PFWM AW18: Valentino Men’s
IT'S ALL about the white sneaker in the latest Valentino Men’s collection for PFW AW18 as the uncool but now-cool dad sneaker, returned to the catwalk contrasting against the luxurious black flooring and the da...
PFW SS18: Valentino
VALENTINO’s SS18 collection is something other-worldly. With designs that come from the extraordinary Pierpaolo Piccioli who has overseen Valentino’s creative direction for eight years, this collection mainly f...
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...
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...
Glass meets Gian Paolo Barbieri – the legendary forefather of fashion photography
BORN in 1938 in the elegant city of Milan, Gian Paolo Barbieri has experienced – and lived – the real life and glamour of the dolce vita. His family were wealthy fabric wholesalers, but Barbieri eschewed t...
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 ...
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 ...
Glass investigates the rise of haute couture in China
Couture in China – Glass investigates the rise of couture in China and asks whether Asia could provide a lifeline for fashion’s highest art form
HAUTE couture, French for “high sewing” has long been synonymous...
From the archive – Glass spends a day in Paris with the inimitable Audrey Tautou
FROM the Glass archive – Talented, accomplished, beautiful. Glass spends a day in Paris with one of its finest exports, the inimitable Audrey Tautou
Audrey Tautou is one of those rare birds. She is simultaneou...
Haute Couture Spring 2016: Valentino
Making their way through a bed of roses, the models almost floated in their lightness and fluidity, accentuated by a haze of pleated chiffon gowns, which were at the core of Valentino’s haute couture collection...
Menswear AW16 Paris: Valentino
Valentino’s AW16 Menswear collection could be described as the ultimate sartorial mullet - business in the front, party in the back. The two faces of Valentino came together in full force to present a show cont...
PFW SS16: Valentino
The Valentino show for SS16 had its quiet moments with simple dresses in black or neutral colours but for most part it was pretty wild as the designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli were so clearly...
Changing Cerruti
No one can be the new (or next) Nino Cerruti. Nor should anyone try to be. The dashing founder of Cerruti is irreplaceable, inimitable. He is the consummate sartorialist, embodying la grande bellezza – the gr...
Dolce & Gabbana and Valentino go off schedule for Fall 2015 Haute Couture
Two of couture’s most illustrious players, Valentino and Dolce & Gabbana, chose to debut their latest array of one-off designs off schedule this season to emphasise that they are each in leagues of their ow...
Paris Menswear SS16: Valentino
On the first day of the Paris-based leg of menswear SS16’s gala performances, Valentino revealed its most unbridled side. Building on the fashion house’s increasingly fanciful transition now that Maria Grazia C...
PFW AW15: Valentino
The Valentino show for AW15 started off small and ended big. The black and white beginning was very minimal including the bare make-up of the models with only a hint of brown eye-shadow and hair clipped at the ...
Paris Menswear AW15: Valentino
Valentino’s top creative dogs Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli’s stuck to the house codes this season for a menswear presentation staged in harmony with the design house’s affinity with pattern making...
The well-heeled world of Valentino
Harrods, are launching of The World of Valentino next month. Equipped with a brand new, exclusive to Harrods, capsule collection, Valentino have presented an explosion of colour drawing from the brands 1973 co...
PFW SS15: Valentino
It began with an opening of several navy looks; from head to toe, Valentino used block colouring to present classic smart styles. Deviating from this classicism to also include folk design, retro print was spl...
Shoes, glorious shoes at Harrods Shoe Heaven
Let’s get to the point, when it comes to shoes, there is nothing more heavenly that heels. Harrods knows this, we know this, and you should too, but just in case you need to remind yourself what made Sonia Ryki...
New Model Army – Glass meets Iris Somen
A new face on the modelling scene, 18-year-old Solvenian model Iris Somen, hails from the town of Ptuj and is represented in the UK by Profile. Iris was scouted at a concert in her home country.
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