The artist
Audrey Tautou is one of those rare birds. She is simultaneously one of the most famous actresses of her generation (Amélie is the highest grossing French movie of all time and even managed to break America ...
Luxury without gloss
Although it has a small population – equivalent, at 5.4m, to the city of Philadelphia – Finland’s design culture, integrated into daily life, has touched the lives of a great many people. This year, while c...
Scents of awareness – Glass looks at fragrances for men
Mainstream masculine perfumery remains in the doldrums. Women’s scents could do with an injection of creativity as well, but men have especially strong grounds for complaint. A vast proportion of new ...
Brave new world
The June sunshine dapples on the slate at the Temple of Heaven, the Water Cube and Bird’s Nest sit still as two audacious beacons of a sprawling Beijing beaming across the globe. In a city where the East me...
Not so black and white
Be it sat on stage in a bathrobe addressing his audience in song, breaking a world record for continuous piano playing (that’s 27-hours straight, since you ask), illustrating the similarities between Phil Colli...
Nails are MAC for good
With colours that pop, shimmer, glisten or project moodily from the fingertips and toes, MAC’s new permanent collection of nail lacquers cater for all tones and tastes. Old favourites which have previously ...
London Film Festival: the global preview
The Glass Guide to London Film Festival: the global preview
Amour
Where Set in Paris, France
Who Directed by Michael Haneke
What After wowing all at Cannes, this tale of an octogenarian couple struggl...
Brainwashing the nation
Who is to say what is art and what is not? Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, sure. But what about Street Art? What started as an underground revolt, has somehow filtered through the cracks right into broad...
A moment with Kirsty Ward
Designer Kirsty Ward brings a unique aesthetic to fashion with her merging of womenswear and jewellery design. Her bold, structural creations combine unusual but complementary materials like silk, rivets an...
AKA47 as Art?
Guns have always proved an interesting object-cum-subject for many an artist, and now, to raise money for Peace One Day’s Global Truce Foundation 2013, ex-Afghanistan soldier and photographer, Bran Symondso...
Skincare A-Z
A is for: Alkylation Damage identified by Estee Lauder as a specific type of skin damage caused by smoke and pollution which its new Advanced Night Repair Synchronised Recovery Complex helps to combat with ...
Made in China
Stars do not illuminate Beijing’s sky at night. Instead there are the sparks of metal as builders weld steel to steel on the tops of high-rise towers. China’s construction workers are building rapidly. Yet mo...
Losing the plot
Twenty-seven-year old Ned Beauman lives in Brixton, South London. He was the youngest nominee on this year’s Man Booker Prize Longlist with The Teleportation Accident. Only his second novel, this transatlan...
Gods and mortals
Since the invention of photography in the 19th century, photographers have aspired to capture memorable moments in sports and create defining images of young mesomorphs doing great things in athletic events. In...
The original IT Girl
“This girl was the real thing. Someone to stir every pulse in the nation”
F Scott Fitzgerald
Clara Bow was Hollywood’s first sex symbol, predating Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe for being unashamedly fe...
Patriotic perfumes
There’s definitely something magical and unique about the British countryside and the perfume world would seem to agree – with three new fragrances whose ingredients focus on herbs, plants, fruit and flower...
Vacant expression
Still Alive. Those are the words spray-painted in English and Japanese across the side of an abandoned house in an old, somewhat forgotten, district of Onomichi, Japan. Not a house victim to graffiti, but r...
Diary of a lost girl – Glass looks at the career of the iconic film star Louise Brooks
“A well-dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.”
No actress epitomised the glamour, the excitement or the burgeoning sexuality of the 1920s like Louise Brook...
Drawing attention
The art of illustration has long been kindred to fashion. And if you take a closer look at the development of fashion illustration in the 20th century reveals its intimate links with the evolution of fashio...
Talking shop
Kiosk was set up in 2005 on Spring Street in Soho, New York. Half museum, half store, it has since atttracted a quiet following of customers interested in meticulously sourced artefacts from around the worl...
Yellow Frosted Willow
The actress Anna May Wong achieved global stardom against a back drop of racism, bigotry and sexism. Her considerable self belief and will power would be the only things that maintained her at a time when t...