Nicola Kavanagh - The Glass Magazine

Glass attends premiere of Chloe Sevigny’s short film for Miu Miu

February 20, 2017

EVER since 2011, Miu Miu has produced a series of short films, Women’s Tales, directed by the most distinguished female directors in the world. First presented at the Venice Film Festival this series became a c...

Glass meets … Victor Skrebneski, one of fashion’s greatest photographers

Nicola Kavanagh

January 13, 2017

Art, Feature, Photography

Victor Skrebneski – One of fashion’s greatest photographers recounts a life in pursuit of art VICTOR Skrebneski is part of the founding generation of fashion photography as we know it today. A peer of previo...

My Model Life – Glass meets the fashion icon that is Kasia Struss

Nicola Kavanagh

January 3, 2017

Fashion, Feature, Glass Models

KASIA Struss is one of the most successful models of her generation. Discovered in 2005, she has worked non-stop at the pinnacle of fashion for the past decade. In her debut season she achieved what most models...

Glass meets modelling and acting phenomenon Milla Jovovich

Nicola Kavanagh

December 16, 2016

Fashion, Feature

Girl with the golden touch – Glass meets phenomenon Milla Jovovich THE legendary Herb Ritts discovered you and shot your first cover when you were just 12. How did he come to stumble upon you, and do you rem...

Glass attends Chanel Métiers D’Art 2016/17

Nicola Kavanagh

December 8, 2016

Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature

IT’S no surprise that Chanel’s 2017 Métiers D’Art show took place at the Ritz hotel where Karl Largerfeld led the brand’s return to Paris yesterday. The hotel is intimately linked to the life of Coco Chanel, it...

Glass discovers the best of the old and the new sanctuaries on Mallorca’s idyllic east coast

Nicola Kavanagh

August 30, 2016

Feature, Spain, Travel

SITUATED on the unspoilt and almost completely undeveloped east coast of Mallorca lies a tiny but beautiful bay in the town of Canyamel. I had first visited the bay when I was five years old and remem...

From the Glass Archive – Greats of photography, Glass interviews Albert Watson

Nicola Kavanagh

July 22, 2016

Feature, Photography

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From the Glass Archive: Greats of photography – Albert, the Pragmatic Albert Watson, named as one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time alongside icons such as Richard Avedon and Irving Penn,...

An Amnesty International vigil for Raif Badawi in Vienna, Austria. January 2015. The Saudi arabian government sentanced Raif Badawi to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes in May 2014. He was convicted of insulting Islam through his writings and on his website, which was set up to encourage public debate

United We Stand – Glass talks to Salil Shetty Secretary General of Amnesty international

Nicola Kavanagh

July 1, 2016

Archive, Feature

United We Stand – Glass asks Amnesty International how their uniting of voices is bringing about remarkable results around the world AMNESTY International is one of the largest and most powerful bodies promo...

From the archive – Glass spends a day in Paris with the inimitable Audrey Tautou

Nicola Kavanagh

April 1, 2016

Culture, Feature, Film

FROM the Glass archive – Talented, accomplished, beautiful. Glass spends a day in Paris with one of its finest exports, the inimitable Audrey Tautou Audrey Tautou is one of those rare birds. She is simultaneou...

Thinking things right – Glass talks to Sara Pantuliano of the Overseas Development Institute

Nicola Kavanagh

January 29, 2016

Archive, Feature, Human Rights

Thinking things right – Glass learns about the new role of aid in the modern era, better methods for its delivery and how hair extensions are giving subjugated women their dignity back Within two minutes of ...

Glass talks to Jamileh Kamran – the designer behind some of Hillary Clinton’s defining fashion moments

Nicola Kavanagh

January 26, 2016

Fashion, Feature

Dressed for success – As Hillary Clinton makes her bid for president, Glass meets Jamileh Kamran, the designer behind some of her defining fashion moments Few people have heard of Little Rock, Arkansas, even...

Glass meets one of the most exciting young actors in Hollywood – Jena Malone

Nicola Kavanagh

January 8, 2016

Don't Miss: Film, Feature, Glass Talents

Jena Malone – On a sweltering LA day, Glass meets one of the most exciting young actors in Hollywood Jena Malone is like a rare bird that appears sporadically enough to keep people enchanted by her, yet not so...

Glass meets actor and producer Michaela Conlin, star of US hit TV show Bones

Nicola Kavanagh

December 10, 2015

Cinema, Feature, Television

Few can boast a lifetime of doing what they love and following their greatest passion and actor and producer Michaela Conlin, star of Fox’s hit television show Bones, is one of those few. From the humble and ad...

Glass interviews Silvia Venturini Fendi – creative director of Fendi

Nicola Kavanagh

November 10, 2015

Fashion, Feature

Fendi – A Design for life: Silvia Venturini Fendi talks Glass through the inimitable experience of growing up in one of the ultimate Italian success stories On hearing the name Fendi, one immediately conjure...

Power and grace – Glass meets German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott one of the youngest and most prodigious classical musicians of our time

Nicola Kavanagh

October 23, 2015

Culture, Music

Power and grace – Glass meets German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott one of the youngest and most prodigious classical musicians of our time Alice Sara Ott has become one of the youngest and most ...

Moments in time

Nicola Kavanagh

October 2, 2015

Archive, Art, Feature, Photography

Twice president of Magnum, who died in June this year, photographer Charles Harbutt talks us through an extraordinary career and its seminal moments. Glass celebrates the career of this eminent image maker J...

NYFW SS16: Tommy Hilfiger

Nicola Kavanagh

September 16, 2015

Fashion Shows, News

The patriarch of American fashion, Tommy Hilfiger, took a rare step away from his beloved red, white and blue this season to present a more tropical and exotic interpretation of the all-American girl. The sunn...

Power play

Nicola Kavanagh

September 11, 2015

Archive, Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

“The purpose of playing,” says Hamlet, “Is, to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” And so it is...

The Glass library

Nicola Kavanagh

September 9, 2015

Books, Feature

“When we arrived in Paris, Rei Kawakubo and I, we weren’t completely aware of what we were doing” – Yohji Yamamoto. And so it started: yet another remarkable chapter in the life of this humblest of...

The outsider

Nicola Kavanagh

August 21, 2015

Archive, Don't Miss: Film, Feature

On a scorching August morning in Biarritz, France’s surfer paradise South West coast, the promenade is thronging with holidaymakers as they idle their way to the beach. The Glass shoot team, consisting of a ph...

Mixing business with pleasure

Nicola Kavanagh

August 12, 2015

Culture of Commerce, Dining, Feature

According to surveys, between 55 per cent and 63 per cent of people want to set up their own business. But with 50 per cent of small companies failing in the first year, how do you guarantee your business’s sur...

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