Monthly Archives March 9, 2020

March 5, 2020

ENTITLED, Toying With Elegance, the AW20 Miu Miu collection this season spoke of 80s Glamour and youthful rebellion. Held in the concrete surroundings of Palais d’Iena on the last day of Paris Fashion Week, Miu...

Glass meets Olivier Polge, Chanel’s perfumer

Rachel McCormack

March 5, 2020

Beauty, Feature

Fragrant visions – Glass travels to Grasse, the home of perfume, to meet Olivier Polge, Chanel’s nose, and Joseph Mul, whose farm provides the flowers for the brand’s legendary fragrances Glass is in Pégoma...

PFW AW20: Louis Vuitton

March 4, 2020

ON THE LAST day of Paris Fashion Week, Louis Vuitton’s creative director Nicolas Ghesquière transformed the house’s AW20 showcase at the Louvre into a theatrical piece, where drama played the main character. Th...

Glass looks back at the Edeline Lee show for LFW AW20

March 4, 2020

AS FASHION month comes to an end, Glass looks back at the LFW show that took the fashion crowd to London’s theatre-land. Edeline Lee’s AW20 presentation – held in the acclaimed Apollo Theatre last month – was a...

Your destiny is blue – a beauty story by Kim Brown, art director Liz Sheppard and photographer Chloe Mallett

Tina Unko

March 4, 2020

Art, Beauty, Feature

AS WE cross into a new decade and era – the colour blue (essentially Pantone 19-4052 Classic Blue) reminds us of nature, the sky and ocean. It stabilises our foundation, instilling calm, confidence and co...

PFW AW20: Akris

March 3, 2020

Fashion, Fashion Shows

STAGED IN Paris’ Museum of the Modern Arts (Musée d’art modern de la Ville de Paris), Akris’ AW20 was one of the most artistic and art-abundant shows at the Paris Fashion Week. Being the only Swiss fashion hous...

PFW AW20: Alexander McQueen

March 3, 2020

SIGNED, sealed and delivered was the love letter to the Welsh countryside that informed Sarah Burton’s AW20 collection for Alexander McQueen at Paris Fashion Week this season. A result of visits outside of thei...

PFW AW20: Stella McCartney

March 3, 2020

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“IT’S A JUNGLE out there” – a concept that Stella McCartney has fully embraced in her AW20 fashion show at the Paris Fashion Week. While the British designer is most known for her leather-, fur-, feather-free a...

PFW AW20: Givenchy

Rhiannon Jenkins

March 3, 2020

YESTERDAY evening, Clare Waight Keller took the auditorium for the Givenchy show by storm – almost literally. The rumbling music of the pre-show build-up shook the Hippodrome de Longchamp’s concrete corridors, ...

PFW AW20: Chanel

Cara Jenkins

March 3, 2020

“ROMANTICISM but without any flourishes” perfectly encapsulated the ambiance of Chanel’s AW20 collection, held beneath the intricate dome of the Grand Palais in Paris. The runway show encouraged “energy”, “free...

Glass presents the livestream of the Louis Vuitton AW20 show

Emma Hart

March 3, 2020

Fashion, Feature

GLASS is proud to present the lifestream of Louis Vuitton’s AW20 show. Debuting at Paris Fashion Week, be prepared to immerse yourself in the world of Vuitton in their home city and eternal muse....

Glass gets chauffeur driven to Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons

Katrina Mirpuri

March 3, 2020

Dining, Feature, Food & Drink

I CLOSED my front door and walked towards a gleaming black S-Class Mercedes Benz Saloon that was waiting elegantly on the street. “Good evening Katrina,” said my driver Sergio, before I jumped into the back sea...

PFW AW20: Issey Miyake

March 2, 2020

THE SENSE of joy that recently appointed design director, Satoshi Kondo, presented in his previous SS20 collection for Issey Miyake, was in tune with this season’s theatrical offerings. However, instead of witn...

PFW AW20: Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood

Cara Jenkins

March 2, 2020

SHOWCASED beneath the Baroque ceilings of the decadent Hôtel de Ville in Paris, the Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood’s AW20 collection quintessentially comprised avant-garde, rebellion and self-expressi...

PFW AW20: Valentino

March 2, 2020

MOST OF us tend to associate uniforms with conformity, assimilation and partial cloaking of one’s identity. But not Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli, who has accomplished the complete opposite w...

PFW AW20: Balenciaga

March 2, 2020