The original IT Girl
“This girl was the real thing. Someone to stir every pulse in the nation” F Scott Fitzgerald Clara Bow was Hollywood’s first sex symbol, predating Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe for being unashamedly fe...
Diary of a lost girl – Glass looks at the career of the iconic film star Louise Brooks
“A well-dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.” No actress epitomised the glamour, the excitement or the burgeoning sexuality of the 1920s like Louise Brook...
Yellow Frosted Willow
The actress Anna May Wong achieved global stardom against a back drop of racism, bigotry and sexism. Her considerable self belief and will power would be the only things that maintained her at a time when t...
The Changing of the Guard
There was a time when a royal warrant sealed a brand’s reputation. The stiff upper lip and old boys club of Burlington Arcade ensured you were at least halfway to becoming an icon. It didn’t matter if the p...
A year long date with beauty
How many teenage fantasies and workmen’s dreams have begun with a picture from a calendar? Miss August and Mr (whoever he) May (be) have kept smiles on the faces of innocent girls and jaded workers from Janua...