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Le Book to present custom-made tradeshow Connections in London

October 27, 2015

The little black reference book for creatives around the world, Le Book, will be coming to the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, East London next month opening the doors to their Connections tradeshow. A custom...

Venice with a view

Amanda Bernstein

October 26, 2015

Culture, Europe, Feature, Italy, Travel

What is so exciting about the newly opened JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa? Quite simply, it allows guests to dip in and out of one of the most enchanting, enthralling and mystical destinations in the w...

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 ...

U-biquitous

Yasmin Bilbeisi

October 21, 2015

Art, Culture, Feature

“Hello U” beckons the text on the frontage of Unit London’s nascent gallery space. Opening last month, with a lively solo show of work by Zhuang Hong Yi. The energetic opening was an appropriate complement t...

Review – Hecuba by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford

Gabriella Crewe-Read

October 16, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, News

Stratford at this time of year is beautiful. October mists, the pavement littered with the glowing reds and oranges of fallen leaves and the air tinged with the suspense of winter yet to come. Deputy Royal Shak...

Celebrating Gieves & Hawkes

Abi Buller

October 14, 2015

Culture, Fashion

Although the amalgamation of separate houses Gieves and Hawkes has only stood for the past 40 years, their history of supplying the uniforms for the British Royal Navy and British Army dates back to the 18t...

AllergyCertified – one world, one label, for skin health

Rachel McCormack

October 12, 2015

Beauty, Culture, Feature, Health, News

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AllergyCertified is the Danish company bringing scientifically tested accreditation to the global beauty industry. They intend that their distinctive logo – a big blue tick in an irregular circle – will mak...

Tyger tyger, burning bright

Natalie Egling

October 7, 2015

Art, Culture, Feature

The Save Wild Tigers’ Be Inspired art exhibition at The Club at Cafe Royal London features several pieces aiming to frame the tiger’s perfect symmetry. Not least the late Neon Man Chris Bracey and Be Inspir...

Mandeep. Photographed by Justin Van Vliet

Mandeep and us – Glass talks to actor Mandeep Dhillon during rehearsals for the new stage version of Anita and Me

Tara Wheeler

October 6, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Don't Miss: Television, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

Mandeep Dhillon has been popping up with increasing frequency on the BBC in recent years, and is probably best known for playing Saz in the BBC3 comedy series, Some Girls, about a group of four, young...

Dubrovnik dreaming

Amanda Bernstein

October 5, 2015

Croatia, Culture, Europe, Feature, News, Travel

We have always had vacations on the French and Italian Rivieras, but now the Croatian Riviera is fast becoming the coastal vacation hotspot, with the magnificent city of Dubrovnik as its main attraction. Ab...

An eastern paradise in central London

Viola Levy

October 1, 2015

Beauty, Culture, Destination Spas, Europe, Feature, London, News

Thailand is a place renowned for its spa culture, with tourists flocking from all corners of the globe to replenish the body and mind using ancient herbal remedies in exquisite settings. But if you don’t ha...

Pop Art at Le Meurice, Paris

Amanda Bernstein

September 29, 2015

Art, Culture, Europe, News, Paris, Travel

To celebrate the arrival of the Andy Warhol Unlimited Exhibition at the Paris National Museum of Modern Art, the Dorchester collection’s Le Meurice has conceived a special Pop Art Package. For the duration of t...

Waxing lyrical – a waning Crescent City? Glass meets British singer Jon Cleary about the beating heart of New Orleans

Arjun Sajip

September 29, 2015

Culture, Feature, Music

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His speaking voice – dry, distinctly English, vessel for a voluminous vocabulary – isn’t what you’d expect. Singing live and on record, Jon Cleary’s relatively rough baritone sounds happy just to be there, it...

Art as shelter at The House of St Barnabas

Stephanie Clair

September 25, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Looking for, and exploring how language develops through interactions has acted as the cornerstone for Hester Reeve’s contribution to this year’s Art Social event at The House of St Barnabas. Centred on Mas...

This is hard C-ORE

Katrina Mirpuri

September 24, 2015

Culture, Feature

Mykki Blanco is a transgender rapper, activist, performance artist, poet and journalist. As if that isn’t enough, he has recently set up his own record label Dogfood Music Group, that focuses on working wit...

Glass celebrates London Fashion Week at Juju’s

Livia Feltham

September 23, 2015

Culture, Drinks, News

Glass raised a glass of Belvedere vodka to another successful Spring/Summer season at Juju’s cocktail bar and nightclub in the heart of Chelsea on King’s Road. Closing fashion week in London with all eyes now o...

Restless preoccupations

Emily Rae Pellerin

September 22, 2015

Asia, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Malaysia, Photography

Glass Interviews Yutaka Inagawa on his Malaysian solo show and His restless preoccupation with intersecting mediums, cultural identities Japanese photomontage artist Yutaka Inagawa’s solo show in Kuala L...

A woman centre stage

Tara Wheeler

September 20, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

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As her new play, Nell Gwynn, opens at The Globe; Glass talks to award winning playwright and director Jessica Swale, about her work, women in theatre, and the alchemy of writing. Jessica Swale returns to...

In focus – rapturous revolution

Lauren Weinberg

September 18, 2015

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Culture, Fashion, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Photography

Master of the Lens: Helmut Newton In Focus To utter the name Helmut Newton is to evoke a black and white world of predatory, self-aware women more at home in the cabarets of Weimar Germany than the glossy ...

SohoCreate host special screening of Advanced Style to celebrate LFW

Tara Wheeler

September 16, 2015

Beauty, Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature, London, News

To celebrate London Fashion Week, SohoCreate, Picturehouse Central and Atelier Millinery will be showing a special screening of Advanced Style – a documentary following seven women with a unique and inspiring ...

Damien Hirst or Ai Weiwei? Debating with London Art Studies

Stephanie Clair

September 15, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Responding to the growth in popularity but perhaps a lack of confident understanding of art, Kate Gordon has built an educational model which aims to cultivate awareness and stimulate debate within the wide...