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Sooner Or Later Frank – Jeremy Reed book launch

April 29, 2014

London’s favourite glam-master of poetic prose, Jeremy Reed, is launching his latest collection of poems, Sooner or Later Frank, this week. Jeremy Reed Reed is a writer who constantly shapes and reforms poet...

The Trench factor – Burberry celebrates 100 years of its timeless fashion garment

Livia Feltham

April 29, 2014

Culture, Feature

What exactly could it be that makes the Burberry trench the most significant steadfast article of outerwear that still retains a timeless recognition? Its various – unassuming, yet consistently, vague...

Disappearing Nature show opens in London

Xenia Founta

April 28, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

Syncronicity Earth – the London-based charity which aims to the most important conservation initiatives globally – is hosting the Disappearing Nature exhibition in partnership with Invisible Dust at the end of ...

Alexander McQueen show announced at V&A London

Livia Feltham

April 25, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature, Glass Design, News

Alexander McQueen show announced at V&A London London is the home of McQueen. It’s as simple as that, and though simple is a stretch for the Alexander McQueen vocabulary, it’s the savage beauty of the cory...

Making businesses click

Jack Aldane

April 25, 2014

Archive, Culture, Culture of Commerce, Feature

Carl Waldekranz is fast becoming Sweden’s most sought-after entrepreneur. Two and half years ago, the 27-year old teamed up with some friends in Stockholm to launch an online store platform called Tic...

To dream the impossible dream

Livia Feltham

April 23, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Design, Fashion, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Design, Glass Talents, News

Spring is now here. And to set our springtime in motion, Glass decided that one of the best ways to shine an inspiring new light on a season in which we like to see creative forces banding together would be t...

Wrap Party: Celebrating 40 years of Diane von Furstenberg

Roberta Lister

April 22, 2014

Culture, News

Marking the fashion house’s 40th year, Diane von Furstenberg celebrate one of their most iconic designs with Journey of a Dress: a global project which sends the decade-spanning wrap dress around the world, wor...

A star is Berrington

Livia Feltham

April 19, 2014

Culture, Feature

Piping hot from the high of The Inbetweeners 2 UK premiere, Glass was fortunately able to be the first to hear the inside story from UK actor Emily Berrington, one of the cast in the new...

Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon Prize 2014

Amanda Bernstein

April 18, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Fashion, Feature, News

Champagne Perrier-Jouët has announced the winner of the Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon Prize 2014, Laura Youngson Coll. Laura was selected by the Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon members from a shortlist of ten candidates f...

The beauty of abstraction – Mondrian and his studios and Nasreen Mohamedi at Tate Liverpool

Xenia Founta

April 17, 2014

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, News

This summer, Tate Liverpool will exhibit Mondrian and his Studios and Nasreen Mohamedi, as part of Tate Liverpool’s summer 2014 season entitled Abstraction into the World; Modernity, abstraction and architectur...

The Strength of Italian Fashion …?

Livia Feltham

April 17, 2014

Avant Art, Culture

Is the phrase, the Passion of Italian Fashion, a cliché? While this writer will always cherish a deep, dark, wistfully sentimental affinity with glamour, it’s a word that has been sullied with a decidedly unfa...

SSENSE & System join forces

Nika Mamonova

April 16, 2014

Culture, News

Collaborations are always good, especially when it comes to pushing boundaries. The fashion online retail destination SSENSE and System, a London-based fashion magazine, are joining forces for a new project. ...

Chiltern Street – London’s hottest strip

Annie Fong

April 14, 2014

Culture, Culture of Commerce, Dining, Drinks, Europe, Fashion, Feature, Food & Drink, London, Shopping Guide, Travel

It's always a pleasure to explore Marylebone’s charming streets and stumble upon a hidden gem like Chiltern Street. Recognised as a highly desirable address, ever so quietly assured of it’s own class, style, an...

Brief encounters at the Pullman

Nico Kos Earle

April 14, 2014

Culture, Dining, Feature

In the first of a series of tales that begin from a Pullman Hotel in a number of locations, we explore the relationship of artist and patron and how a serendipitous meeting in a lobby or bar might...

Park Hyatt New York announces summer opening

Amanda Bernstein

April 9, 2014

America, Culture, New York, News, Travel

Park Hyatt New York is scheduled to open in summer 2014 and will become the flagship hotel of the globally recognised Park Hyatt brand. Perfectly located in Midtown at 153 West 57th Street between Sixth Aven...

Glass interviews Marianne Oldham the star of BBC WW1 drama The Crimson Field

Gabriella Crewe-Read

April 9, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Television, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

Life does indeed resemble art when I interview Marianne Oldham in late December 2013. Having just wrapped from two months filming six one-hour episodes of the Sarah Phelps-penned drama The Crimson Fie...

The time has come, Art Basel 2014

Livia Feltham

April 8, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

If Art Basel, the world’s premier culmination of modern and contemporary works, is just one of the many anticipated events on your art fair schedule this year, you’ll be very pleased to know that for 2014, the ...

Glass talks with Tom Riley to share his experiences of playing the lead role in Da Vinci Demons

Stephanie Clair

April 7, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Television, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

Kent-born, English actor Tom Riley spent his early years writing and directing plays before formally studying English literature and drama at the University of Birmingham. After graduating in 2002, Tom embarked...

Glass talks to British actor Laura Haddock about playing Da Vinci’s lover in the day, and finding solace in cooking at night

Stephanie Clair

April 3, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Television, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

Playing the mistress – Glass talks to British actor Laura Haddock about playing Da Vinci's lover in the day, and finding solace in cooking at night Watching the actress Hayley Mills star in Pollyanna at an e...

The eyes have it – When it comes to eye-care a pair of cucumber slices just isn’t going to cut it, as Glass discovers …

Viola Levy

April 2, 2014

Beauty, Cosmetics We Love, Culture, Fashion, Feature, News, Shopping Guide

Despite allegedly being “windows to the soul”, our eyes seem to take quite a fair amount of flack on a daily basis. Not getting enough sleep, dehydration and wearing contact lenses for far longer than...

Bamford braves new frontiers

Livia Feltham

April 1, 2014

Beauty, Culture of Commerce, Fashion, Feature, News, Shopping Guide

“New growth – above all optimism”, and if you take Carole Bamford’s word for it, the recent developments that have unfolded at the benefit of her eponymous RTW label throughout March clearly attest to her decl...