Nicola Kavanagh - The Glass Magazine

An Amnesty International vigil for Raif Badawi in Vienna, Austria. January 2015. The Saudi arabian government sentanced Raif Badawi to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes in May 2014. He was convicted of insulting Islam through his writings and on his website, which was set up to encourage public debate

United We Stand – Glass talks to Salil Shetty Secretary General of Amnesty international

July 1, 2016

United We Stand – Glass asks Amnesty International how their uniting of voices is bringing about remarkable results around the world AMNESTY International is one of the largest and most powerful bodies promo...

From the archive – Glass spends a day in Paris with the inimitable Audrey Tautou

Nicola Kavanagh

April 1, 2016

Culture, Feature, Film

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...

Thinking things right – Glass talks to Sara Pantuliano of the Overseas Development Institute

Nicola Kavanagh

January 29, 2016

Archive, Feature, Human Rights

Thinking things right – Glass learns about the new role of aid in the modern era, better methods for its delivery and how hair extensions are giving subjugated women their dignity back Within two minutes of ...

Glass talks to Jamileh Kamran – the designer behind some of Hillary Clinton’s defining fashion moments

Nicola Kavanagh

January 26, 2016

Fashion, Feature

Dressed for success – As Hillary Clinton makes her bid for president, Glass meets Jamileh Kamran, the designer behind some of her defining fashion moments Few people have heard of Little Rock, Arkansas, even...

Glass meets one of the most exciting young actors in Hollywood – Jena Malone

Nicola Kavanagh

January 8, 2016

Don't Miss: Film, Feature, Glass Talents

Jena Malone – On a sweltering LA day, Glass meets one of the most exciting young actors in Hollywood Jena Malone is like a rare bird that appears sporadically enough to keep people enchanted by her, yet not so...

Glass meets actor and producer Michaela Conlin, star of US hit TV show Bones

Nicola Kavanagh

December 10, 2015

Cinema, Feature, Television

Few can boast a lifetime of doing what they love and following their greatest passion and actor and producer Michaela Conlin, star of Fox’s hit television show Bones, is one of those few. From the humble and ad...

Glass interviews Silvia Venturini Fendi – creative director of Fendi

Nicola Kavanagh

November 10, 2015

Fashion, Feature

Fendi – A Design for life: Silvia Venturini Fendi talks Glass through the inimitable experience of growing up in one of the ultimate Italian success stories On hearing the name Fendi, one immediately conjure...

Power and grace – Glass meets German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott one of the youngest and most prodigious classical musicians of our time

Nicola Kavanagh

October 23, 2015

Culture, Music

Power and grace – Glass meets German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott one of the youngest and most prodigious classical musicians of our time Alice Sara Ott has become one of the youngest and most ...

Moments in time

Nicola Kavanagh

October 2, 2015

Archive, Art, Feature, Photography

Twice president of Magnum, who died in June this year, photographer Charles Harbutt talks us through an extraordinary career and its seminal moments. Glass celebrates the career of this eminent image maker J...

NYFW SS16: Tommy Hilfiger

Nicola Kavanagh

September 16, 2015

Fashion Shows, News

The patriarch of American fashion, Tommy Hilfiger, took a rare step away from his beloved red, white and blue this season to present a more tropical and exotic interpretation of the all-American girl. The sunn...

Power play

Nicola Kavanagh

September 11, 2015

Archive, Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

“The purpose of playing,” says Hamlet, “Is, to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” And so it is...

The Glass library

Nicola Kavanagh

September 9, 2015

Books, Feature

“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...

The outsider

Nicola Kavanagh

August 21, 2015

Archive, Don't Miss: Film, Feature

On a scorching August morning in Biarritz, France’s surfer paradise South West coast, the promenade is thronging with holidaymakers as they idle their way to the beach. The Glass shoot team, consisting of a ph...

Mixing business with pleasure

Nicola Kavanagh

August 12, 2015

Culture of Commerce, Dining, Feature

According to surveys, between 55 per cent and 63 per cent of people want to set up their own business. But with 50 per cent of small companies failing in the first year, how do you guarantee your business’s sur...

LA stargazing

Nicola Kavanagh

July 6, 2015

America, California, Culture, Feature

As you pull up to the Chamberlain West Hollywood in LA it is easy to feel that you might have come to the wrong address. Having researched ahead of my trip on the hotel’s website and seen glamorous interiors, a...

Soaking up the je ne sais quoi

Nicola Kavanagh

July 1, 2015

Europe, Feature, Paris, Travel

Parisian chic – that certain je ne sais quoi that many of us Brits like to try to absorb on long weekends across the channel – is an elusive attribute. There are places in the city, however, where the essence o...

A secret sanctuary

Nicola Kavanagh

June 22, 2015

Europe, Feature, Paris

The 16th arrondisement in Paris, much like New York’s Upper East Side or London’s Knightsbridge, is a district synonymous with affluence and prestige. It is also the largest, with the grand Palais de Chaill...

LFW AW15: Burberry Prorsum

Nicola Kavanagh

February 24, 2015

News

How many times can you reinvent a Burberry trench coat? If your name is Christopher Bailey, the answer is ‘infinitely’. Season after season Burberry’s maverick Creative Director has found ever more imaginative ...

A little out of the ordinary – Glass stays at L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche

Nicola Kavanagh

January 12, 2015

Culture, Europe, Feature, Paris, Travel

A little out of the ordinary – Glass stays at L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche The charming and petite L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche (Left Bank) is one of the last vestiges of a bohemian and artistic society ...

PFW SS15: Issey Miyake

Nicola Kavanagh

September 27, 2014

Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Glass Models, News

Issey Miyake is one of those houses that quietly smiles to itself while weaving away dreams of its own fancy and remaining absolutely unphased by passing trends and fickle social mores. The house has always ref...

PFW SS15: Dior

Nicola Kavanagh

September 27, 2014

News

If you’re ever running late to a Dior show and are not sure where to go, just look for the enormous crowd clogging up Rue de Rivoli and listen for the angry horns of drivers who can’t move for all the high-heel...

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