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...
A bohemian apogee
Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs emphatically wear their fuzz and glam influences upon their ruffled sleeves. Though to critique their stompy sonic platter this way would be pretty obtuse. Yes, début album, Cl...
ClerkenWell designed
Now in its fourth year, Clerkenwell Design Week is bigger and better than ever and is stamping itself into the annual calendar as a major international festival of design. Clerkenwell is purported to have E...
Rethinking China
“Study the past if you would define the future”
– Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
Modern China adores education. Learning for Chinese students constitutes an immemorial praxis of the highest cultural value. ...
Precious perfumery
About 100 years ago, it was perceived to be a scandal to wear perfume directly on the skin rather than on one’s clothes. In the same way that latex was until very recently seen as a fetish fabric, so perfume ...
Can architecture heal? Glass visits the newly opened Centre for Cancer and Recovery in Copenhagen
We generally accept that our physical surroundings impact our moods and feelings, but the question as to what effect they have on our physical health is less well-explored. It is commonly accepted that body and...
Portrait of a woman
Charlotte Rampling is one of fashion and cinema’s most enduring icons, immortalised by Helmut Newton, muse to Yohji Yamamoto, revered by legions of creative greats. Glass spends a day in Paris with a living l...
Design emerged
“We do not to have a signature but rather a handwriting. We like to tell stories in different ways.” This is how Meadham Kirchhoff have described their style. That the French-English designer duo do things th...
(Extra)ordinary Yung Ho Chang
According to Philip Tinari, a leading curator of art and architecture in China, Yung Ho Chang can be referred to as “a pioneer of contemporary Chinese architecture“. This epithet refers to the historical sign...
The actress
Olga Kurylenko has achieved the impossible. She has successfully established a serious acting career after achieving the mixed blessing of starring as a Bond girl in 2008’s Quantum of Solace. The question o...