Luxury on form
“Ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen.” So goes the motto at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in China’s capital, Beijing. Chinese culture treats concepts such as lady-like and gentlemanly behaviour with not...
New Alexander McQueen fashion film from ShowStudio
Prompted by Savage Beauty, the recently closed block-busting retrospective of work by Alexander McQueen, at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, the British fashion filmmaker and photographer Nick Knight an...
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...
SMART-move
Armenia is a unique country in many respects, least of which is its approach to education. For example, chess is a compulsory subject in almost all schools. Thus, it is the ideal place to launch a groundbre...
La Dolce Vita with Bulgari
Colour. Innovation. Integrity. These are the three words which sum up what Bulgari stands for and which help to explain why, 130 years since its creation, Bulgari is still the most beloved of Italy’s fine j...
IUAV students present projects developed at La Scuola dei Maestri Pellettieri di Bottega Veneta
Known for its fine Italian designs and coveted, luxury handbags and leather goods, Bottega Veneta is rooted not only in its contemporary look, but in the traditionalism of design and materials that inspires eve...
Sustainable beauty
For Finnish creative studio and design house Samuji, beauty is about more than meets the eye—and clothing is about more than the latest fashion. Since 2011, Samuji has been producing high quality, impeccabl...
Observatory at One World Trade Center opens to the public
New York City’s got the Top of the Rock excursion at Rockefeller Center. It’s got the Empire State Building's Observation Deck. And now, it’s got the much-anticipated Observatory at One World Trade Center.
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Contrarian couturier
Yohji Yamamoto, whose clothing designs revolutionised the sartorial codes of the late 20th century, reveals to Peter Yeoh his views on how intelligent fashion can transcend sexuality, cultural boundar...
Secrets of the house
Habitat – Brothers Pier Luigi and Sergio reveal five secrets of the house of Loro Piana, which was established in 1924 having grown from a family business which started in the textile district in ...
Glass celebrates its fifth anniversary during London Fashion Week
The climax of London Fashion Week this season saw Glass not only raising a perfectly prepared D1 London Gin cocktail to another successful season but also in celebration of our fifth anniversary as one of Londo...
The diamond standard – Glass meets three of the leading figures behind the world’s most famous diamond jewellers, De Beers
The diamond standard – Glass meets three of the leading figures behind the world’s most famous diamond jewellers,
De Beers
On hearing that there is never a “dull moment” at De Beers – from the jewellers of...
Vertu and Bentley connect
When you start your morning in the company of Bentley, Vertu and Moet & Chandon, your week instantly gets off to a delightful start. Glass was just that, delighted to descend into Bentley’s subterranean Ber...
Byredo Tempt Us With Some Delightful Stocking Fillers
The moment when little girls realise they’re no longer children anymore is the year we get given bubble bath and soap instead of Lego and Barbie dolls for Christmas. It’s the year when December 25 stops being a...
New lobby design for Swissôtel, Zurich
Swissôtel, Zurich, has created a fusion of the traditional and the modern with the launch of their stylish new lobby-lounge.
Customer orientation was the clear focus of the project and is reflected in every...
PFW SS15: Valentino
It began with an opening of several navy looks; from head to toe, Valentino used block colouring to present classic smart styles. Deviating from this classicism to also include folk design, retro print was spl...
Chloé launch AW14 ad campaign
It’s everyone’s favourite fashion fairy-tale, a “sisters are doing it for themselves” road trip in the seminal spirit of Thelma and Louise, so now it’s everyone’s time to embrace it, turned out in Chloé’s recen...
V&A and China Merchants Group announce first major museum of design in China
This past week the state-owned corporation, China Merchants Group, and the worlds largest museum of decorative arts and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum, signed, sealed and are set to deliver th...
Balenciaga checks into Hong Kong International
This week sees the opening of Balenciaga’s first airport boutique in Hong Kong International, and the debut of Wang’s architectural and design vision in the region. The boutique’s aesthetic concept, designed in...
Selfridges Launch The Beauty Project
The world of beauty is a strange beast – often dismissed as fickle and shallow yet which provokes a great deal scorn, admiration and controversy in equal measure, which has been further fuelled due to the r...
Exclusive – Michael Kors in conversation with Imran Amed live from Shanghai
This Thursday at 2pm, join us in a live-stream from Shanghai, Michael Kors in conversation with Business of Fashion founder Imran Amed, as the two fashion figureheads discuss the future of the fashion industry,...