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This February, Luxembourg & Dayan London, highlights Lucien Freud’s unique creative vision by exhibiting two key nude portraits by the late artist.
If there is one thing Lucien Freud is known for, as...
Créme de la Mer Host Skinnovation Clinic at Harrods
Whenever someone talks about Créme de la Mer, it’s our policy at Glass to sit up and take notice. So on Thursday, February 13, you’ll find us hotfooting it down to Harrods where the brand’s ambassador Diane Inv...
Housing luxury – Glass explores the significance of the flagship store
The launch of a flagship store, such as the openings of the Burberry flagship on Regent Street, London in 2013 and the Louis Vuitton flagship on Bond Street in 2011, is symptomatic of a trend among fashion hous...
Comme de Garcons Homme Plus Collection
Japanese fashion designer and founder of Commes de Garcons Rei Kawakubo brought guests of her mens catwalk show in Paris this month back in a time machine to the Victorian and Edwardian period. A noticeable the...
Jean Paul Gaultier’s Butterfly Couture Spring 2014
French couture designer Jean Paul Gaultier revealed his couture collection via a runway full of burlesque models in Paris yesterday. The collection was every bit a theatrical production as it was catwalk show....
Suited secrets
As the sartorial crowds of the big smoke prepared to celebrate men’s fashion with London Collections: Men, the Museum of London has worked towards exposing the complexities of the suit by hosting an exhibit...
Black dominates Hermes Menswear A/W 14/15 Collection
French designer for over 25 years, Veronique Nichanian is the artistic director of Hermes luxury menswear. She wanted her autumn 2014/15 collection's jackets to be inspired by the jockey, and describes the jac...
Natural selection
An emerging talent on the accessory scene, Nathalie Trad takes inspiration from nature’s complex forms and the ever-infolding possibilities within them, comprising of sinuous outlines, deconstruc...
Shu Qui in Chanel Sous le Signe du Lion Jewellery exhibition
Taiwanese actress Shu Qi appeared in a total Chanel look, at Chanel Sous Le Signe du Lion Jewellery Exhibition, in Bejing, China. She posed wearing Chanel 2013 Fall/Winter Haute Couture, a total black coat and ...
Human Nature – Zuhair Murad Haute Couture Spring 2014
On Thursday for Lebanese-born Zuhair Murad, the treasured tour de force of the most A-list acclaimed red carpet offerings, the grace of flora and the zest of a fairy-tale fauna colour palette, reigned supreme.
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Frank Sorbier SS14 Haute Couture – Voyages
Frank Sorbier once again proves that he is the artisan poète of haute couture, a showman. With a backdrop of a towering mechanical straw figure, his seasonal reflection begins with Gulliver’s Travels – beyond t...
Valentino SS14 Haute Couture
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaola Piccioli truly know how to thrill and win over the cognoscenti. The duo has yet again created a fantastical collection, yet this time with an unexpected turn in direction. Ever...
Mighty be our powers – Glass interviews Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activis
Leymah Gbowee would describe herself as an ordinary woman from an average suburb of Monrovia, the capital in Liberia. Up until the age of 17 she enjoyed a normal life in a supportive environment and w...
Louis Vuitton Townhouse – The Making Of
Last November marked the opening of the most anticipated new Louis Vuitton concession store inside the iconic department Selfridges, in London. Created by the Japanese-based designer, Gwenaël Nicolas, the Townh...
Maison Martin Margiela Haute Couture Spring 2014
At first glance the Maison Martin Margiela design team seems to have ransacked the glory-hole of puckish compulsive collector to build this mesmerising yet overstimulating Spring 2014 - unusual - material trium...
The Chic of Araby – Armani Privé Spring 2014
Advancing like fearless serpentine creatures of the Orient, Giorgio Armani’s exotic artillery, which was out on full force on Tuesday night in Paris, has marked another success for the Italian designer, who unb...
Punk Couture
Couture. It’s a powerful word, one which instantly commands connotations of grandeur and beauty. But Ziad Ghanem’s design vision is one which redefines the word, viewing the beauty of bespoke through a thor...
Yiqing Yin SS14 Haute Couture MOTH Collection
French designer Yiqing Yin launched her Spring Summer 14 haute couture collection MOTH at Paris Fashion Week. Immigrating from China as a four-year-old girl, Yiqing has lived her life in many different part...
Elie Saab SS14 Haute Couture – The Promise of Spring
Transforming the modern women into a fairytale protagonist, Elie Saab’s new Haute Couture spring/summer 14 collection has redefined femininity.
With a consistent, romanticised colour palette of pastels thrus...
SSENSE presents Fluid Silhouettes
Canadian luxury boutique SSENSE reveals Fluid Silhouettes: a collaborative project with London-based fashion film director Jesse Kanda and Brooklyn’s UNO NYC producer Arca.
The mini-film combines Kanda’s sig...
The future of fashion is now
The new, the exciting, the innovative is the life-breath of fashion and no one knows it better than the two leading agencies promoting the new names who will breakthrough in the near future. Known for their...