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V&A announces exhibition showcasing Marie Antoinette’s style legacy

June 18, 2025

OPENING on the 20 September 2025, the V&A has announced the Marie Antoinette Style, the first UK exhibition dedicated to the fashion queen. The exhibition has been announced to feature 250 objects, some...

V&A museum releases their new film – Creativity. It’s what makes us

Julie Heinisch

April 28, 2022

Art, Culture, Film, News

THE Victoria and Albert Museum has revealed a new creative campaign showcasing and celebrating its beloved South Kensington site. Directed by Georgia Hudson, the film follows a mannequin as it discovers incr...

Glass interviews British jewellery designer Liv Luttrell

Imogen Clark

October 19, 2021

Fashion, Feature, Jewellery and Watches

THERE is this spoken link between art and fashion, where one can’t exist without the other. A physical manifestation of that relationship is apparent in British designer Liv Luttrell’s jewellery. Inspired by...

Botticelli Reimagined at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Kensington Hotel

Yasmin Bilbeisi

June 17, 2016

Art, Feature

IN conjunction with the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Kensington Hotel is offering groups of people the chance to experience their own personal art renaissance. Until July 03, 2016, patrons can merge a visit ...

Jean-Paul Goude and Antonio Lopez, Maternity dres for Grace Jones, 1979

Stylish revolt – how post-modernism broke with the past by borrowing from it

Peter Yeoh

October 16, 2015

Archive, Art, Feature

A Stylish Revolt – Post-modernism broke with the past by borrowing from it in irreverent ways. Peter Yeoh discusses the movement’s legacy with some of its most celebrated artists and design historian Glenn ...

(De)constructing memory – Architecture’s wunderkind Daniel Libeskind reveals the dreams behind his awe-inspiring creations

Elana B Tenenbaum

April 3, 2015

Archive, Culture, Feature, Glass Design

(De)constructing memory – Architecture’s wunderkind Daniel Libeskind reveals the dreams behind his awe-inspiring creations “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” ...

V&A and China Merchants Group announce first major museum of design in China

Livia Feltham

June 21, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Culture of Commerce, News

This past week the state-owned corporation, China Merchants Group, and the worlds largest museum of decorative arts and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum, signed, sealed and are set to deliver th...

Michael Schmidt wins this year’s Prix Pictet prize

Xenia Founta

May 26, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

German photographer Michael Schmidt has won this year’s Prix Pictet prize, a photography prize aiming to highlight work by leading photographers which exposures the most pressing social and environmental challe...

Roja Dove’s new fragrance Diaghilev is a tribute to the world of the Ballet Russes

glasswp

September 30, 2010

Beauty, News

WHEN it comes to the Chypre fragrances of the “roaring twenties,” one may think of lavish costume parities, Parisian chorus girls and prima ballerinas lavishly spritzing themselves before dashing onstag...

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