From dust to dust
Quentin Tarantino, Hollywood’s perennial über-brat – but lest us forget, high craftsman of the hyperreal – throws up his “slavery epic” Django Unchained with little of his usual charismatic heft. This sadly...
The new Noah’s Ark
Since the dawn of civilisation, capturing animals has been a common practice. At first, human beings were motivated by pure basic instinct – the need to survive – seeking food and protection. Subsequently c...
Eastern promise
Face it – Christmas shopping is a nightmare and here at Glass, we’re no better at it than anyone else. Over the last few weeks, we have ventured out into the freezing London weather with the very best of i...
Budget boutique
A couple of years ago, an architect friend of mine applied to be on the Apprentice UK. He got down to the last 20 shortlisted before being sent home at the final hurdle – his “business plan”. When he outlin...
Mi Casa (blanca) est su Casa (blanca)
“Of all the gin joints on all the world” I ended up at Ric’s Bar Americain in Casablanca in readiness for the city's annual fashion week and started my love affair with Morocco's most business-minded popul...
In her image
On billboards, in the street and on the underground, in television adverts, music videos and from the front covers of newspapers and magazines, before we even get onto the internet, images of lust and sex a...
Still got it: Japan
C’mon, admit it. Japanese creativity bleeds heavily to all corners of art, fashion, design and architecture on a global scale, and more so than many other countries that are credited with a trendsetting nat...
Heavenly bodies
.Sir Patrick Moore, who passed away on Sunday, December 9, 2012, can claim to have had a fantastically interesting life. Not that he would have, as he was too modest. But on speaking to this hero of popular...
On the radar: Io Echo
Dubbed everything from shoegaze to grunge to goth to dark pop to new orientalism (thanks, in part, to the band’s use of Koto harps and Chinese violins in their music), Leopold Ross and Ioanna Gika, who front th...
The power to preserve?
Two men are balancing on a small craft, propelling themselves along a moonlit river using long sticks as oars. There are two more boats ahead. All the half-naked sailors are fishermen, from an indigenous pe...