July, 2014 - The Glass Magazine

Cerruti 1881 launch FW14 collection in Hong Kong

July 31, 2014

It all comes down to Cerruti 1881 being such a top-drawer during the menswear instalments each season each and every year when Glass gets so excited over the launch of their most recent Fall/Winter collection a...

La Perla’s where the heart is

Livia Feltham

July 31, 2014

Feature

Home is where the heart is, and though the Bologna-born brand La Perla has now found a new home on Old Bond Street in their fabulous new boutique, the Italianate embassy still has all the heart. Ever since La...

LUX* Resorts and Hotels expand into China

Amanda Bernstein

July 30, 2014

Asia, China, Culture, Feature, News, Travel

LUX* Resorts & Hotels (“LUX*”) announced the LUX* Tea Horse Road (LUX* Chamadao) as the foundation for its planned expansion into China. On account of its largely undiscovered yet spectacular natural beauty...

A stand-up guy – Actor Eros Vlahos talks about having 15th century hair and how he never really grew out of playing dress up

Natalie Egling

July 30, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

A stand-up guy – Actor Eros Vlahos talks about having 15th century hair and how he never really grew out of playing dress up At only 19, London-born Eros Vlahos has racked up an impressive list of big-deal a...

Aquascutum AW14 Womenswear Collection

Livia Feltham

July 29, 2014

News

Aquascutum will always be synonymous with Britishness, but as of late there has been a slight trend emerging each season at the brand famed for unifying the United Kingdom’s famous tailoring with fashionable mo...

Bella Freud launches her first Eau de Parfums created by Azzi Glasser

Viola Levy

July 29, 2014

News

Few perfumers are as inspiring to chat to, or as passionate about their subject as Azzi Glasser. Her colourful career has seen her create scents for well-known brands such as Agent Provocateur, Space NK and Jas...

Art and the post-post-modern self

Stephanie Clair

July 29, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Entering the exhibition, Don’t You Know Who I Am?, one is immediately faced with an extensive arrangement of mis-matched chairs from various eras and in various styles. Abstract, slightly confusin...

Hypothesis for an Exhibition. Giulio Paolini at Dominique Lévy, New York

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

July 28, 2014

Avant Art, Culture

The title Hypothesis for an Exhibition is a clear reference to Paolini’s 1963 work Ipotesi Per Una Mostra, which Giulio Paolini produced for his first exhibition for La Tortuga gallery in Rome but remained unre...

Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

July 28, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

It’s not just a coincidence that the Whitechapel Gallery announces its landmark abstract art exhibition for 2015. The Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool are currently displaying exhibitions of two major abstract a...

Hermès announce new artistic director for women’s RTW

Livia Feltham

July 28, 2014

News

Meanwhile in Paris this past week, Hermès has spoken; Lemaire is out and Vanhee-Cybulski is in. Usurping the previous head of design at Hermès, Christophe Lemaire, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski has officially taken on...

A great Gaelic escape

Viola Levy

July 28, 2014

Beauty, Culture, Destination Spas, Europe, Feature, News, Travel, United Kingdom

It’s not everyday your masseuse demands “Give me a hug!” at the end of a treatment. But in the case of Melissa, my deceivingly petite South African therapist at Galgorm Resort and Spa, I’m happy t...

British Fashion Council and Ebay launch BFC Contemporary initiative

Livia Feltham

July 25, 2014

News

One thing’s for certain, the BFC certainly has initiative and as of this week, they have a brand new one in place as well. This comes after this week’s launch of the BFC Contemporary initiative, in partnership ...

Lydia Yee announced New Chief Curator at Whitechapel Gallery

Xenia Founta

July 25, 2014

Culture, News

Lydia Yee has been appointed the New Chief Curator at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. Joining the over-a-century-old gallery and working closely with the Director Iwona Blazwick, Ms Yee will guide a broad program...

Shadows of rebellion

Samantha Kuok Leese

July 25, 2014

Archive, Art, China, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, Travel

In a series of rare interviews, Glass speaks to four of China’s greatest poets to discover the underground movement that inspired a nation. I’m a poet, I’m the shadow of rebellion. Let it be t...

Sky high luxury in East London

Stephanie Clair

July 24, 2014

Feature, Glass Design

Cast an eye over the East London skyline, and apart from the small cluster of commercial buildings in Liverpool Street, you’ll see few skyscrapers, and even fewer residential ones. It’s a differen...

Jean-Paul Gaultier launches Classique Intense

Viola Levy

July 23, 2014

News

Nothing exudes boudoir glamour as much as Jean-Paul Gaultier’s signature corsets, famously worn by Madonna as part of her Blonde Ambition tour in the 1990s, or more recently, by androgynous male model Andrej Pe...

Natural progression

Livia Feltham

July 23, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, News

The very first major solo exhibition is a turning point for any artist, though when it comes to Caroline Jane Harris, an artist whose innate instinct for what’s in the detail continues to astonish us, it’s a ...

Givenchy flagship store opens in Hong Kong’s Ocean Centre

Livia Feltham

July 22, 2014

News

Givenchy doesn’t just open a new store; they unlock the doors to sanctified ground. Their new duplex flagship in Hong Kong’s Ocean Centre shopping mall maintains this exact fashion philosophy with an aristocrat...

Great balls of fire (and water)

Lucienne Leung-Davies

July 22, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, News

Galerie Perrotin Hong Kong invited French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel to create site- specific sculptures. Othoniel is well known for his works of colourful giant glass “necklaces”— the Pavilion o...

Bernstock Speirs website launched

Marie-Louise von Haselberg

July 21, 2014

News

In celebration of their newly launched website, mad hatters Bernstock Speirs have commissioned a film by Romain Sellier, entitled Bunny Love. Their new e-shop will be making their designs available to a wide...

Alexander McQueen AW14 ad campaign launched

Livia Feltham

July 21, 2014

advert, Culture, Fashion, Feature, Glass Models, News, Photography

When Alexander McQueen does dark romance at the hands of photographer Steven Klein, every party involved does dark romance. Making a star symbol of British model Edie Campbell, the AW14 campaign captures the wi...

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