NYFW AW2014: Peter Som
This season in the Big Apple, Peter Som has pleasantly patented the welcome warmth of a free-spirited elation, and the crowning corpus, a fabulously fleeting, blurred floral bouquet print, an exemplary reflecti...
NYFW AW2014: Jason Wu
Taiwan-born Jason Wu lived and studied in Canada, and is a fashion designer based in New York City. His career started out at 16-years old designing clothes for dolls for a toy company. He soon found himself ...
NYFW AW2014: A Détacher Ready to Wear
Mona Kowalska cares about structure. She cares about how clothes feel. She has – in the best of ways – no ambitions for her A Détacher line to be a large, mass market label, preferring to stay in cont...
NYFW AW2014: BCBG Max Azria
BCBG Max Azria’s Autumn/Winter 2014 catwalk show in New York City marked the twenty-fifth anniversary on the runway. The resulting milestone show featured a few nostalgic signature silhouettes from years gone ...
NYFW AW2014: Richard Chai
A varied exhibition of aesthetics at Richard Chai Love in New York, on the first day of the fashion festivities, suggested an emancipation of sorts, as a joyous, liberally slap-dash modernity marked an experime...
NYFW AW2014: Trina Turk
Few brands do California cool as well as Trina Turk, particularly in a way that is constantly refreshing. The Trina Turk and Mr Turk Fall 2014 collections purposefully aim to juxtapose different sides of Califo...
Breaking Glass: Bird
Breaking Glass: Liverpool's Bird
Nature-themed Bird are a four piece bunch of boys and girls harking from that rich bubbling main-vein of song, the Mersey. Boasting stark guitars and church-hall vocals remin...
New York Fashion Week: Cynthia Rowley Fall 2014 RTW
Perhaps a deliberate contrast to the sugary launch of her sweets and accessories emporium CuRious Candy, Cynthia Rowley’s Fall 2014 Ready to Wear collection is a structured, dark venture into a bygone era. The ...
The simple life
Starting her modelling career at the age of 17, Sui He has already achieved huge feats in the fashion industry. She was the first Asian face to open a Ralph Lauren show, the first Asian face of Ja...
Sofitel celebrates its 50th anniversary
The Sofitel hotel group celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2014. Being a French company, the three core themes running through the entire celebrations are very appropriately - design, gastronomy and culture.
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Immortal intrigue: UMASAN
There is always something admirable, and indeed honourable, when such forthright defiance has its take on current fashion, and in Berlin, since 2010, a certain murmuring has been heard on the au courant streets...
Camilla Skovgaard SS14 E-Commerce Website Launch
The Danish designer Camilla Skovgaard sold her first shoe collection in 2000 to Saks First Avenue. Camilla has earned many titles, notably Fashion Accessories Designer of 2010 from both The Elle Style Aw...
Russian Wonderland
Inspired by the Russian fairytales and forests and the enchantments of this stories, Nadja Solovieva, created Vassilisa, a London based luxury printed accessories and clothing brand, worn by style-icons like Ka...
New horizons and no apologies at Issa Pre AW14
Brown’s Hotel in Mayfair offered an inviting, balmy atmosphere for the showcase of Issa’s Pre A/W 2014 collection, exhibited today in the rococo Roosevelt room, a welcome salvation from the chilly streets of Lo...
Love is in the air at Langham Place
At the heart of downtown Hong Kong, multicultural Mongkok is labelled the busiest district in the world. Among the bustle and prominence of countless skyscrapers, the presence of one skyscraper stands alone.
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A very stylish Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day has long since been a commercial affair, one where we find ourselves endlessly encouraged to dive into the trap of mass-market consumerism, where shelves heave under the weight of romantically c...
Alexandra Harper opens millinery shop in London
Milliner Alexandra Harper opened her first shop last week in London. The shop combines her studio and marks a new beginning and personal milestone in her career in bespoke hat and headwear design.
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China’s inaugural art photography fair launches this year
Photo enthusiasts worldwide, especially in China, can now rejoice. China’s very first international art fair dedicated to photography, Photo Shanghai, will run from September 5-7 at the iconic Shanghai Exhibiti...
Créme de la Mer Host Skinnovation Clinic at Harrods
Whenever someone talks about Créme de la Mer, it’s our policy at Glass to sit up and take notice. So on Thursday, February 13, you’ll find us hotfooting it down to Harrods where the brand’s ambassador Diane Inv...
Comme de Garcons Homme Plus Collection
Japanese fashion designer and founder of Commes de Garcons Rei Kawakubo brought guests of her mens catwalk show in Paris this month back in a time machine to the Victorian and Edwardian period. A noticeable the...
Jean Paul Gaultier’s Butterfly Couture Spring 2014
French couture designer Jean Paul Gaultier revealed his couture collection via a runway full of burlesque models in Paris yesterday. The collection was every bit a theatrical production as it was catwalk show....