Paris MFW: Dior Homme SS18
THE Dior Homme SS18 collection for Paris Men’s Fashion Week took Dior’s style from the past and gave it a thoroughly modern twist. Kris Van Assche picked teenage boys to model the collection – fitting for the y...
Glass visits the stunning French department of Aveyron
WHEN it comes to travel bucket-lists, Glass is almost certain that few are likely to feature the Southern France department of Aveyron. And yet, with a combination of warm and sunny climates, landscapes untouch...
Fashion’s power women – Glass meets some of the world’s most influential photographers
Fashion’s power women – Glass is honoured to meet some of the world’s most influential fashion photographers to discuss the pressing issues facing the industry today
The strange paradox of fashion is that in...
PWF AW17: Dior
EMPOWERMENT is a word that evokes images of suffragettes in white or, more recently, hundreds of thousands of people marching in protest. In the hands of Maria Grazia Chiuri in her latest ready-to-wear collecti...
Glass reviews Paris Refashioned, 1957–1968 by Colleen Hill
WHILE London started to move centre-stage in youth fashion and culture by the start of the 60s, Paris had started to evolve beyond its couture roots into what we know as fashion today – with the emergence of re...
Paris Couture SS17: Dior
IT was a Renaissance fair fit for a faery nymph, albeit a well-dressed one, at Christian Dior's Couture Spring/Summer 2017 show earlier this week in Paris. Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first couture Dior collection wa...
My Model Life – Glass meets the fashion icon that is Kasia Struss
KASIA Struss is one of the most successful models of her generation. Discovered in 2005, she has worked non-stop at the pinnacle of fashion for the past decade. In her debut season she achieved what most models...
PFW SS17: Valentino
VALENTINO, since 2008 the result of a design duo acclaimed for stylish synergy, is now a one-man show. Pier Paulo Piccioli is that man – the sole creative director whose partner in cloth since around about the ...
PFW SS17: Dior
IT WAS Dior Couture’s Chief Executive Sidney Toledano who hinted back in July soon after Maria Grazia Chiuri was appointed Creative Director of the brand that the world should “expect a new Dior”. After receivi...
From the Archive – Glass interviews Wang Guangyi of the Political Pop movement
Artist of Wizardry – Wang Guangyi, China’s leading protagonist of the Political Pop movement, speaks candidly about his life, his art – and his criticisms, not of Chinese communism, but of the Western love of c...
New Looks – The changing face of Dior’s atelier
In the beginning Monsieur Dior gave us light. Radiated via the luminous ivory silk of the structured jacket belonging to the iconic monochrome Bar suit that exemplified the French fashion designer’s iconic new ...
Haute Couture Spring 2016: Christian Dior
Christian Dior Spring 2016, a conundrum if ever there was one and we are all thinking it. Sans any trace of a virtuoso creative director, Dior moved forward and gave the names Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux as ...
Menswear AW16 Paris: Dior Homme
Kris Van Assche, the creative head of Dior’s menswear division - Dior Homme, made his new collection stand out this season in Paris with a menacing play on a brazen red and black colour scheme which pitted clas...
Glass Films … Jena Malone by Nicole Nodland
Glass meets Hunger Games star, and one of Hollywood’s coolest and most exciting young actresses, Jena Malone, on a sizzling day in LA.
Fashion credits:
Spread 1
Dress, boots: Dior
Hat: Clyde
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Alber Elbaz leaves Lanvin
In a week that’s also seen another major designer, Raf Simons, parting ways with a major fashion brand, Dior, Alber Elbaz has left Lanvin.
Talk that Elbaz is in the process of moving to Dior is now rife foll...
Raf Simons leaves Dior
Raf Simons has stepped down as creative director of Dior. With the recent SS16 collection being his last during his three and a half years at the maison, Simons, 47, decision not to renew his contract comes as ...
The Glass library
“When we arrived in Paris, Rei Kawakubo and I, we weren’t completely aware of what we were doing” – Yohji Yamamoto.
And so it started: yet another remarkable chapter in the life of this humblest of...
Fall 2015 Haute Couture: Christian Dior
Dior’s grand summer haze set brought to life the very essence of luxury couture, as spectrums of colour decorated the stage through magnificent stain glass windows. This playful theme of wonderland trickled dow...
Paris Menswear SS16: Dior
Dior kept it very cool and collected for SS16, with menswear creative director Kris Van Assche drawing on Dior’s age old ability to refresh and refine luxury. This was centred precisely around a very modest exe...
Glass loves… Lady Dior -“The Eyes of Mars” with Marion Cotillard & Franz Ferdinand
In latest installment of Dior's online advertising for the Lady Dior handbag, Marion Cotillard sings lead vocals for "The Eyes of Mars", written by rockers Franz Ferdinand. Sultry, cool and full of attitude - i...