PFW AW13: Christian Dior
Could there have been a more heaven-made match than Raf Simons and Christian Dior? The directors at LVMH must surely be patting themselves on the back for their smart decision making here. With his minimalist h...
PFW AW14: Balenciaga
Balenciaga has to be one of the most fascinating houses in fashion. Cristobal Balenciaga himself was hailed, even by rival designers, as one of the greatest couturiers that ever lived and his designs are held u...
PFW AW14: Lanvin
Alber, Alber, Alber, in how many ways dost though pleasure us? The Lanvin show is always a treat. Alber Elbaz’s impeccable taste and masterful understanding of what looks good on a woman make the collection an ...
Testino me out!
Mario Testino, the prolific chronicler of the famous and fashionable, is content to be a mere fashion photographer without needing to be revered as an artist as well. Yet he’s now being exalted as one, by cur...
The man who mistook his art for a Pirogue – Glass meets James Brett, the director of the Museum of Everything, the world’s international museum for undiscovered artists
The man who mistook his art for a Pirogue – Glass meets James Brett, the director of the Museum of Everything, the world’s international museum for undiscovered artists
“In tiny crevices and under dusty beds, ...
The man who mistook his art for a Pirogue
“In tiny crevices and under dusty beds, there lies a secret creativity by the unknowns of society. Unexpected, delicate, profound, this democratic work has inspired the world’s greatest artists and creative...
Beauty = Detail. Glass visits Denmark’s Det Glade Vanvid restaurant with its architect Sofie Ladefoged
Tucked away on the harbour of Aarhus, side by side with semi-industrial buildings and next to a fishmonger, the black painted timber-clad shed seems rather inconspicuous, anonymous even. Only its brass signage ...
Alice Horlick introduces Luxury Handbag Collection, AEVHA London
The London College of Fashion graduate Alice Horlick, the founder of the new luxury handbag and accessory company, AEVHA London became inspired to launch an accessory line after using leather and developing her...
In the beginning was the end
I was told to open up drawers and let my hands wander. I raised an eyebrow at what this could mean for dreamthinkspeak’s latest production In The Beginning Was The End.
Drawing from Leonardo Da Vinci, Th...
Recomposed
German-born British composer Max Richter has produced for Vashti Bunyan, soundtracked Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir and worked with Julian Opie and Wayne McGregor for The Royal Ballet.
His education began...
Dining at dizzying heights
Duck & Waffle ignites a quiet stir in conversation. Never visited? A patron twice, thrice over? Irrelevant. The chitchat shall always reveal: One, the restaurant is located high up in the clouds. Two, it ...
Glass interviews writer Jeremy Reed — prophet of the radical and marginalised
“PART desperation, high on risk and big crowd anonymity,” visionary poet Jeremy Reed intones in a sotto voce yet raspy drawl upon Piccadilly Bongo, the album opener to Big City Dilemma, his first aural chancing...
Wanderland
I’m lying on my bed in my hotel room and there is a giant fish on the wall. I say fish, but in place of its tail it has the stem of a Champagne flute. These two seemingly mutually exclusive objects, printed o...
Wanderland
I’m lying on my bed in my hotel room and there is a giant fish on the wall. I say fish, but in place of its tail it has the stem of a Champagne flute. These two seemingly mutually exclusive objects, printed...
PFW AW13: Saint Laurent
Hedi Slimane has famously moved the Saint Laurent design team from its birthplace in Paris to California but for one night only California came to Paris. Supermodels were turned into hip LA girls in nostalgic b...
Capturing light
Hiroshi Sugimoto has made his name as a chronicler of time immemorial. His photography emerges from and lives in the interstices of personal and collective memory, as part of what he calls “the history of histo...
Glass meets one of the most respected and renowned actors of our time, Vincent Cassel
The outsider – Glass meets one of the most respected and renowned actors of our time, Vincent Cassel
On a scorching August morning in Biarritz, France’s surfer paradise south-west coast, the promenade is thr...
Valentino Couture SS13
There has been much talk of late of a new era in fashion, both in couture and pret-a-porter. A desire for beautiful yet wearable clothes and the sea change in certain fashion houses, both in appointments and di...
House of leaves
Every house needs a foundation to stand on – this house of leaves is built on the David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF) in London. Inside it, you dwell among artworks, intellectuals, resident curato...
Chanel Couture SS 13
Paris’ two big fashion power houses have clearly squared up against each other for this season’s couture offerings – it’s the battle of the botanicals. Yesterday saw the carefully pruned gardens of Dior, today...
Christian Dior Couture SS13
The second couture offering by Raf Simons for the house of Dior was a charming bouquet containing the tight buds of spring and the beautiful, full flowers of early summer.
This collection was a far cry from ...