London - The Glass Magazine

Chiltern Street – London’s hottest strip

April 14, 2014

Culture, Culture of Commerce, Dining, Drinks, Europe, Fashion, Feature, Food & Drink, London, Shopping Guide, Travel

It's always a pleasure to explore Marylebone’s charming streets and stumble upon a hidden gem like Chiltern Street. Recognised as a highly desirable address, ever so quietly assured of it’s own class, style, an...

The dirty F word

Bonnie Friend

April 10, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

“Feminism” sometimes seems to have become an utterly filthy word in the last decade or so. For every person who believes that the 21st century woman is a feminist by definition of the time in which they were ...

Lessons from the Elders – The Maasai dance to change the myths of tourism

Bonnie Friend

March 17, 2014

Culture

“When I was 16, my father was the most ignorant man in the world. By the time I reached 21, I was surprised at how much he had learned in five years.” Mark Twain was a man of many words, and a fair few it seem...

Glass celebrates the launch of ART14 with Geoff Leong at Boujis

Livia Feltham

March 5, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

On Thursday night at Boujis nightclub in South Kensington, along with Geoff Leong, Glass raised a frosted, and much deserved, glass of the smoothest vodka to celebrate the launch of the ART14 artfair. The swan...

A Tale of Two Endings – Art from the past contemplates the future at La Fine di Dio, a new show at the Gagosian Gallery, London

Bonnie Friend

March 5, 2014

Avant Art

Walk into a stark, white room at Gagosian gallery on Davies Street, and you will be greeted by a smartly dressed little boy kneeling in front of a Pepto-Bismol pink, two dimensional, giant egg, hu...

Global symbology

Louise Lui

March 3, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

This month London’s Scream Art Gallery presents at Art 14, a platform for global art aimed at promoting artistic and cultural exchange between East and West. Established in 2006, Scream Art Gallery has rap...

Many truths, many expressions

Bonnie Friend

February 25, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

“Over the last two decades Rwanda has changed enormously … but there’s still a tendency to try to represent it, particularly visually, in relation to genocide”, says Dr Zoe Norridge, curator of the forthcom...

Building images

Runa Mathiesen

February 20, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Design, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Design, News, Photography

Along with the abundance of design websites, where architectural companies can promote themselves, architectural photography has become increasingly important in recent years. The photo has come to define m...

Celebrating LFW with Dukes St James

Roberta Lister

February 19, 2014

Culture, Dining, News

It simply wouldn’t be London Fashion Week without a heavy dose of indulgence. And this season, there is no place we would rather be than the PJ lounge at Dukes Hotel, London. The boutique hotel’s latest bar ...

LFW AW14: Julien Macdonald

Annie Fong

February 17, 2014

News

Julien Macdonald’s show, at the Royal Courts of Justice was pure high octane glamour. Macdonald's sea-nymph glamazons – all wet hair and stained glass inspired eyes were sequinned, jewel-encrusted, nude-mesh-...

LFW AW14: Charli Cohen

Annie Fong

February 17, 2014

News

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Fashion designer and personal trainer Charli Cohen showed her new collection as part of Felicities’ collective of emerging brands at the ME London Hotel, Cohen’s ‘Odyssey Collection’ was in action at a live roo...

LFW AW14: Markus Lupfer

Annie Fong

February 17, 2014

News

Markus Lupfer celebrated British heritage for this collection and his take on "the full English" welcoming us into his tongue-in-cheek tour of England for a collection that highlighted the quintessential, nosta...

LFW AW14: Charlie May

Annie Fong

February 17, 2014

News

Charlie May displayed her autumn/winter 14 collection in an all-white showspace at the Oxo Tower, South Bank. May took inspiration from her hometown, Devon, for this collection, focusing on the rugged, windswep...

LFW AW14: Phoebe English

Annie Fong

February 16, 2014

News

This season Phoebe English showcased in the BFC Canon and Cinema Presentation space with a setting of smashed plaster plinths and projected screens allowing each look to be displayed in 360 degrees. The collect...

LFW AW14: Yifang Wan

Annie Fong

February 16, 2014

News

On the Fashion Scout off-schedule today was Yifang Wan, born in Xia Men, China, the London-based designer has carved a stellar reputation as one of the most exciting new Asian creatives of today. Her simplisti...

LFW AW14: Sister by Sibling

Annie Fong

February 15, 2014

News

This collection stepped back to the 70s for the Sister by Sibling gang, Jo Bates, Sid Bryan and Cozette McCreery. A must-see show on the fashion week schedule, autumn/winter 2014 drew upon the trios childhood m...

New horizons and no apologies at Issa Pre AW14

Livia Feltham

February 4, 2014

News

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...

Louis Vuitton Townhouse – The Making Of

Vanessa da Silva Miranda

January 23, 2014

News

Last November marked the opening of the most anticipated new Louis Vuitton concession store inside the iconic department Selfridges, in London. Created by the Japanese-based designer, Gwenaël Nicolas, the Townh...

London Collections: Men – Topman Design AW14

Calvin Baillie

January 6, 2014

News

What better way to kick start the new year with a sartorial vitamin dose of London men's fashion and land two New Balanced feet solidly on the ground at the Topman Design AW14 show. What a way to...

London Collections: Men – Matthew Miller AW14

Calvin Baillie

January 6, 2014

News

For his AW14 show Matther Miller asked 10 people from different social circumstances to write a short text describing their everday reality, both dreams and problems. Written by employed and un...

Burberry Beauty Box opens in Covent Garden, London

Roxy Mirshahi

December 16, 2013

Beauty, News, Shopping Guide, Shopping Guide

Beauty Box – Burberry's new beauty emporium London’s Covent Garden Piazza has become somewhat of a beauty Mecca. Over the past year, the area has seen some of the beauty industry’s finest set camp, including t...

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