Anglomania X La Rinascente
Vivienne Westwood reveals a special Anglomania collection this month, created exclusively for Milan’s La Rinascente. The limited collection is an ode to the now-iconic SS 1985 mini-crini collection, and featu...
Tisci holds court at Givenchy Menswear AW14
Above all else, Givenchy’s AW14 mien is case in point that Riccardo Tisci has his finger firmly planted on the pulse of youth-quake forefront, with an acutely on point projection of the ice-cool urban affectati...
Bottega Veneta Menswear AW14
Updating the 21st century male outfit into a metrosexual haven, Bottega Veneta revealed their latest menswear collection for Milan fashion week.
Like previous collections, Bottega Veneta encapsulated their s...
Romantic fallacies
That being an artist is a romantic undertaking still holds true for many; but not Luc Tuymans, whose thinly-smeared, off-register and elusively referential images oscillate between what is depicted and a sh...
Utilitarian Savoir Faire for Louis Vuitton Menswear AW14
A compelling melody of bold, brassy, adventurous trumpets signalled the beginning of Louis Vuitton menswear today in Paris at the Parc André Citroën, enveloped by the cosmic azure of a marble-esque catwalk, rec...
London International Mime Festival – Where boundaries between reality and the imagination are merged
This year marks the 38th year of the London International Mime Festival. With contributions from all over the globe including an Italian take on James Joyce’s renowned 1914 work The Dead from The Cit...
Gieves and Hawkes at London Collections: Men – AW14
When Glass recently met with Gieves and Hawkes’ inspiring and recently appointed creative director Jason Basmajian, the main theme of our discussion to emerge during our discussion was the brand’s need for mod...
The story of fashion week
Since the inception of New York Fashion Week (NYFW) in 1943, semi-annual fashion weeks have come to be the seminal events of the fashion calendar. Indeed, fashion weeks are the place where brands and fashio...
Bharti Kher: Misdemeanours at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
Contemporary artist Bharti Kher will present her first major solo exhibition in Asia at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. Representing a survey of Kher’s work from the early 2000s to the present, Misdemeanou...
Going to the Source
Furniture company, The Source was established by the British designer Adam Collins at the start of 2012 with the aim of creating a small and exclusive collection of hand-crafted furniture designs, as well a...
Vivienne Westwood’s Menswear Show AW14 in Milan
Dame Vivienne Westwood’s AW 14 collection featured on day two of Milan’s menswear shows revealed a surprisingly “tame” collection. Models that resembled Barbie’s boyfriend Ken dolls took us through a series of...
Urban Cowboy Powerplay at Versace Menswear AW14
“Passion and love and sex and money – violence, religion, injustice and death,” the epithets stipulated by the Pet Shop Boys in 1986’s Paninaro, pertaining to the archetypal Italian paninaro boy of the decade. ...
The gift is in the journey
Mr Grumpy hates shopping, specifically the Christmas shopping list and the New Year sales. I have always had to do all the gathering and face the crush of shoppers on Oxford Street alone. So this year I con...
Luxury Link Travel Group Launches In The UK
The Luxury Link Travel Group has recently launched its award-winning travel website in the UK. Based in the US and already recognised as one of the world’s leading luxury travel websites, sophisticated travelle...
Steven Meisel shoots Prada SS 2014 Campaign
Resembling a large sports team, or perhaps a street mob, models of the Prada S/S 2014 photo-shoot channel freedom and strength. Strong, bold rainbow colours mixed with contrasting accents of black and white w...
East meets West
Rue Saint-Honoré is one of the Glass team’s favourite streets in Paris – filled with stores we love, chocolatiers we crave and boulangeries we miss. Perfect for us then that the Mandarin Oriental group have...
A bold new model for womanhood in 2014
In Florence, widely regarded as the most beautiful city in the world, even fashion has infiltrated gastronomy, with the Cavalli Caffè Giacosa providing the perfect haunt for the fashion crowd that attended Pitt...
Elevated Experiences at Langham Place
At the heart of Hong Kong’s liveliest and most fashionable district, Mong Kok, luxury hotel Langham Place has decided to join forces with English designer Thomas Pink. The hotel’s Club floor guests can now enjo...
Apu Jan: The Signal SS14
Apu Jan is scheduled to reveal his next collection at London Fashion week next month. This will be the London-based Taiwanese designer’s third presentation to date at the event. Apu Jan is an alumnus of the Roy...
Tom Ford holds exclusive viewing of AW14 Collection at LC:M
Tom Ford’s viewing of his A/W 2014 line at London Collections: Men was a private viewing event. Guests were greeted by tuxedo-clad gentleman who promptly traded their overcoats for a glass of champagne as they ...
London Collections: Men – Paul Smith British Collection AW 2014
Set in a room full of Persian tapestry carpets and rugs made of the finest high-quality fabrics and designs, Paul Smith’s A/W 2014 British Collection is presented on mannequins and displays throughout the show...