NYFW SS20: Marc Jacobs
THE spark of New York Fashion Week is back. It is unclear as to whether it is due to the decision of the new CFDA chairman, Tom Ford, to cut Fashion Week from seven days to five or something else. Either way, t...
NYFW SS20: 3.1 Phillip Lim
PHILLIP Lim is a designer who knows his brand values and his customers to the core. His choice to stage a co-ed show – his first in years – yesterday in a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn was smart, just like ...
NYFW AW2019: Prabal Gurung
A CORNUCOPIA of colour dominated the runway Sunday night during Prabal Gurung’s AW2019 show in New York. The collection, which the Nepalese-American designer titled Suitcases of the World, was envisioned throug...
PFW SS19: Givenchy
GIVENCHY's Artistic Director Clare Waight Keller explored definitions and limits of gender in her Spring/Summer 2019 collection, which showed in Paris yesterday. The androgynous collection, themed "I Am Your Mi...
MFW SS19: Missoni
FASHION, like music, is at its most powerful when it sets a mood: it can evoke a feeling, a sense of timelessness in which you get lost in the beauty and drama of the art. The Missoni  SS19 collection at MFW wa...
Evolution, Not Revolution: Glass interviews David Koma
IT HAS been an active year full of uproar and discord, both in fashion and in the world at large. Some of this has been the natural progress of time, with fashion companies moving to younger, more for...
PFW AW17: Chanel
SPACE is the final frontier – and one for which fashion has always had a continuing fascination. Given that Karl Lagerfeld is far and away the master of dramatic presentation, it is fitting that he chose space ...
PWF AW17: Dior
EMPOWERMENT is a word that evokes images of suffragettes in white or, more recently, hundreds of thousands of people marching in protest. In the hands of Maria Grazia Chiuri in her latest ready-to-wear collecti...
MFW AW17: Fendi
UNDER the creative leadership of Karl Lagerfeld, a Fendi collection can go in many directions – never boring – but always sets you thinking.
The Fendi AW17 shows the inimitable power of Lagerfeld and accesso...
LFW AW17: Eudon Choi
SEASON after season, fashion shows offer rare insight into a designer's development and evolution, both on a brand and a personal level.
It has been a great pleasure to watch Eudon Choi's growth and artistry ...
NYFW AW17: Cushnie et Ochs
SULTRY sophistication ruled the runway the Cushnie et Ochs AW17 collection at New York Fashion Week on Friday. It is an exciting step forward for founders Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs, taking the bodycon...
Paris Couture SS17: Armani Privé
ORANGE is a hard colour to ignore and even harder to wear. Yet, once you consider the vast differentiation among shades, orange, like all colours, becomes more versatile and achieves new life through relation t...
Paris Couture SS2017: Elie Saab
THE divide between love and lust can often be hard to distinguish, given the similar rush of emotions and physical response. This confusion is oddly an interesting model for observing the distinctions between h...
Paris Couture SS17: Dior
IT was a Renaissance fair fit for a faery nymph, albeit a well-dressed one, at Christian Dior's Couture Spring/Summer 2017 show earlier this week in Paris. Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first couture Dior collection wa...
Paris Couture SS17: Chanel
It is one of the strongest years yet for couture, appropriately in response to the troubled global political climate. Couture, after all, works best when it lifts up and envelops the watcher with a rarefied moo...
Paris Menswear AW17: Comme des Garçons
MASCULINITY, like femininity, is an historically- inherited gender norm that is being redefined over time. The term boyhood calls to mind images of innocent play, mischievous schemes and boundless energy to exp...
Milan Menswear AW17 Fendi
IF Fendi is anything, it is fashion with a dash of the unexpected and the Italian brand’s men’s AW 17 show did not disappoint. Upgraded basics, like track suits, blousons and blazers blended with pieces that we...
Glass talks to US-accessories designer Tyler Ellis as she rebrands her line
YOUNG designers are a mixed bunch of vision, passion and energy. But, Tyler Ellis is in a category all her own, with an innate appreciation of provenance and good business sense, to boot.
Ellis, the daughter...
LFW SS16 recap: Fashion Scout ones to watch
The future of fashion, despite being always under debate, somehow manages to fly under the radar most Fashion Weeks. Yet, for 19 seasons, Fashion Scout has been showcasing the latest creations of emerging desig...
LFW SS16 Recap: Burberry Prorsum
Whenever Fashion Week rolls around, we always rely upon Burberry to do something unexpected. This season, the Burberry Prorsum SS16 show, held in London’s Hyde Park, was certainly no disappointment, replete wit...
The American Dream
The Dream Hotel Downtown, situated conveniently in the middle of the revivified Meatpacking District, is an oasis of all that is stylish, fashionable and convenient. In a city full of luxury accommodation, ...