Fashion

Christian Louboutin The Golden Age

The Golden Age celebrated by Christian Louboutin for AW 2016

October 6, 2016

THE 16th century marked the beginning of the modern era for England. Royal families began establishing their legacy, yet, none possess such an appealing imprint as the the House of Tudor as reflected in Christi...

Mercutio 1232

Cutler and Gross introduce the Shakespeare Collection

Lucrezia d'Acquarone

October 6, 2016

LUXURY eyewear brand Cutler and Gross is presenting its new Shakespeare Collection in Paris at Slimo 2016 – the optical tradefair. As this year marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s dea...

Manish Arora SS17

PFW SS17: Manish Arora

Lucrezia d'Acquarone

October 6, 2016

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MANISH Arora’s SS17 collection Life is Beautiful was a celebration of life and the natural world. The joyous cast of models included people from different ethnicities, people with diverse body types, drag queen...

Comme des Garçons SS17

PFW SS17: Comme des Garçons

Lucrezia d'Acquarone

October 6, 2016

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COMME des Garçons’ PFW SS17 collection Invisible Clothes was accompanied by Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony nr 3, also known as Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. The atmosphere set by this melody was dark, intriguing and ...

Front Cover. Alaïa A/W 2016/17 - imagery courtesy of Alaïa

Exclusive – Glass is invited to Alaïa’s AW16 show at his Paris HQ

Rachel McCormack

October 6, 2016

Fashion, Feature

WHEN news of the Alaïa EDP was first released in 2015 it was a surprise to realise that there had never yet been an Alaïa perfume, given that fashion and fragrance now seem so symbiotically linked. Anyone expec...

Pam Hogg

Glass illustrates … LFW SS17: Pam Hogg

Lucrezia d'Acquarone

October 5, 2016

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GLASS saw Pam Hogg’s collection for LFW SS17 at Fashion Scout where fashion met rock and tattooed unconventional models started dancing down the runway to the rhythm of The Kinks. Rockstar-designer Hogg’s shows...

Isa Afren

Glass illustrates … LFW SS17: Isa Arfen

Lucrezia d'Acquarone

October 5, 2016

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AT Isa Arfen’s presentation for LFW SS17, the floor was divided by tape into different sections where pretty and simple looking models were playing out different daily actions such as braiding each other’s hair...

PFW SS17: Chanel

PFW SS17: Sonia Rykiel

October 4, 2016

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THESonia Rykiel SS17 show at Paris Fashion Week was done in tribute to the late French designer who the industry lost due to complications from Parkinson’s disease on August 25, at age 86. Imparting je ne sais ...

PFW SS17: Chanel

PFW SS17: Chanel

October 4, 2016

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KARL Lagerfeld has always been one for the latest best thing. For SS17 that was tech. Lagerfeld, in a way only imagined by him and imaginable through the vehicle that is Chanel, manifested tech literally by sen...

Glass meets … New York-based emerging designer Claudia Li

October 4, 2016

Fashion, Feature

NOW on her third collection for her well-received eponymous line, the China-born Claudia Li grew up in New Zealand and Singapore before going on to study at Central Saint Martins in London and then to take an ...

PFW SS17: Yohji Yamamoto

October 4, 2016

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YOHJI Yamamoto put on another touchingly beautiful display of the clarity he finds working so well with a dark colour palette. Deep tones transcending colour choice were detectable in the serious way Yamamoto w...

PFW SS17: Mugler

October 4, 2016

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EACH season since his creative director role at Mugler began, David Koma has continued in the tradition of the brand to give each collection it puts out a hook. Usually vaguely thematic – though curtailed to ou...

PFW SS17: Nina Ricci

October 4, 2016

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PURPLE reigned at Guillaume Henry’s SS17 offering for Nina Ricci. Perhaps a tribute from an enthusiastic fan of Prince who just happens to have an atelier through which to express his emotions, or perhaps Henry...

PFW SS17: Balenciaga

October 4, 2016

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DEMNA Gvasalia’s raved over reinterpretation of Balenciaga for the fashion history books was instigated again for SS17 by the Georgian designer. Looking back, and then fundamentally forth, to Cristobel’s coutur...

PFW SS17: Valentino

October 4, 2016

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VALENTINO, since 2008 the result of a design duo acclaimed for stylish synergy, is now a one-man show. Pier Paulo Piccioli is that man – the sole creative director whose partner in cloth since around about the ...

PFW SS17: Giambattista Valli

October 4, 2016

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GIAMBATTISTA Valli presented a collection of formalised frivolity in Paris this season. This contradiction of kinds came about in the use of a bashfully elegant black on white that dominated, set off in some in...

Givency Spring/Summer 2017

PFW SS17: Givenchy

October 4, 2016

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SET among the d’Histoire Naturelle grounds, Givenchy SS17 took a futuristic approach to its ambiance and open-air surroundings – creating one of the most picture-perfect locations, that Paris Fashion Week has s...

Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2017

PFW SS17: Issey Miyake

October 3, 2016

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FOR PFW SS17, Issey Miyake’s collection was bright bold and brash. Creative director Yoshiyuki Miyamea, inspired by the vivacity of living, filled this season’s collection with colour-blocked Kabuki. ...

PFW SS17 Dior

PFW SS17: Dior

September 30, 2016

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IT WAS Dior Couture’s Chief Executive Sidney Toledano who hinted back in July soon after Maria Grazia Chiuri was appointed Creative Director of the brand that the world should “expect a new Dior”. After receivi...

Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2017

PFW SS17: Rick Owens

September 30, 2016

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DARKNESS descended on the Rick Owens SS17 show in Paris this week. Staged in a coiling stone vault, the models upheld the same bold walk as seen in previous collections – again with human deterioration in mind,...

PFW SS17 Dries Van Noten

PFW SS17: Dries Van Noten

September 30, 2016

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THE SS17 show staged by Dries Van Noten very much resembled an art presentation. Models with a shadow stripe over their eyes or net veil covering their face were walking around flower installations trapped with...