PFW AW24: Ottolinger
THE BERLIN-BASED brand Ottolinger hosted its autumn-winter 2024 collection show during Paris Fashion Week, exploring the realm of time, womanhood and art.
The collection saw silhouettes of casual daily wear...
Glass visits the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Europe’s hippest capital
PERCHED in an enviable location on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin’s centre is the elegant and well- connected Grand Hyatt. It sits cheek by jowl with art galleries and boutiques and is only a stone’s throw from som...
Anthony Vaccarello brings Saint Laurent to Berlin for SS24 Menswear
WHILE everyone consistently thinks about the future, Anthony Vaccarello's tenure at Saint Laurent has been a continual ode to the past. Referencing certain decades within the seams and silhouettes of his colle...
PFW SS21: Ottolinger
IT IS interesting to see how lockdown changed the way designers approached their latest collection. For Berlin-based Ottolinger, creative directors Cosima Gadient and Christa Bösch started by asking the questio...
Glass heads to Berlin for art, nightlife, and an awe-inspiring hotel lobby
THE LATEST incarnation of INNSiDE Berlin Mitte succeeds where the vast majority of non-boutique, inner-city hotels fail, creating an environment (specifically the open-plan lobby) that genuinely reflects the ci...
PFW AW18: Givenchy
FOLLOWING on from her debut couture collection in January, Clare Waight Keller and her AW18 Givenchy show established a vision of the empowered woman as one who is strong because of her femininity, rather than ...
Make Up For Ever debut their latest line in Berlin
MAKE Up For Ever showcased their new range of products alongside their International Pro Squad in an event held last week in Germany’s capital, Berlin. Presentations from professional make-up artists, demonstra...
Pop-Kultur – Glass checks out Berlin’s culture thriving festival
THIS year marked the two-year anniversary of Berlin’s diverse and upcoming Pop-Kultur festival. Debuting its first year at the famous Berghain club, Pop-Kulture celebrated this year’s festival in the thriving v...
The Wapping Project announces Berlin residency program
THE Wapping Project has just announced that applications for its third residency at its Berlin home are now open. Applicants aged 33 and over practising photography, fine art, film and more, will be in with the...
Glass talks to Korean artist Hyojun Hyun before his show opens in Berlin
“This could be a dangerous place for you” says Hyojun Hyun when asked about the stories behind his paintings. I meet the artist in a deserted cafe in Berlin to talk about his first solo show Strange Days. He te...
In focus – rapturous revolution
Master of the Lens: Helmut Newton In Focus
To utter the name Helmut Newton is to evoke a black and white world of predatory, self-aware women more at home in the cabarets of Weimar Germany than the glossy ...
Breaking the mould
One of the world’s most bankable DJs, Seth Troxler was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, partied in Detroit and honed his craft in Berlin and on the international DJ circuit. His relentless touring schedule he...
Small but fine – Glass reviews Pin Up! at pavlov’s dog, Berlin
Small but fine – Glass reviews Pin Up! at pavlov’s dog, Berlin
On opening night, it is obvious even from the end of Bergstrasse that something is going on at pavlov’s dog (sic). People are spilling from the ...
Beauty and the Beast
The beautiful museum Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is located in the very centre of Copenhagen and this autumn it has put on a fascinating exhibition Transformations: Classical Sculpture in Colour. The objective o...
Make a fashionable footprint in UMASAN
“Being green makes the world go round“” is something that we are becoming conditioned with more and more nowadays, but who says you can’t be chic whilst doing so? UMASAN is the one high-fashion vegan brand that...
The sweetness outside of time
In 1969, Dorothy Iannone and her lover, Swiss artist Dieter Roth, were scheduled to participate in Ausstellung der Freunde, an exhibition of contemporaries in Kunsthalle Bern. Prior to the opening, however,...
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...
The ballerina stripped bare
Marcel Duchamp caused an outcry stripping the bride bare. Today he would have to strip himself, strip his skin and then flay his flesh.
Provocation gets old and dies, and yet there are taboos that agains...