ‘Young people bring green demands to DC’, Discovery News, Discovery Channel
Summer Rayne Oakes interviewed at Power Shift ’07

07/11 Fernandez: ‘Green is the new black’, Seattle Sound, November 2007
Jamie Fernandez covers Seattle’s first annual Green Fashion Week, where Summer Rayne Oakes modelled

07/11 Hochwald: ‘The perfect gift’, Body & Soul, November 2007, p. 36
Summer Rayne Oakes chooses Lotus by League of Artisans duvets as a Fair Trade choice for the holidays

07/10 ‘Summer Rayne Oakes: eco supermodel’, Elevision
Waylon at Elephant Magazine interviews Summer Rayne Oakes on eco-fashion—with a plug for Power Shift

07/10/30 Clean Tech Review with Curtiss Martin, ScribeMedia.org, October 30, 2007
Curtiss Martin interviews Summer Rayne Oakes on biodiesel, entymology and politics

07/10 ‘Dressing green’, The Word on the Street, NBC1
Summer Rayne Oakes interviewed for eco-fashion segment on teen channel

07/10 Neale: ‘Bananas going global’, The Asian Magazine, no. 4, October–November 2007, pp. 78–9
The ‘very successful and totally enigmatic’ Jack Yan speaks at the Bananas Going Global conference

07/10/12 Enting: ‘The fight over Pavement’, Runway Reporter
Carolyn Enting gives a detailed account over the first registration of the Pavement trade mark for magazines by Jack Yan

07/10/10 The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady, 95 bFM
Radio station interviews Jack Yan on his registration of the Pavement trade mark

07/10/09 Enting: ‘Magazine’s ex-owner fights for trademark’, The Dominion Post, October 10, 2007
Jack Yan’s registration of Pavement trade mark opposed by Pavement Ltd.

07/10/01 ‘Green is the new black’, Seattle Post–Intelligencer, October 1, 2007
Summer Rayne Oakes hosts private cocktail function

07/10 ‘Weil sie Ökologie sexy macht’, Elle Deutschland, October 2007, p. 87
Summer Rayne Oakes profiled in German edition of Elle

07/09/28 Sitt: ‘Seattle’s first Green Fashion Week: hip clothes take the “eek” out of eco-conscious’, The Seattle Times, September 28, 2007
Green Fashion Week kicks off on Saturday, hosted by Summer Rayne Oakes, writes Pamela Sitt

07/09/28 ‘Green Fashion Week events’, The Seattle Times, September 28, 2007
Summer Rayne Oakes to MC cocktail reception on October 6

07/09/18 Odoak: ‘Lucire magazine’s Jack Yan offers tips n how to get the media to notice you!’, Ladybrille
Blog-based webzine interviews Jack Yan on fashion and how to get African companies noticed overseas (republished at Evan Carmichael)

07/09/16 It’s Easy Being Green, HGTV
Summer Rayne Oakes gives her eco-model raison d’être on HGTV

07/09/14 Enting: ‘Trying to take Manhattan’, The Age, September 14, 2007, p. 14
Lucire is at New York Fashion Week

07/09/09 Likeman: ‘In fashion, out of Auckland’, Sunday Star–Times, ‘Fashion Front’ supplement
Jack Yan interviewed on why Lucire is not based in New Zealand’s largest city

07/09 Benjamin: ‘Fun fearless phenoms 2007’, Cosmopolitan, September 2007, pp. 305 ff.
Jennifer Benjamin includes Summer Rayne Oakes in her list of top women for the year. Michelle Wie, Laura Bell Bundy, Ashlee Margolis, Marissa Mayer, and Jennifer and Fiona Lees included

07/09 ‘Take a step for a healthier planet’, Shape, September 2007
Race against Global Warming promoted in Shape, along with Summer Rayne Oakes’ involvement

07/08 ‘Modelito sustentáve’, Qual é?, August 2007, p. 13
Summer Rayne Oakes, ‘ecomodelo’, profiled in Brazilian magazine

07/08 Sayer: ‘Getting schooled’, MSN
Kyeann Sayer interviews Summer Rayne Oakes, in her Ecofashion 101 mode, on the environmental impact of the back-to-school wardrobe

07/08/26 Asia Down Under, TV One, New Zealand, August 26, 2007, 8.30 a.m. NZST
Jack Yan interviewed at the Bananas New Zealand Going Global conference in Auckland about Lucire and being a Chinese New Zealander, by Pushpa Jabin

07/08/24 Young People Who Rock, CNN, August 24, 2007
Summer Rayne Oakes interviewed on CNN by Nicole Lapin and speaks about her upcoming initiatives. View the CNN blog for the comments, including responses by Summer Rayne

07/08 Le Kay: ‘Summer Rayne Oakes’, Heyoka Magazine, fall 2007
John le Kay interviews Summer Rayne Oakes on eco-fashion and the environment

07/08 ‘Green and gorgeous video podcasts: personal care’, Explore House & Garden, August 2007
Summer Rayne Oakes in a second House & Garden interview, discussing personal care

07/08 ‘Green and gorgeous video podcasts: fashion/jewelry’, Explore House & Garden, August 2007
Jacob Gordon interviews Summer Rayne Oakes in online environmental supplement in House & Garden’s web edition

07/08/11 Sierra Club Radio, August 11, 2007
Summer Rayne Oakes interviewed on sustainability in the fashion industry

07/08/01 ‘Seeds of “ethical fashion” are being sown in US’, MediaPost
Summer Rayne Oakes comments on the US catching up with Europe with ethical fashion

07/08 Sack: ‘Die Schönste grüne der Welt’, GQ Deutschland, August 2007, pp. 162–5
Full interview with Summer Rayne Oakes in a GQ special featuring hybrid cars, including the Ford Escape Hybrid taxi in New York

07/07/31 ‘Attendance mandatory’, The Dominion Post, July 31, 2007, p. B3
Lucire’s Jack Yan pictured with Raybon Kan at Mandatory’s 10th anniversary party

07/07/28 Cadbury Dream Model Search ’07, C4, New Zealand, 7 p.m. NZST
Lucire’s Jack Yan one of the judges at Cadbury Dream Model Search ’07 appears in network TV documentary

07/07/27 ¯Mandatory affair’, Runway Reporter
Jack Yan photographed at the Mandatory 10th anniversary party by ACP publication

07/07/27 ‘Toast of the valley’, Napa Valley Register, July 27, 2007
Rep. Mike Thompson (Democrat, St Hélèna) recognizes Fetzer Vineyards’ Brands with a Conscience award from the Medinge Group

07/07/14 Ryder: ‘Post eco-fashion’, Metromix
Caroline Ryder discusses eco-fashion and interviews Summer Rayne Oakes, whose upcoming sustainability book is mentioned

07/07/14 Harper: ‘Elle Gibson is the Cadbury Dream model’, Thread
Elle Gibson wins the Cadbury Dream Model Search—Thread reports from the audience on proceedings

07/07/08 Saunders: ‘Out for a city mission’, Sunday Star–Times, ‘About Town’ supplement, July 8, 2007, p. 9
Jack Yan and Laural Barrett photographed by Norrie Montgomery at Cadbury Dream Model Search ’07

07/07/07 ‘Flash: seen at the Cadbury Dream Model search’, The New Zealand Herald, July 7, 2007, p. A28
Lucire’s Jack Yan among judges for Cadbury Dream Model Search ’07; Elle Gibson the winner

07/07/06 ‘Dream comes true for Northland student in NZ’s biggest model search’, Newswire
Wire service announces Elle Gibson’s win of Cadbury Dream Model Search ’07—she goes on to a Lucire shoot on Monday

07/07/06 Listening Post, al-Jazeera English, July 6, 2007
By invitation, Jack Yan, as a Global Village Voice, comments on Tony Blair after his term as PM

07/07 Hauiti: ‘A conflict in history’, Tu Mai, no. 88, July 2007, pp. 28–9
Jack Yan on Tibet, China and His Holiness the Dalai Lama in leading indigenous magazine

07/06/27 Rosenberg: ‘The Lazy Environmentalist ain’t so lazy after all’, Ecorazzi
Melissa Rosenberg attends Josh Dorfman’s book signing as does Summer Rayne Oakes

07/06/21 Beggy, Shanahan et al: ‘Oakes is a model of eco-friendliness’, The Boston Globe, June 21, 2007
Summer Rayne Oakes speaks at the Foundation Lounge

07/06/20 Karan: ‘Eco-designers take action’, Today’s Zaman
Seda Karan considers Summer Rayne Oakes the eco-movement’s ‘leader’

07/06/20 Oliver: ‘Green is the new black’, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, June 20, 2007
Extensive article on eco-fashion quotes Summer Rayne Oakes

07/06 ‘Rette die Welt—aber bitte mit Stil’, Focus Campus, June 2007, pp. 31–45
Summer Rayne Oakes in a Q&A with German magazine

07/06/18 The New Morning Show, June 18, 2007
Summer Rayne Oakes talks entymology

07/06 Fox NewsChannel, June 18, 2007
Summer Rayne Oakes discusses eco-fashion

07/06/12 ‘Live Earth video contest’, Fashion Office
Austrian site links to MSN–Treehugger video competition; features Summer Rayne Oakes on site

07/06/12 ‘Summer Rayne Oakes among judges for video contest’, Scoop
Summer Rayne Oakes will be part of MSN–Treehugger video contest judging panel

07/06/06 ‘Model result for Tawa girl’, Northern Courier
Ellese Forbes a finalist in Cadbury Dream Model Search—Lucire shoot is one of the prizes

07/06/05 McIntire-Strasburg: ‘MSN and Treehugger present Green Theatre: a Live Earth video contest’, Treehugger
Summer Rayne Oakes among judges for MSN–Treehugger video competition

07/06/04 Robinson (ed.): ‘You're hired! Trump Models judges Auckland’, Thread
Trump Model Management participates in Cadbury Dream Model Search

07/06/02 ‘Jack Yan: TVNZ a negative, sick organization’, Throng
TV viewers’ blog community notes Jack Yan’s negative assessment of TVNZ and the Good Morning show

07/05/30 The Edge FM, New Zealand
Live announcement about the finalists for the Cadbury Dream Model Search, with Lucire proving a mouthful for the DJ

07/05/30 Vodafone Select Live, C4, New Zealand
Joel announces the prize package for the Cadbury Dream Model Search winner on the C4 network, including a Lucire photo shoot

07/05/30 ‘Finalists in NZ’s biggest model search announced’, Scoop
Cadbury Dream Model Search winner will get a Lucire photo shoot

07/05/30 ‘Trump joins hunt for next Kiwi super model’, Scoop
Trump Model Management joins Cadbury Dream Model Search

07/05/28 ‘Beauties dream of the bright lights’, The New Zealand Herald, May 28, 2007
The latest heat of the Cadbury Dream Model Search rolls into Auckland

07/05/27 Zürcher: ‘Summer in the city’, NZZ am Sonntag, May 27, 2007
Article on Summer Rayne Oakes in Zürich newspaper, though it contains several inaccuracies

07/05/27 ‘Miss Universe: Kiwis accuse Aussies over Laural Barrett negative reports’, The Online Wire
Gambling newswire service covers Jack Yan defending Laural Barrett, putting it down to New Zealand–Australian rivalry

07/05/26 Eriksen: ‘Who is Rotorua’s top model?’, The Daily Post, May 26, 2007
Eighty models line up in Rotorua to see who may be in the finals for Cadbury Dream Model Search

07/05/08 ‘Stars align for NYC launch of Replay Organic Blue Jeans’, Ecorazzi
Summer Rayne Oakes hosts Replay organic jeans’ launch in New York

07/05 ‘The model citizen: Summer Rayne Oakes, eco-style queen’, Vanity Fair, May 2007, pp. 252–3
Summer Rayne Oakes in a two-page spread in Condé Nast’s Vanity Fair’s second ‘Green Issue’