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Glass celebrates the launch of ART14 with Geoff Leong at Boujis

March 5, 2014

On Thursday night at Boujis nightclub in South Kensington, along with Geoff Leong, Glass raised a frosted, and much deserved, glass of the smoothest vodka to celebrate the launch of the ART14 artfair. The swan...

PFW AW14: Issey Miyake

Cynthia Gregoire

March 3, 2014

Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Glass Models, News

The Issey Miyake AW14 catwalk show held at Jardin de Tuileries during Paris Fashion Week was inspired by the majestic forest and was a beautiful piece of art as well at catwalk show. Live music on a special sp...

Welcome to the Pradasphere

Roberta Lister

March 3, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

This May, Harrods invites you to immerse yourself in the world of one of our most revered design families and enter the Pradasphere. The retrospective exhibition will catalogue the multifaceted activities of th...

PFW AW14: Comme des Garçons

Livia Feltham

March 2, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Glass Models, News

The monster within reared its nightmarish head last night in Paris, the instance Rei Kawakubo tangled the body in cramping, strait-jacket creations which abide to the designer’s conceptualist testament that cha...

Waldorf Astoria opens in Beijing

Amanda Bernstein

March 1, 2014

Asia, Beijing, Culture, Design, Feature, Glass Design, News, Travel

Hilton Worldwide and Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts have announced the opening of Waldorf Astoria Beijing, the second Waldorf Astoria hotel in China. The hotel offers 176 luxuriously appointed guest room...

PFW AW14: Haider Ackermann

Alison Santighian

March 1, 2014

Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Glass Models, News

If the runway show were to start with the finale, and we saw a collection in its entirety to start, we might describe Haider Ackermann’s Fall 2014 Ready to Wear collection as “monastic”. True, there are plenty ...

Harry Winston: The King of Diamonds

Roberta Lister

March 1, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Design, Fashion, Feature, Jewellery and Watches, News

Today is the birthday of Harry Winston. And in celebration of the late jeweller and collector, his legacy is shared in a short film. Above all else, Mr Winston is remembered as a man who knew his diamonds. I...

Peeping Tech – The ASAP54 Premonition

Livia Feltham

February 28, 2014

Culture, News

Personal shoppers are often a fanciful, usually unobtainable, luxury for most, but now thanks to the new app ASAP54, you can treat yourself to your very own stylist and get a crafty edge on the competition, wit...

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From the archive, Glass talks to Michael Reinhardt – one of fashion’s  under-recognised  masters of photography

Bruna Volpi

February 28, 2014

Culture, Feature

Micheal the realist – Glass talks to Michael Reinhardt, one of fashion’s  under-recognised  masters of photography Born in Los Angeles in 1938, Michael Reinhardt is the eldest son of film producer and scr...

Many truths, many expressions

Bonnie Friend

February 25, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

“Over the last two decades Rwanda has changed enormously … but there’s still a tendency to try to represent it, particularly visually, in relation to genocide”, says Dr Zoe Norridge, curator of the forthcom...

New Pullman hotel opens in Vietnam

Amanda Bernstein

February 22, 2014

Asia, Culture, News, Travel, Vietnam

Pullman, Accor’s upscale international brand, has announced the opening of its third hotel in Vietnam, the Pullman Saigon Centre, which is strategically located in the heart Ho Chi Minh City. The hotel boasts m...

Diving into Veuve Clicquot at the Andaz London

Roberta Lister

February 22, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

Last night saw the launch of experimental designer duo Harvey and John’s Dive into a Glass of Veuve Clicquot installation at the five-star boutique Andaz Liverpool Street, London. The experience is unique and e...

Seer of a  troubled future

Peter Yeoh

February 21, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

I came to Godfrey Reggio’s films late. I only saw his career-making masterpiece, Koyaanisqatsi, last year, by chance, at the Barbican Arts Centre in London. I had just arrived in London when my cine-wise ne...

Building images

Runa Mathiesen

February 20, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Design, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Design, News, Photography

Along with the abundance of design websites, where architectural companies can promote themselves, architectural photography has become increasingly important in recent years. The photo has come to define m...

Glass LFW Party AW14 at Kitsch London

Livia Feltham

February 19, 2014

Culture, News

THE subterranean beckoning of newly tipped hotspot, Kitsch London members club, proposed the perfect hint of thrill that was to every attendee’s taste last night when Glass magazine celebrated the LFW AW14 fest...

Celebrating LFW with Dukes St James

Roberta Lister

February 19, 2014

Culture, Dining, News

It simply wouldn’t be London Fashion Week without a heavy dose of indulgence. And this season, there is no place we would rather be than the PJ lounge at Dukes Hotel, London. The boutique hotel’s latest bar ...

Piping up about Pippa

Natalie Egling

February 19, 2014

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

Having only graduated from RADA in the summer of 2010, 25-year-old Pippa Bennett-Warner has already trodden the floorboards of stages in some of London’s most prestigious theatres, including the National, A...

Aesop launches meditation workshops

Viola Levy

February 18, 2014

Beauty, Cosmetics We Love, Culture, Destination Spas, Feature, News, Shopping Guide

As much as we’re happy to champion innovative, interesting and hardworking beauty products here at Glass, it’s very rare a beauty brand strikes such a chord with our own ethos as does Aesop, With their clean mi...

Your very own piece de resistance

Nico Kos Earle

February 17, 2014

Belgium, Culture, Dining, Europe, Feature

The Belgians really love their food. Brussels’ proximity to its gastronomic neighbour Lilles, just half an hour by train, seems to have spurred the city on to strive for higher culinary standards. Per capit...

Processing,  sharing Abe

Christian Parreno

February 14, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Design, Feature, Glass Design

“This building is very strange. It is the kind of building that makes you wonder why it is this way. It is not good or bad, ”says Hitoshi Abe as soon as he enters his office in Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, ...

An East Coast Edit

Livia Feltham

February 12, 2014

Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature, News

Now consider – which tribe do you resonate with? Currently the leading line of inquiry initiated in New York by this season’s visceral conversation with the elements, in which ubiquitous utilitarianism trul...