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Saint Laurent present their SS21 collection

December 18, 2020

SAINT Laurent presented their much-anticipated SS21 collection on a sand ridge in the Saharan desert this week. Inspired by Yves Saint Laurent’s Algerian roots, the show is influenced, in Creative Director Anth...

Richard Mille launch the RM 65-01 Automatic Split Seconds Chronograph

Connie de Pelet

December 17, 2020

Jewellery and Watches, Menswear, News

RICHARD Mille launch the new RM 65-01 Automatic Split Seconds Chronograph, a sports watch that unites Mille’s characteristic qualities of high performance style and function. The time piece underwent five years...

Glass preview Tess Jaray’s Geometries at the New Art Centre, Salisbury

Connie de Pelet

December 16, 2020

Art, Exhibitions, News

TESS Jaray’s new exhibition, Geometries will open at the New Art Centre in Salisbury in January. Jaray, known for her often large scale abstract works, will exhibit a series of new works that continue to explor...

Dior unveils the fifth Dior Lady Art collection

Connie de Pelet

December 14, 2020

Fashion, News

THE fifth Dior Lady Art collection’s spectrum of designers and their respective iterations of the Dior Lady bag are intended to map the multifaceted identity of today’s Dior woman. The 10 designers come from ar...

Glass interviews K-Pop superstar Kevin Woo

Connie de Pelet

December 11, 2020

Culture, Feature, Music

AGED only 28, Kevin Woo has come to be known as a veteran of K-pop. His voice and charm have propelled him through a multifaceted career – television presenter, social media star, TikTok sensation, band frontma...

Cartier unveil new iterations of their Clash de Cartier collection

Connie de Pelet

December 10, 2020

Fashion, Jewellery and Watches, News

CARTIER have unveiled two new iterations of the Clash de Cartier collection: Supple and XL. The collection, characterised by studs, clous carrés and beads that line pieces forming a structural mesh against the ...

Roger Vivier present their new festive film – Never-ending Christmas

Connie de Pelet

December 9, 2020

Fashion

THE classic French shoe makers Roger Vivier have launched their annual Christmas film, starring actress Virginie Ledoyen. The film was inspired by Creative Director Gherardo Felloni’s vision of a never-ending C...

Glass interviews artist Alina Zamanova

Connie de Pelet

December 3, 2020

Art, Avant Art, Exhibitions, Feature

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ALINA Zamanova’s work exists at an apex of ugliness and beauty. She paints high-fashion abstractions of beautiful women: figures contorted into alien forms, swollen and skinny at once. Her practice is rooted in...

National Gallery to reopen this week – post-lockdown

Connie de Pelet

November 30, 2020

Art, Exhibitions, News

THIS Wednesday, December 2 the National Gallery will reopen after a brief closure during national lockdown. Visitors will once again be able to visit the much acclaimed Artemisia exhibition in the gallery's Sal...

Glass previews Jennifer Packer at the Serpentine Gallery

Connie de Pelet

November 30, 2020

Art, Exhibitions, News

AS GALLERIES open up again in the wake of lockdown 2.0, the Serpentine will exhibit Jennifer Packer’s The Eye is Not Satisfied with Seeing, an exhibition which deals with ideas around care, racial politics and ...

Richard Mille launch the RM 71-02 Automatic Tourbillon Talisman

Connie de Pelet

November 25, 2020

Fashion, Jewellery and Watches, News

RICHARD Mille’s Creative and Development Director, Cécile Guerat, found inspiration for the brand's latest watch in the 1970s. She notes that the “intense glamour of the disco era resided in a multiplication of...

Glass reviews Turner‘s Modern World at the Tate Britain

Connie de Pelet

November 3, 2020

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

TURNER’S Modern World has opened at Tate Britain. A powerful exhibition spanning JMW Turner’s career, the show presents Turner and his paintings as explorations of the time he was living in; musings on rapidly...

New brand PSA skincare launches at ASOS

Connie de Pelet

October 23, 2020

Beauty, Skincare

NEW brand PSA Skincare launches today at ASOS. The brand’s name stands for Purposeful Skincare by Allies; the line was developed by Nicolas Travis as the little sister brand to Allies of Skin, intended to provi...

Chila Kumari Singh Burman to Undertake 2020 Winter Commission for Tate Britain

Connie de Pelet

October 22, 2020

Art, Exhibitions, News

FOR THIS year’s Winter Commission, Tate Britain will welcome the work of Chila Kumari Singh Burman, self described Punjabi Liverpudlian and multi disciplinary artist. Burman’s contribution will mark the fourth ...

Ashley Williams releases SS21 lookbook

Connie de Pelet

October 19, 2020

Fashion, News

SACCHARINE and sour, delicately tailored and grossly adorned, Ashley Williams delivers an SS21 collection that ostentatiously embodies everything she stands for. Summed this season as “punk, pop, pretty and per...

Glass previews Fragmented – an exhibition at Zuleika Gallery, London

Connie de Pelet

October 16, 2020

Art, Exhibitions, News

IN THE midst of the divisions and reinterpretations demanded by the experience of living through Covid-19, Zukleika Gallery presents an exhibition of the works made by abstract painter Frances Aviva Blane and a...

Glass previews the Betty Catroux exhibition at Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Paris

Connie de Pelet

October 9, 2020

Art, Exhibitions, Fashion, News, Photography

THE MUSÉE Yves Saint Laurent in Paris has opened its doors to the public once again in the wake of eased Covid-19 measures. Betty Catroux, Feminine Singular, an exhibition paying homage to the style and and inf...

Aesop announces its plans for Closing the Loop

Connie de Pelet

October 9, 2020

Beauty, Haircare, News, Skincare

AS PART of their intention to become B Corp certified by the end of 2020, Aesop have announced their plans for circularity within their packaging, and have collaborated with Raeburn, a leader in responsible des...

PFW SS21: Maison Margiela

Connie de Pelet

October 7, 2020

Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature

FOR MAISON Margiela’s co-ed collection, their genderless iteration of ready-to-wear, John Galliano delivered a sequel to his Artisanal presentation: S.W.A.L.K. II. The film was part documentation of his creati...

PFW SS21: Miu Miu

Connie de Pelet

October 7, 2020

Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature

MIU MIU's SS21 presentation took place in a futuristic ‘sports palace’ a venue that embodied Miuccia Prada's musing on the polarity of our recent experiences. She describes these as “polar times”, times that de...

PFW SS21: Issey Miyake

Connie de Pelet

October 4, 2020

Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature

ISSEY Miyake’s presentation opened with a series of shots of SS21 pieces on plinths or laid on the floor: clothes positioned before their viewers like works of art in an exhibition. The show space was set up li...

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