NYFW SS16: Tommy Hilfiger
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
“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
“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
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
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...
LA stargazing
As you pull up to the Chamberlain West Hollywood in LA it is easy to feel that you might have come to the wrong address. Having researched ahead of my trip on the hotel’s website and seen glamorous interiors, a...
Soaking up the je ne sais quoi
Parisian chic – that certain je ne sais quoi that many of us Brits like to try to absorb on long weekends across the channel – is an elusive attribute. There are places in the city, however, where the essence o...
A secret sanctuary
The 16th arrondisement in Paris, much like New York’s Upper East Side or London’s Knightsbridge, is a district synonymous with affluence and prestige. It is also the largest, with the grand Palais de Chaill...
LFW AW15: Burberry Prorsum
How many times can you reinvent a Burberry trench coat? If your name is Christopher Bailey, the answer is ‘infinitely’. Season after season Burberry’s maverick Creative Director has found ever more imaginative ...
A little out of the ordinary – Glass stays at L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche
A little out of the ordinary – Glass stays at L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche
The charming and petite L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche (Left Bank) is one of the last vestiges of a bohemian and artistic society ...
PFW SS15: Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake is one of those houses that quietly smiles to itself while weaving away dreams of its own fancy and remaining absolutely unphased by passing trends and fickle social mores. The house has always ref...
PFW SS15: Dior
If you’re ever running late to a Dior show and are not sure where to go, just look for the enormous crowd clogging up Rue de Rivoli and listen for the angry horns of drivers who can’t move for all the high-heel...
Immortal melody
They are some of the greatest masterpieces ever written by humankind but what does the future hold for such specialist art forms as classical music and opera? What relevance do they hold in modern society and w...
Magical Madrid
Madrid is one of the few European cities that has succeeded in retaining the overwhelming charm and authenticity of its mother culture – as the Spanish are wont to do so valiantly. Indeed, they ar...
Be original or die
At Glass we have always prided ourselves on championing the forgotten pioneers of fashion and photography but there can be none greater than Madame Yevonde. Born Yevonde Thilone Cumbers in 1893, a...
LFW: Burberry Prorsum AW 2014
Burberry is always the highlight of London Fashion Week and today’s show captured the finest of what British enterprise has to offer. Set in the pretty, tranquil Kensington Gardens and with London’s unpredictab...
The simple life
Starting her modelling career at the age of 17, Sui He has already achieved huge feats in the fashion industry. She was the first Asian face to open a Ralph Lauren show, the first Asian face of Ja...
Mighty be our powers – Glass interviews Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activis
Leymah Gbowee would describe herself as an ordinary woman from an average suburb of Monrovia, the capital in Liberia. Up until the age of 17 she enjoyed a normal life in a supportive environment and w...
East meets West
Rue Saint-Honoré is one of the Glass team’s favourite streets in Paris – filled with stores we love, chocolatiers we crave and boulangeries we miss. Perfect for us then that the Mandarin Oriental group have...
When you laugh, the world laughs with you
As a student during the 1990s, Yue Minjun found himself in a deeply disillusioned China. In the wake of Tiananmen Square, China’s artistic community was shaken to the core. From the trauma of this period em...
One to watch
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Kristian Aadnevik is a Norwegian-born, London-based designer. His racy and unique style has already caught the attentions of pop icons such as Rihanna and he has been mentored by Alexander McQueen and ...