PFW SS17: Dior
IT WAS Dior Couture’s Chief Executive Sidney Toledano who hinted back in July soon after Maria Grazia Chiuri was appointed Creative Director of the brand that the world should “expect a new Dior”. After receivi...
PFW SS17: Rick Owens
DARKNESS descended on the Rick Owens SS17 show in Paris this week. Staged in a coiling stone vault, the models upheld the same bold walk as seen in previous collections – again with human deterioration in mind,...
Plaitum release hypnotic video for MYO
ELECTRO-pop duo Plaitum have just put out a stunning new music video for their new song MYO, taken from the band’s most recent double A-side release Grace Hits/MYO. The single is out now via Wolf Tone records. ...
Glass meets Patti and Bill Dilworth, guardians of Walter De Maria’s Broken Kilometer and New York Earth Room
INCONSPICUOUSLY nestled within the streets of New York’s Soho, Dia Art Foundation commissioned and has been quietly maintaining two mammoth installations by Walter De Maria since the late 1970s. The text on Dia...
PFW SS17: Dries Van Noten
THE SS17 show staged by Dries Van Noten very much resembled an art presentation. Models with a shadow stripe over their eyes or net veil covering their face were walking around flower installations trapped with...
PFW SS17: Saint Laurent
PARIS Fashion Week, SS17 – a season that will go down in fashion history as expectation rises in anticipation of how three of the fashion capital’s most high-profile houses will measure up under new creative di...
Glass reviews Lauren Baker’s solo show at M&C Saatchi, London
JUST as the off switch could be close to being hit, the trend for neon continues. Ne-on manages to keep-on. There seems a strong divide between those who love neon and those who hate it, making it the veritable...
PFW SS17: Lanvin
BOUCHRA Jarrar presented her first runway show for Lanvin for PFW SS17 – after having already presented an earlier Resort collection – which she staged against the backdrop of Salon de l‘Hôtel de Ville with a b...
New Model Army – Glass meets Alexxia Hipchen
Name: Alexxia Hipchen
Nationality: American
Agency: New York Models
Age: 18
Alexxia Hipchen. Photograph: Ssam Kim
How did you become a model?
I have always been interested with how photography i...
Glass partners with Autistica in the lead up to Frieze London 2016
In the run up to World Mental Health Day next month, UK’s leading autism research charity and Deutsche Bank’s Charity of the Year Autistica will explore the complexity of the mind and how mental health issues a...
Lily Loveless talks to Glass about her most recent project – Set the Thames on Fire
HACKNEY-born actor Lily Loveless started her acting career as Naomi Campbell (no, not that one) in the second season of Channel 4’s award-winning drama Skins and since then she hasn’t stopped working, appearing...
MFW SS17: Marni
THERE was an apparent shift towards simplicity at Marni this season. The fashion house known for eclectic prints opened its SS17 show with a series of white and ivory looks and closed with a couple of black one...
Flat after LFW? Glass checks into the Zetter Townhouse Marylebone for a well-deserved rest
MARYLEBONE perhaps wouldn’t be the first place you might look for a quiet escape but you’d be surprised when walking through the townhouse doors at the Zetter Townhouse here to find a cosy world of stylish Vic...
MFW SS17: Dolce & Gabbana
DOLCE & Gabbana gave SS17 a no-holds-barred I.T.A.L.I.A.N bonanza in Milan. Going heavy on the hot, spicy hometown influences stemming from Sicily and other islands Capri, Ischia, Pantelleria, and Capri, St...
MFW SS17: Versace
DONATELLA Versace did what she knows best – rallying female strength in sartorial form – in Milan for SS17. To do so, Donatella stuck to her sports-luxe guns for another season. Odd, as luxurious and glamorous ...
MFW SS17: Salvatore Ferregamo
THIS season Salvatore Ferragamo’s design team delightfully sticks to the house’s stylistic heritage, while allowing for some contemporary experimentation. This came from dainty day dresses decorated with artful...
MFW SS17: Bottega Veneta
THIS international show season is all about the spectacle. And Tomas Maier made sure to throw one of those to mark Bottega Veneta’s 50th anniversary. The show, presenting both women’s and men’s collections, was...
MFW SS17: Prada
MIUCCIA Prada presented an elegant and “safer”, albeit, beautiful collection for SS17. And intentionally so. But this is Prada we’re talking about, hence a mix of different prints, bold colours, ostrich and mar...
MFW SS17: Roberto Cavalli
PETER Dundas at Roberto Cavalli is doing a nifty job creating the kind of clothing Cavalli’s consumer base want to be liked in. Liked, that is, not just in life but perhaps more importantly online, by hordes of...
MFW SS17: Moschino
JEREMY Scott’s Moschino dolls dominated the SS17 Moschino catwalk in Milan. Deriving inspiration from Valley of the Dolls, the startling in 1966 novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann and subsequent 1967 fi...
MFW SS17: Giorgio Armani
GIORGIO Armani engineered complete elegance for his SS17 collection presented in Milan. Ticking all the boxes neatly within the tick box yet again, summertime sheerness was omnipresent from start to finish in a...