Self-conscious
This month the Frances Rich School of Fine Art and Performing Arts of DEREE, in Athens present a unique and very topical exhibition related to the pervasiveness of technological media in our lives.
The e...
Gold Vein: Delfina Delettrez AW14
Fine jeweller Delfina Delettrez presents Gold Vein – a suitably surreal offering for AW14. Moving on from her previous work with diamonds, the collection explores the simple beauty of precious coloured stones w...
Thierry Mugler’s top-off
Thierry Mugler is bringing back old-world luxury (and a subtle note of eco-friendly) with refillable perfume bottles, referential of a time before Ready To Wear and Over The Counter scents, when ladies woul...
Be original or die
At Glass we have always prided ourselves on championing the forgotten pioneers of fashion and photography but there can be none greater than Madame Yevonde. Born Yevonde Thilone Cumbers in 1893, a...
La Dolce Vita
In London this season Antonio Berardi restrained his often lustful female with a new sensuality, or sex with a brain, to put it directly. Reinforced by his architectural cuts, the body becomes sculpted by, ...
In their court – Glass reviews Denver Duo Tennis
Tennis’ Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley are a Denver duo who've been serving up dreamy free-spirited melodies since the release of their 2010 debut album Young and Old. They recently returned with their excellen...
Global symbology
This month London’s Scream Art Gallery presents at Art 14, a platform for global art aimed at promoting artistic and cultural exchange between East and West. Established in 2006, Scream Art Gallery has rap...
The must-have body spray from Tom Ford
This is a product that takes me back to when I was a pre-adolescent, just discovering the world of beauty, along with trainer bras and a game called spin the bottle. There was one thing that stood out in my m...
Waldorf Astoria opens in Beijing
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...
Harry Winston: The King of Diamonds
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...
From the archive, Glass talks to Michael Reinhardt – one of fashion’s under-recognised masters of photography
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...
Cockles and Champagne
To be tired of London’s restaurants is to be tired of life but this truism may have something to do with the way new restaurants are constantly opening in the metropolis, forever offering something novel fo...
Rock steady
At a party celebrating his store opening in Boston, menswear designer John Varvatos greets guests out front as he nurses a Starbucks cup. Inside, the new boutique is packed full of men with perfectly tailo...
Many truths, many expressions
“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...
Style and substance
Few people who walk past HKK, the city branch of Hakkasan, will stop. There is no sign, just a softly lit door you could easily miss or mistake for a high-end stripclub. Once inside, you might, initially, t...
A hand cream not for the faint of heart
We like to think we’re generous to our family, friends and loved ones here at Glass. Hence when various sweet-scented beauty products land on our desk, we tend to donate them to some lucky recipient after revie...
Seer of a troubled future
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
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...
Piping up about Pippa
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
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...
The incredible lightness of Dale Chihuly – A show by the unique American glass-artist opens in London
A new exhibition by glass-artist Dale Chihuly has opened at Halcyon Gallery, London. Dale Chihuly: Beyond the Object sees the American artist respond to the interior architecture of the building – in ...