Dreaming in colour
They captured the essence of what it means to be human and made magic of the everyday. Some of the most important photographers to have ever picked up a camera speak to Glass. Reportage photography is, in its...
Glass talks to Annabelle Wallis about her career-defining appearance in Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders
When Annabelle Wallis walks into the bar in the first episode of Peaky Blinders, she illuminates the dank post-WW I Birmingham set like a white flag flying above the parapet – it is a career-defining momen...
Evanescent interpretation
Over the 30 years spanning his career, Philip-Lorca diCorcia has become one of the most influential photographers in the 21st century, credited for pioneering the “fictional” approach in contemporary photogra...
Beauty in Brief – Autumn
Scented Delights
WHILE our hearts sink as the autumn rain beats on the window panes, Cire Trudon’s latest candle Bartolomé transports us to the tropics. Taking inspiration from a 16th Century Spani...
Where art thou? Glass reviews Art Studio America: Contemporary Art Spaces
Where art thou? Glass reviews Art Studio America: Contemporary Art Spaces – a stunning new book offers unique insights into the creative world of America’s most celebrated artists
The artist’s studio is th...
Architecture in China – speed, change, movement and dynamism!
Speed! – By David Gianotten, partner in charge of OMA, Asia
Building fast has characterised the architectural scene of China since the country adopted a more open approach to the rest of the world in the l...
La vie en rose
“We live in the times we do, and nothing is sillier than to turn one’s back on them.” Those are the insightful words of one of the most famous couturiers who ever lived, and his words seem more relevant n...
Butter London have branched out into a full make-up collection with a confectionary of colours – Glass gets a sugar high
Known for their cult nail polishes (which are regularly spotted backstage at London Fashion Week) and bold use of colour, Butter London have decided to take the plunge with a full collection of lipsti...
In the footsteps of Hiroshige
When I was back in London last summer, I came across Carl Randall’s painting, Mr Kitazawa’s Noodle Bar, Tokyo‚ while wandering through the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award 2012 exhibition. The way ...
First and foremost
Rory Kinnear is a fine actor. The plaudits have piled in for his both his classical theatre work and film work alike. He has played everything from Hamlet to Iago to Bill Tanner in Skyfall to Dennis Thatche...
A Passionate Eye – Glass considers the work of photographer Gleb Derujinsky
IN THE words of Gleb Derujinsky’s daughter, Andrea, Derujinsky created beautiful, beautiful imagery, of a style that is unique unto itself. “My dad was, I can’t even explain it, one of the dynamic personalitie...
Unlocking the secrets of yoga
I never thought I’d be standing in warrior position, with my arms outstretched towards fields out in the distance, in the same place as where Lord Nelson once learnt the art of naval warfare. Perhaps a stat...
Racing towards the future with LaFerrari
Our first pitstop when we landed in Maranello used to be Schumacher’s favourite canteen – Montana. NowFernando Alonso’s preferred hang out, its walls are lined with photographs of familiar faces from the ta...
Life is beautiful
Frankly speaking, interviewing someone famous is always a challenge. It is hard to get something new, deep or meaningful when they have had so many experiences but too little time, and perhaps little inclin...
Cinematic excursions in the East End
Film Festivals are a treat for the visually gluttonous, a healthy bit of hedonism for the cinematic epicurean. Feasting on the nascence, often the rarity of festival presentations is a precious thing, yet the...
An engaging Grecovery
As I boarded the Aegean Airlines flight bound for Athens, it seemed like I had mistakenly intruded on a congregation of goddesses – there was a foreign and palpable femininity manifest in their silky dark t...
Latitude Festival asks “What defines me?”
Glass is very excited to speak to Tania Harrison, the Creative Director behind Latitude Festival, who gives us an intriguing insight into how it’s put together and the thought process behind this year’s theme...
One moment – now
“When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view; and so likewise as to the hearin...
Design with a voice
Katie Eary is a new designer with guts and gusto. Her work is demure, crafted and of true statement and strong intentions.
Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2008, Eary rose to the top of her clas...
The songbirds of China
The 1930s Shanghai’s Jazz scene rivalled those of Paris or New York but it was the female vocalists who defined the era. Glass speaks to two living legends. In 1934, jazz composer and pianist Duke Ellingto...
A nice change from making people cry
An exciting prospect for English film and stage, Anglo-Chinese actor, Jing Lusi, has been crazily busy over the last year. Having relished performing in her recently finished run in the play, 4000 Miles, at t...